Show off the Design of your Character's Bedroom!

[Jelw]

Recently I've been working on designing my protagonist's house and bedroom and was curious to see what other people have done for their own characters! What did all of you do to give your character's living space a unique feel? Any tips?
Show it off!

[joannekwan]

Here's Beau's studio apartment.

He doesn't have much in terms of stuff, he's a minimal person overall. Since there isn't much room to keep things, he gets by with only a few good books and knick-knacks with sentimental value. Can't live without a nice tv though.

Tips: Think of what your characters like, what they would like having/collecting. And have fun with it!

[DynamoToon]

Colors don't have homes. They just wander from one area in the Nothingness to the next.

[Caelestie]

That is drasil's bedroom but she just found a random house to live in a very short while. It's completely wasted! It is as pleasant as her! she isn't in the image for you ask!

[vocaloidno1fan]

yay nothingness! XD
(im in the process of creating my main character's bedroom... and the room of another character that she's gonna be in for the majority of the story... owo" but this is actually a cool idea! sooooo..... il post it soon :3 lulz)

[Cielle]

I don't have the designs for the bedroom of my characters in my main comic Reus since no one will see it for quite some time, but I do have a rough plan of the apartment layout for a new comic I'm developing right now (and plan to release in the fall~~ woo hoo). The apartment is the main setting/is generally really important, so it was one of the first things I did. I mean, the title is the apartment number (42h). It's a lot harder to plan an apartment than I thought. My respect for architects has increased by a lot! I've also designed the front door.

[joannekwan]

I did the same thing for Tula's place in Demon House. I used this site called Planner 5d, it's free and it works a little like Sims.

[Cielle]

oh my gosh! This is awesome! I'm definitely going to have to check it out~~ Thanks for sharing!

[AnnaLandin]

Well, uh, Masahiro doesn't really have a bedroom in Grassblades, being the filthy, rootless vagabond that he is. But he did spend the night here at one point:

It's a tumble-down shack that doubles as a roadside shrine. It probably smells like mold and incontinent cats.

[TheKao]

Did a house tour of my OC once on tumblr:

It was a great way for me to practice perspective while also figuring how their house looked like. My character was pretty modern and kept things simple.

[getsuart]

I did a lot of bedrooms, mostly when I'm bored or I need it. I try to concentrate on their favourites activities and show their personality into it. For example, I'm a drawing person AND a messy one, so it's most likely to have millions on pen and notebooks.
But because I'm hurt right now, there are millions of bandages and balms. So I'm thinking about what the character needs and what would it be like.

Echo's bedroom is basically showed here :

Really tiny bedroom, they unlocked another part of the castle for her, near her bed, so she can putmost of her and her father's things in it. You can't see it, but Echo loves blue, so there are mostly blue in the room. And yellow + pink, because she likes it too. Must go to the other side of the corridor to go to the bathroom.

Her dad's bedroom in the past (minus the cradle now, and some other things changed) :

Bigger than Echo's one (we only see one side on this panel), contains a bed for two persons, lot of furnishers and also plants and boards. Also there's the insignia of Taranis, because he's a proud man. bright colors. Also got personal bathroom.

Abel's bedroom (I don't even think I will need it but I drew it because I was bored) :

Clean with some decorations, lot of swords everywhere, hides a sword under his pillow. Bright carpet with the insignia of Taranis, but otherwise, he likes red, so some parts are red, like the drapes. Also got personal bathroom.

Hrodland's bedroom :

Small but comfy, lot of contracts and weapons everywhere, messy but comfortable. He likes to relax in there, so there might be some tea around. Hisbed is composed of a light covering and pillows. Lot of pillows. The interior has wood on the walls. Brown and blue. He got two insignias on the walls, one of Taranis, and one of Teutates. Also got personal bathroom.

there you go, for most of the characters.

[ashriott]

I don't have much bedroom scenes @_@ more to come though... here's all I have, and it's pretty normal and boring:

[Silerna]

My characters only show up in their living rooms/ backyard xD

[insomniascrawl]

Wow! This is great, thanks for the link, will definitely be using this site.

[elixiadragmire]

Heres what Teb's looks likes,

the original concept:

and here in the comic:

as you can see, tidy but cluttered. star and moon motifs everywhere and other arcane and fey fancies

[CPY]

This is Zill's apartment.
It's really small and squeezy.

[Kamikaze]

Environments that people live in tell us a lot about who they are. In Kamikaze our lead characters room is messy as heck, but has a lot of light, and a great view of the city with easy access to the rooftops where she does most of her running for her job as a courier. On the wall she has drawings of maps around the local streets and alleyways that she updates and changes as paths open up or close.

We use SketchUp to create our backgrounds and creating Markesha and Toshi's apartment we really needed to keep things minimalistic and small. They don't live in a big place, so once things shake up in the story that space has to feel even smaller. Plus we wanted it to be small so it would feel like Markesha's really trapped. Though later on we needed it to look sort of impressive, so mys husband framed it so the background would look much larger than it actually is. Markesha's bedroom is quite small, not much bigger than a long walk in closet. There's no room for a bed, so she's got a hammock.

Here's a model of Markesha's room:

You can see Markesha's room in full color in this page from act 2.

[Kayke]

I love Love LOVE designing bedrooms for my characters, I feel like it's such a good way to show off their personalities.

In the most recent chapter of my comic I got to draw Sam's room for the first time.

I wanted her room to be soft colors, since it's been her bedroom since she was a kid, but also have a lot of her own decorations around.

I also wanted it to contrast her brother Alex's room, which is a messy unfinished basement with miss-matched furniture (including an ugly plaid futon that he probably found on the curb).

I think the biggest part of making a room feel personal is putting a lot of stuff in it. Think about what your character would need/use on the day to day and what would be important enough to them that they would want to display it.