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!