Are there any tutorials around showing how to draw furniture and interior scenes?

Drawing interior scenes needs a deep knowledge of perspective drawing.
To me it seems a better idea to model such in blender in 3D.
Even if you want to have a 2D vector as a final result, starting with blender would help you choosing the right viewpoint, help the placement of the furniture and with some shadow direction.

Thanks much, I'll have to check that out.

I guess it depends on either your drawing style, or the style you want for the drawing. If you want to realistically draw furniture, like in a photo (photorealism) it will take advanced Inkscape skills. But for example, if you're drawing a cartoon, the furniture would be very simplified, right? Maybe even comical? What would be your goal in drawing interior scenes?

I've not seen any. And to be honest you probably need to be at least at an intermediate level of Inkscape to learn Blender, well, maybe that's just me, lol. I only tried Blender once, need to try again at some point.
If all else fails, go to a popular microstock site that sells illustrations and search for whatever furniture, at least that will give you some idea of what you can achieve for yourself in Inkscape. I think I'd only do clipart in furniture, but that's me (and I do clipart anyway).
If you do find some tuts, please share here. thanks and good luck.
dee

I had in mind realistic type of drawings that can be used as a backdrop for artists to show how their paintings will look in a room setting. I once came across a room scene drawn with Inkscape on flickr so It's definitely possible, I'm surprised that I don't see that type of inkscape artwork made. If I ever get good enough that's something I would like to do.

I would think there must be so many variables in just the lighting in any one room alone, just between day and night, and not to mention which lamps might be switched on or off, or which curtains might be open or closed, to make such a scenario workable. And that's not to mention color schemes (bazillions), furniture styles, types, and arrangement, as well as design tastes. And that's all for just a living room, for example. I assume someone might want to buy artwork for their bedroom, and who knows, maybe kitchen or bathroom?

I'm thinking that might better be approached using photos of rooms. You could much more conceivabley make a collection of photos under different conditions, than draw them! But even so, you'd still have to consider scale and angle or direction. Will you want a photo from the first point where someone enters the room? Let's say that's 7 yards/meters from where the painting will hang, and fortunately, directly in front of it. But what if there's another entrance to the room, which happens to be only 1 yard away from where the painting will hand, and at a different angle? If an artist were concerned about how a painting looks in a certain room, wouldn't an artist want to consider how their painting looks from 5 yards away, as well as from 1 yard away, as well as from any point in the room?

But more than that, I think that most artists probably don't even care how their painting would look in this room or that room. Isn't that part up to the buyer? One person might buy a painting that they think will look great in their livingroom. But the next person might think it looks awful, in the very same living room. I think most artists are just happy to sell their work, no matter how it might be used. I don't think they would refuse to sell a painting if they didn't like where they buyer was going to hang it.

Minky - ah, great idea!
Funny, I can totally understand what Brynn is saying, however, I'm also an acrylic artist (did that first), and so many of us were trying to find exactly what you are saying, a living room backdrop.

Brynn, fyi - it's not about the lighting, what artists need is just a backdrop to show how artwork would appear in various living room settings - something that allows the artwork to stand out - so it can be sold. Buyers want to know how it will look on their wall, what size is it in relation to the sofa - is it overpowering? are the colors going to blend in, etc - so what's needed are walls of different colors - furniture of various styles and colors, various types - from ritzy for fancy artwork, to basic middle class sofas....
I think it's a bit overwhelming to take on honestly.
I have seen sites that have 2D furniture for this purpose, but that was so you can re-arrange your furniture, vs see how it will look. To be honest, I was thinking that photos of furniture might work better - commercially, you couldn't use it unless you get the manuf. permission I would think. Hmm, this seems like a huge undertaking - maybe why there's still a need for it. Or, maybe you could do a bitmap trace after taking a photo, then re-work it a bit to make it 'your own'.
good luck, can't wait to see the outcome if you ever take this on.

I would use blender for that purpose all the way.
Think about the benefits:
you can change the lights with no problem, you can change the view any time, you can even create short animations.
While on the other hand, inkscape's 2D vector would be good for printing hi-resolution images, which you don't need.
The images you want to put into the scenery need to look good in big, not the preview, so screen-resolution images are good enough in my opinion.

You're right on Dee, I'm an artist too (acrylic, watercolor, pen and ink), there is a big demand for these types of photos among artists who sell their work online. Anyway I'm nowhere close to doing anything like that, I was just thinking about some of the amazing inkscape art people do and wondered why there doesn't seem to be an interest in interiors.

Well, then forget lighting (although I think that would be more important than anything else). I still don't think you could ever create enough "backdrop" images to account for all the shapes and arrangements of furniture that your potential customers might have. It seems to me that artists create art as self expression. Creating art that fits on one certain wall in one certain color, with one particular set of furniture, in one particular arrangement, in one particular room, seems crazy to me.

Maybe Dee or minky could show me an example where someone has backdrops to sell their paintings?

It's just a marketing prop. It isn't suppose to be an aid to help buyers decide which painting will look better in their home nor is it to help artists decide what or how to paint. Here's an example of someone using it on their webpage:

doghousepetportraits.com/Doghouse_Pet_Portraits/Commission_Custom.html

Well, I still don't get it. But seeing an example, I'd say go for photos. Then you could always "Inkscape-shop" the artwork onto the photo!

Thanks for sharing second link is not working.