S17 - My Workspace (Patreon)

So, this is the super cute building I've been working in for the past couple months. It's a converted warehouse in Glasgow's East End. It's run by one of the many nonprofit arts organizations in Scotland that strive to maintain at-cost work spaces for artists of all types.

My little windowless cave is a bit too tight to photograph well, but the perfect size for drawing in! Studio 17--I think I get a discount because my ceiling is about half an inch taller than I am.

The back wall is mostly reference materials, archived drawings, boxes of my comics and shipping materials. I had to leave most of my comics back in California (sorry mom!) when we moved overseas, so I've only got a small library of manga in my library at work: some CLAMP, Hirohiko Araki, Takeshi Obata, Makimura Satoru, Naoki Urasawa, Ryoichi Ikegami and Yukito Kishiro.

I've also got the originals of half of Alpha Flag and O-Type nicely bindered up to refer back to, as well as lots of tiny boxes stuffed with Terminal Hair drawings.

In the workspace-facing side of the studio, I've got two desks. Lately I've been drawing on A5 paper and compositing the sketches onto print-sized digital pages to be printed at A3 size. That also means that I end up with stacks and stacks of little drawings and sketches that have mostly been living on the far desk, either waiting to be scanned, or archived.

I've got all of my pens, brushes, copics, watercolors in the drawers.

Also, lots of blankets for when it gets cold.

Jon