Studio Tour Studio Tour! (Patreon)

Look I'm not an early adopter of anything so I know I'm four days late to this party, but it's Friday so I think today's a better Studio Tour Party day anyway. Here's my studio!

I sat in that office chair as-is for YEARS before I bothered to replace the ripped-up seat with some red fabric. It took me eleven years and twenty minutes to fix it. It is SO EASY to fix one of those chairs, YouTube it!!

The little red dot light turns on when your pencil has reached peak sharpness! :o

PS you can TOTALLY sharpen colored pencils in an electric sharpener - even wax-based ones - you just need to run a stick of graphite in there once in awhile to clean the wax off the blades.

I use that scale to measure all of your packages. :) (The date stamp wasn't a sign for anything deep, it was just a sign that I should buy it.)

Not pictured: the daily to-do lists that I write out for every single day of the week. Sometimes twice when I need to change the order of my to-dos.

Protip: On your to-do lists, put stars next to the things you HAVE to do that you're putting off, and hearts around anything that you enjoy doing, or that affects someone you love. I put hearts around <3 plants <3 and <3 mail <3 because I love watering the plants and walking to the post office. 

I also put hearts around <3 Ellie <3 when it's a day that she needs to get medication. I hate doing it, but makes her feel better. 

That pile of Patreon Surprise is on top of my Epson Perfection V600 scanner, the best reasonably-priced scanner for watercolors and colored pencils, imo.

Pip and Ellie usually spend the day with me in that brown chair and on the rug in front of it, or wherever there's a sunbeam. 

You can tell I vacuumed because there are no cats in these pictures. Vacuum Cleaner is their one and only shared nemesis.

The scrap paper thing is like, my favorite trick! I put opened envelopes and any used paper with plain backs in there, and that's what I use to sketch out ideas. I'm not afraid to use it because it's trash paper anyway, so I get a lot more ideas down, it's great!

Anyway that's my studio, that's where I live every day. Hope you enjoyed all these little detailed photos! (I hit the publish button before proofreading, in case you're wondering why you got two notifications! I'M NOT YELLING I'm just clumsy.)