My work space can usually be any quiet, comfortable spot (access to hot beverages and a flat surface preferable) where I can hole up with my laptop, headphones, and sketchbook for long hours at a time. I value portable tools; over the years, between being an off-campus college student on a very residential campus, and commuting around a city, it always helped to be able to work wherever I could catch some spare time. While I appreciate the idea of a dedicated work space, and did regularly use a studio space during part of my time at grad school ... ultimately it hasn't seemed necessary. I can usually "create" that sense of a work space with the right elements and tools.
I greatly prefer cafes for doing things like writing and brainstorming; something about the public, bustling space is energizing (without being too distracting, since the other patrons are generally strangers and I can be alone in the crowd). I like drawing in them sometimes too, although sometimes to properly get into the kind of groove where I can work for hours (comics take so long!), I'm more comfortable in my own home, with podfic or a tv show marathoning in the background. And sometimes I need to take a lot of embarrassing reference photos of myself, so that requires privacy! ;)
Maybe I'll post a picture of my favorite cafe later (I've been drawing there off and on for twelve years!) I think I'm going there to get a few things done after work. Meanwhile, I've just moved into a new apartment, so I don't have my home workspace set up yet. I inherited a small drawing table (the kind that tilts diagonally) from a classmate when I moved back down from Vermont. I've never used one before, but I want to give it a try, because I have a tendency to hunch too much! I have it set up right against the back window of my little bedroom, which gets gorgeous afternoon light and looks out onto the neighbors' pretty backyard. I'll hang a selection of original artwork (mostly by friends) right above it and prop my laptop nearby.
... but I need a desk chair, so for now I've been working on my bed, just spreading everything out over the comforter. Laptop, sketchbook, Bristol, pens & pencils, reference materials, etc etc, and a mug of tea.
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Date: December 2nd, 2013 08:08 pm (UTC)I greatly prefer cafes for doing things like writing and brainstorming; something about the public, bustling space is energizing (without being too distracting, since the other patrons are generally strangers and I can be alone in the crowd). I like drawing in them sometimes too, although sometimes to properly get into the kind of groove where I can work for hours (comics take so long!), I'm more comfortable in my own home, with podfic or a tv show marathoning in the background. And sometimes I need to take a lot of embarrassing reference photos of myself, so that requires privacy! ;)
Maybe I'll post a picture of my favorite cafe later (I've been drawing there off and on for twelve years!) I think I'm going there to get a few things done after work. Meanwhile, I've just moved into a new apartment, so I don't have my home workspace set up yet. I inherited a small drawing table (the kind that tilts diagonally) from a classmate when I moved back down from Vermont. I've never used one before, but I want to give it a try, because I have a tendency to hunch too much! I have it set up right against the back window of my little bedroom, which gets gorgeous afternoon light and looks out onto the neighbors' pretty backyard. I'll hang a selection of original artwork (mostly by friends) right above it and prop my laptop nearby.
... but I need a desk chair, so for now I've been working on my bed, just spreading everything out over the comforter. Laptop, sketchbook, Bristol, pens & pencils, reference materials, etc etc, and a mug of tea.