Processfest Day 1

[jjtaylor]

It's the first day of processfest ! Share your creative process.

Today's prompt: Where do you create? What does your work space look like?

Tell us all the details. Take pictures if you'd like. And I don't want to hear any diminishing comments like "It's just a desk" or "It's just my computer." It's not JUST anything. It's yours, and we are hungry creators who want to know everything about how other creators work. Have more than one creative space? Share them all!



To participate, share your contribution in the prompt post for the day, and if you'd like, link back to this community in your own space.

What you want to share doesn't fit the prompt? Don't worry, link to it anyway! All that matters in the end is that we keep talking about how we do what we do - and that we keep creating.

Comments

[reflectedeve]

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.

[jjtaylor]

Yay portability!