Timelapse Painting Videos in 2024
2024 was a year of change. I moved country and started a new job. I think I couldn't produce as many graphics as I had hoped for various reasons, but I still created a good number of drawings. Most importantly, I learned to love color limitations and leverage them. Most importantly, I learned to love color limitations and leverage them.
Looking for other years? Check out my 2025 timelapse videos or browse through my 2022 and 2023 timelapses.
Here are the timelapse videos of my creations from 2024.
December 2024
How Hippie Met Nessie
One of the most important lessons I learned about drawing is this: just keep drawing until you actually finish the drawing. Early on, I made a sketch of a hippie sitting on a toilet. And I wasn’t happy with it at all. But instead of discarding it, I kept going and added an extension to the scene. It didn’t necessarily make the drawing "better" in a technical sense, but it definitely made it more epic.
If you want the full story of how this unfolded and what I took away from it, I wrote about the whole process here: How Hippie Met Nessie: Turning Two Boring Drawings Into A Cr*ppy Big One
Coding Counter Culture
In this graphic, I'm trying to draw determination in a coder as poster art for the 38th Chaos Communication Congress. This was a last-ditch attempt to get a ticket and make it to Hamburg. In the end, it didn't work out. I had used my learnings about limited colors and I ended up really liking the piece.
In this drawing tutorial, I'll guide you step-by-step through creating a powerful, resolute female programmer in a style inspired by the bold, iconic imagery of socialist realism... and I'm using only six colors. Let's draw determination in the face of a coder.
Here's my full write-up: Coding Counter Culture: Attempting to Draw Determination in a Coder
Learning to Love Limitations
This next part shows one of my favorite creative moments from 2024... not because it's "perfect," but because of what finally clicked. I learned to truly love working with a restrained color palette, a lesson that was ingrained in me across my three visits to Evoke, where the pixel graphics competition always limited artists to just a handful of colors. Some palettes were ghastly, others inspiring, but all taught me something.
The first piece here is a reinterpretation of a Vallejo painting using only a few yellows and ochres, the moment when it all started to make sense for me. The second is a smaller, more playful study, a hand exercise to make sure I wasn't just thinking the lesson, but had truly learned to apply it.
If you want the full story and the thoughts behind these pieces, I wrote about it here: Boris Vallejo and the Pixel Art of the Demoscene
Drawings Used and Unused for the Evoke 2024 Demoparty
In this section you'll see the real-time creation of the graphics I made for Evoke 2024; from the drawings I submitted in both the Pixel Graphics and Freestyle Graphics competitions to a couple of other pieces that I started but ultimately decided not to enter.
If you're curious about my creative process, artistic decisions, and what went into (and out of) these pieces, check out the full breakdown in my article: Making Compo Graphics for the Evoke 2024 Demoparty