So this is supposed to be a single, long image, but Tumblr’s compression effectively ruins it

So this is supposed to be a single, long image, but Tumblr’s compression effectively ruins it that way.  See the looooong version over here!

I’ve always wanted to try doing a large, sequential piece with abundant detail, so sometime last year I started sketching this out.  I was going loosely on significant events of Equestrian history starting from the Pillars, up until Twilight’s fateful move to Ponyville.  While working on it, season 9 was confirmed to be FiM’s last, and it took on a bit of a series tribute aspect as well.  FiM has been a source of fun, inspiration and artistic development! :D

This was fun to make - little by little over several months - while also being a test of endurance.  I’m generally happy with how it came out, though I feel that the Pillars’ area is overly dense in comparison to the rest of it.  I started from the bottom, so this didn’t really occur to me until much later.  I tried rearranging it to create more space, but was somewhat thwarted by having reached the canvas size limit in Illustrator! (I didn’t know there was one; Adobe, why?)  Illustrator also started exhibiting some buggy behavior when the file got large.  So I decided it was finished!