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Description I wanted to show you where I use most of my time. I have two tables together and this is where I sit and chat, draw, colour, paint, edit photographs, do homework and so on.

Full view please.

Here is what you see on the photograph:

1. My most beloved laptop, it's a customized Znote 6314W from Zepto, it burns warm so I have a cooler below it, but besides that it's very loyal.
2. An external hard disk to back up drawings, photographs, school work and so on.
3. My A6 Wacom Volito, it's not the best out there, but it was very cheap and at the time my old tablet had just given up on me.
4. My Artograph A3 Lightbox, I got this for Christmas when I was studying 3D Animation, since then I now only use it to outline my artwork.
5. Blank A4 and A5 cheap sketchbooks, always ready next to me.
6. Little square basket with my Canon PowerShot G7 camera in and various mess, also quite a few cords in there.
7. Sketchbooks, watercolour paper and books. Among others are a few books on anatomy, coloured pencils and other. There is also a few pens I use for school work stashed in there and 3 small canvases.
8. Various coloured pens, thin and thick. Used for school work.
9. Mixed pens, pencils and various things like that.
10. The pencils, pens and brushes I use the most. In front of it is Liquid Masking Film, a cheap tube of Titanium White Acrylic paint, and some Letraset Promarkers.
11. 24 half pan Rembrandt watercolours, a sheet I've made where I've tested the colours and two other sets of watercolour.
12. Faber-Castell PITT Artist pen brush box with 48 pens. These are so lovely and waterproof!
13 Wooden box I've bought separately made for candle holders; it stores 72 Derwent Watercolour pencils.
14. A All-in-One printer from Dell, scans, copies, prints and also does photo prints well. It recently started striking on my scans though. On top of it is a pile of my latest drawings.
15. Here I should be able to store a lot of stuff, but it is one big mess which I keep delaying to sort out
16. School information, schedule and other things hanging here.
17. I have a drawing of a man with correct anatomy, then I have Orangutan Adoption papers , it's a little Orangutan in Borneo I support with money each month. Next to that I have two photos of the cutest 3 year old named Rasmus, which isn't biologically my nephew but it feels like it. There is also a little card with a print of White Lotus SP21 by ^ArtisticAunJuli , I got this when I received these lovely earrings.
18. Various teddies, among others a racoon, giraffe, wombat, platypus, Tasmanian devil, ostrich and others. I like to collect quite different teddies.
19. Two of my own photographs which I got printed in large scale. See the Lion here and the Tigers here .
20. I went to town one day and saw this fantastic red metal telephone booth in a display window. I went inside and asked if it was possible to buy them when they made a new display, and it was! I use it to store candy, makeup and other things in. I love unique things.
21. WWF calendar showing the photograph of July, 2008. It's a little arctic fox.
22. My precious bin!
23. Here is my TV so I can always watch it while I chat with people, ha ha. Next to it out of sight from the photograph is a big window/door. It brings in a lot of light and I can also sit all day and find inspiration by looking out in our little garden and at all the trees.

EDIT: Hurrah! Today I cleaned up in nr. 15, everything is in its right place.

The left side: in the 1st drawer I have sketchbooks, 2nd drawer there is lined paper for school, 3rd drawer got printing paper, 4th drawer is filled with special high end photo printing paper and various other stuff to print on, 5th drawer has all my coloured paper and 6th drawer got coloured cardboard.

The right side: in the 1st drawer I have a mix of pens, pencils, erasers and other stuff like that, 2nd drawer I have red and blue pencils, some art set boxes with coal and things that I wanted to learn to work with, but never got around to. 3rd drawer is oil crayons, cheap pastels and such, 4th drawer holds plastic pockets I use a lot for school, 5th drawer is plastic pockets with holes on the side so they fit into a
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Comments: 15

LisaMarieCosplay [2008-08-28 10:04:45 +0000 UTC]

Wow. I envy your desk. I'm currently sat on the floor in front of a desk less than a metre long! xD

But I can sympathise with the massive load of wires, at least the majority of them are white and blend with the wall. Hehe.

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Aakerman In reply to LisaMarieCosplay [2008-08-28 10:17:26 +0000 UTC]

Haha, ack. Must be a little frustrating.
This is really the best in my room, the rest of this place is awful, but I love my desk.

The wires... Well yeah, I don't notice those that are visible on this photo much (on the floor), but there is a LOT of them behind the laptop and it is just awful I try to hide them.

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Elc55 [2008-08-16 19:20:12 +0000 UTC]

I love your desk! The lamp reminds me of the Pixar one lol. Awesome Awesome Awesome

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Aakerman In reply to Elc55 [2008-08-16 19:59:35 +0000 UTC]

Thanks and thanks for the fave too

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Elc55 In reply to Aakerman [2008-08-16 21:31:07 +0000 UTC]

No problem.

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Feathers-of-Love [2008-08-14 22:43:23 +0000 UTC]

I want your desk D:

My desk is so small - and yours is really workable. And sun. I love the sun.

And it is so neat! Mine was neat a few days ago. Now I even have problems finding it.

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Aakerman In reply to Feathers-of-Love [2008-08-14 22:54:34 +0000 UTC]

Haha I do enjoy my desk a lot If it helps a bit, it isn't neat at all anymore I just tried to tidy it up a bit, but I gave up!

Yeah, it's very nice with the window Though at the moment only gray light is coming in, it's quite rainy and cold outside.

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Feathers-of-Love In reply to Aakerman [2008-08-16 01:14:40 +0000 UTC]

It seems as if all the Scandinavian countries have been robbed of their well-deserved summer sun as of late. It is quite tragic.

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Aakerman In reply to Feathers-of-Love [2008-08-16 11:00:37 +0000 UTC]

It seems like it yep,

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smygba [2008-07-21 23:10:02 +0000 UTC]

I started drawing digitally using a A6 Wacom Volito. If it wasn't for the fact it was so difficult compared to larger or better versions, I'd never have had the kind of control that I do now using one. I spent 5-6 Months learning with that tool, and its why I can draw way better digitally than I would've.

You have a way cooler and nicer set up than me.

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Aakerman In reply to smygba [2008-07-21 23:20:16 +0000 UTC]

I'm very happy to hear that, cause I do find it a bit hard to control.
But that at least gives me some hope, haha.

I am very fond of my set up, I guess I am sort of girl'ish about it, it all has it's own space and has to look neat and all this. Haha. I'm quite a perfectionist all the way.

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smygba In reply to Aakerman [2008-07-21 23:28:07 +0000 UTC]

Make sure you Wacom tablet is ratio calibrated to the screen! A lot of people don't read the manuals and so they get the 1:1 ratio vertically, but not horizontally. There's a lot of settings in Control Panel in Windows that help you setup the tablet better for you. Once I did that, things got a lot easier.

Doing drills and tracing using layers in Photoshop helped me get better too with my tablet. It did take some time, but if you ever get a Graphire or Intuos later on, or just a bigger tablet and you can draw on one of these, it, it will be so easy.

Tools help the artist, but a real artist can make art with a pudding stick.

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Aakerman In reply to smygba [2008-07-21 23:31:13 +0000 UTC]

Mine didn't come with a manual, ack, but thanks for telling me. I will surely check if my settings are correct and then I'll go hide in a corner if they aren't. Haha
I'm very happy that you share your tips and tricks with me, thanks a lot I so appreciate it.

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smygba In reply to Aakerman [2008-07-22 00:00:21 +0000 UTC]

Mines didn't come with a paper manual either. Check the CD/WebSite. Probably the reason people don't read them!

You're welcome. I'm glad you found them helpful.

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portheiusJ [2008-07-12 18:06:49 +0000 UTC]

Thats such a great desk, sunlight and all... count me jealous...

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