This is the first part of a series which show how I created the painting “Uphill Battle”. Most of the time lapse runs at roughly 60x speed, however I had to speed it up to 90x and eventually to 120x in some later parts of the series in order to fit all of the video into five youtube clips. Seeing how the entire drawing and painting process took me 56 hours (real time) I still ended up with 56 minutes of video even though I speed it up to 60x (1 minute of video is equivalent of 1 hour in real time). Ideally I would have fitted it all into one video for convenience but it gets very difficult to see what I’m actually doing once you go above 60x.

The different parts are in chronological order, however they are also split up thematically (sort of). The first part shows the “brainstorming” or sketching phase which slowly turns into detail rendering.

Continued in part 2.