FINALLY I can drop the news :’D For the past 6 months all of my work has been shrouded in mystery, but now I can finally show what I’ve been working on for so long! I found a publisher for my Garden Dragon book and we’ve been working like crazy to expand it to a solid 80-pages long children’s book!
You can now order it ONLINE by following the LINK HERE!
Ok so what is this book all about?
I created a world in which tiny dragons camouflage themselves as flowers in your garden! Every garden dragon species has a specific plant that they grow and inhabit. Because of this, they are dependent on the pollination of their plants by bees, which is why these dragons have sworn to protect them from any harm.
This book is meant to let children’s imagination run wild and make them eager to explore the nature around them. It teaches just how valuable bees are for our planet and what you can do to give them a helping hand.
So does this mean…?
Im a full-time author and illustrator now :D Right now we’re working on getting this book translated so you’ll be able to order it in ENGLISH in spring 2018!
All of my german followers can now already order the book on hamburgparadies.de
I am so excited to finally be able to share these news with all of you.
I still cant believe I’ve actually published my own book and now we’re working on turning it into a franchise! More things are to come in the future and from now on I’ll be able to keep you guys updated. Thank you for all the support and patience during these past 6 months in which I had to remain silent!
Hey everybody! I know its been a very long time, but I wanted to let you all know what I’ve been up to! After my last post about a year ago, I had been working on my portfolio to get an internship in the US. However, when that didn’t work out for me (and honestly, at this point Im really thankful that it DIDN’T), I decided to look for a publisher for the children’s book I created as my graduation project in graphic design. Then things just went WILD. Before I knew it, I found a publisher and now I work as a freelance Illustrator and Author. Its INCREDIBLE :’D I still have to get used to this new life, but I couldn’t be happier! I get to write my own stories and watch my little world of garden dragons slowly come to life!
Also I wanted to apologize for being inactive for so long. So many things have happened and the longer I stayed inactive, the more scared I got on checking on this blog and probably getting overwhelmed by messages of people complaining about my inactivity :’D
But when I finally checked, none of you actually sent complaints...which was quiet a relief, thanks a ton for that <33 Truth be told I’ve grown very nostalgic over the last few days. I’ve been going through this entire blog, remembering the great times I had with Ayasha and with this fantastic community. And the little stories I shared here still hold up surprisingly well! Ayasha will always hold a very special place in my heart. She made me rediscover my love for writing, and if it wouldn’t have been for her, I would’ve never gained this loving community that still follows me over my art blog!
Speaking of community, if you’re interested in my general art and livestreams, I actually have a discord server now where I keep everybody updated!
You can join us by clicking on the invite HERE.
(I hope u like pokemon because I get very passionate about it over there)
So yeah, this is what happened and why it took me so long to come back to this blog. MLP has changed quiet a lot. I still watch it, but I dont really hold the same enthusiasm for it anymore. But that doesnt change that I still love the characters I created here, and that I still care about the stories I wanted to tell.
Ayasha will never really die. I dont want her to die. I may not find the time to revive this blog, but I want to revive her somehow, someday, if its through a fanfiction or an entirely new unique concept. I miss her and I know a lot of you miss her too. Thank you all so much for your everlasting support, watching me grow from an insecure teen into a confident* artist <3
I hope I’ll get to see some of you on my new server or on another blog of mine for the original content I now create, or the fanart I still do in my free time :)
Wishing you all the best,
~Eleanor
art blog | twitter | discord | twitch
((*okay SOMEWHAT confident. on a good day. I dont know if there was ever an artist who was confident about their work 100% of the time :DD))
INKTOBER 2017: Old friends
Actually I dont really have the time for Inktober this year but SCREW IT, still gonna try! I thought about it and my theme for this year would be “Friends”, which means I’d draw old and new OCs, friend’s OCs or other fictional characters I just love and adore. Let’s see how far I’ll come!
Starting Inktober with an old MLP OC of mine called “Ayasha”.
100 Cookies to everyone who remembers this character, it means you’ve probably been following me for around 3-4 years on multiple blogs and I love u, thank u for sticking around for all this time <33
(Seriously though, this gives me real flashbacks to 2011, 2012, and the feeling of community that horse tumblr had. It was pretty magical, and events like this that everyone seems to be invested in are rare these days. And it couldn’t have started from a more deserving story thing. It’s 4am and words are hard.)
Short description for the pictures above: These (originally three) illustrations were supposed to quickly visualize how Ayashas parents met. They were both quiet young and didnt know each other too well. After Copper Patch found out he was becoming a father he had to make a decision and decided to stay at Biscuits side. The third picture went missing. It pictured Copper bringing Biscuit a ring he forged as a gift. He was certain they’d be able to work things out and in the end they actually became a loving couple.
THE FOLLOWING is the first part of the script that was supposed to follow DIRECTLY after the LAST UPDATE I posted here on tumblr. To understand the following I RECOMMEND YOU to catch up on the beginning of the story arc by following this link
( “cursive" is Ayasha narrating the story.)
"I was born in Dodge Junction, long before the foundation of Appleloosa.
When I was young, the town was in its prime time. Farmers from near and far came to claim the fertile ground, ponies started growing a lot of vegetables. But most of the space was taken by cherry trees. It was a home for many earth ponies back then and a popular meeting point for gold diggers, just like my Dad. I don't want to tell the whole story of how my parents met, but to make it quick: I was kind of an accident that happened shortly after they got to know each other. And even tho they were quiet young, they decided to keep me and try to be the best parents they could.
And if you ask me, they succeeded. I don't know what I would've done without them. They are the most supportive and loving parents you could ever ask for."
We see Filly Ayasha walking from her room down the stairs into the kitchen. Its a great, open room in which Dining Room and Kitchen are directly connected. "Good morning Sweetie", her mom greets her, who seems to be baking at the kitchen counter.
"This is Biscuit Crisp, or how some like to call her "Bickie". Her family runs the best bakery in town and she is famous for her home-made cookies."
"Ready to taste my newest recipe?"
Eagerly Ayasha climbs on the chair next to her mom, ready to take a spoon of the delicious dough, as suddenly she halts and her eyes start to mysteriously spark. "But mom…you forgot the cinnamon!"
"Cinnamon…? But…Didn't I…"
Biscuit looks confused at the dough and takes the spoon she was originally going to give her daughter. The dough tastes sweet, but kinda dull.
Irritated she looks at her ingredients on the kitchen counter.
"Huh. You're right! How could I've possibly forgotten about the cinnamon…"
Still baffled, Biscuit Crisp continues to work on the dough while her Daughter jumps off the chair and picks up a little back pack Biscuit prepared for her.
"Its a miracle I didn't fatten up as a kid with all the treats my mom baked everyday."
The little Filly takes a look into the back pack. Its filled with all kinds of goodies for school: Apples, Cookies and Cherry Tarts. Happily she trots to the dining table, where her father has already taken a seat.
"My Dads name is Copper Patch. He grew up with gold-diggers and was a rolling stone before he met my mom. Now he works as a Blacksmith at home, but still travels to the mines every other day to look for the material he needs."
Ayasha takes a seat next to her Dad, who gently ruffles her hair and moves a bowl of cereal over to her.
"Excited for your first day of school?" he asks, as she pours the milk over her cornflakes"
"Mhm" the little Filly nods. "You are coming with us today, right?"
"Aah, I…I don't know about that sweetie…" A worried look crosses Coppers face.
"And why is that so?" Biscuit came over with a sharp look in her eyes. "I don't see a reason why you shouldn't come with us."
"Well, see, I have a big customer for a bunch of copper pots and ovenware and I…I…need some more copper for it and…" Copper Patch started to stutter. His eyes nervously wandered to the side, as his stare suddenly met the big disappointed eyes of his daughter. With a big sigh he lifts up his head and looks defeated into the eyes of his wife.
"Alright…My order can wait. Go get yourself ready, sweetie, we're leaving in a couple of minutes."
"You should've left me at home." The Patch-Family wanders through the streets of Dodge Junction, the Parents slowly falling behind as their Daughter eagerly trots in front of them on their way to school.
"What? Why would you want to miss out on our daughters school enrollment?"
"I don't want to miss out on it, Im fearing of what might happen if ponies get to see me with her! You know EXACTLY how ponies talk about me in this town. I don't want the same thing to happen to my Daughter."
"Copper, this town is your home now. You shouldn't be afraid of walking through these stress, ponies will pick up on it. Try to pull out as much self-confidence as you can." Copper turns his head away from his mare, starring at the ground in disbelief as they continue to walk to school.
"If you can't do it for yourself, then do it for HER. Just look at how eager she is."
Ayasha prances in front of her parents and looks excited as ever. Still with a worried look in his eyes, he can't help it but to smile at the little filly and pulls his head up to take on a confident pose. A bit uncertain he takes a side glance at Biscuit, who looks very pleased and lovingly nestles up against him as they walk.
"And don't forget: If anybody DARES to talk bad about my family behind my back, I am going to personally kick them to the moon."
"Oh I'd love to see that happen, Biscuit".
"We arrived at Dodge Junctions Elementary School. The area was crowded as the teachers greeted the new fillies and colts along with their parents in front of the school. As me and my family joined in, my new class teacher began checking her list and calling up names to see if everyone was present."
"BOWTY BLOSSOM."
A freckled filly with bright spring-green hair,light green coat, blue eyes and a bow in her hair trots over to the teacher and gets greeted by a couple of pupils. A few foals from second and third grade had volunteered to welcome the new first graders at their school and show them around. Ayasha recognized one of them. Under the elders, there was a yellow colt named Braeburn, who was only a year older than her. The Apples were very good friends with Biscuits Family, and so Braeburn and Ayasha had grown up to be early childhood friends.
Excited to see him, Ayasha joyfully waves her hoof at him, not noticing the judging stare coming from the side from Bowties father. He scans the filly, then looks at her Dad. Copper gives him a hard, warning look at which the Stallion only wrinkles his nose.
This is ridiculous. SO ridiculous, Copper thought to himself. He had a bad feeling about this. Not only did he have a bad reputation in the town for being a "dirty, straying gold miner", but he was also looked down on for his unusual coat. Apparently Ponies had never seen an Appaloosan Coat before with all its spots and patches, and it got treated like an Illness. Copper was an Outcast, and even the high status of Biscuits Family could not save his daughter from judgement.
Finally Ayasha got called by her Teacher.
"SPOTTIE STAR."
"PPFPFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"
(i drew this in the past 10 minutes because I simply had to. You’re welcome)
Suddenly Discord pops out of nowhere and appears in Ayashas room. Senbon jumps 10 meters high in shock as Discord bursts out in laughter and interrupts Ayashas Flashback.
"AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOUR NAME - YOUR nAME is…PFFFFFFFFFF SPOTTIE STAR AHAHAHAHAHA, SWEET CELESTIA, OH THIS IS TOO GOOD"
Calm and motionless, Ayasha lies on the floor with an unnerved look on her face, hoping for this to be over soon.
"Yes. Ayasha is not the name I was born with. It was a name that I earned as I left my old life behind and became a tribe member of the Buffalos."
Discord tries his best to keep in his laughter but fails miserably.
"PFFFFF your name is Spottie Star" he giggles.
"Discord."
"PPPFFFFBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…"
"Discord…"
The PROUD and WISE Shaman SPOTTIE the GREAT–"
"Discord PLEASE"
"ALRIGHT Alright, Im good now. See? No more laughing, go on with your story, just ignore me."
"…Have you been here listening to us the WHOLE TIME?" Senbon finally asks, still recovering from the shock of Discord appearing out of nowhere.
"Trust me Senbon, this isn't the first time he's done it. You get used to it." Ayasha answers her in a tired tone.
"Alright, where was I…"
"PFFFF–Spottie Star"
"DISCORD."
(( OK from THIS point on the rest of the script is an incomplete mess. Im actually feeling like rewriting and completing a few parts of the script, so I decided to make a cut here and continue as soon as possible. Oh my god I am not ending things on a cliffhanger again AM I? JESUS CHRIST ELEANOR DONT YOU DARE ))
I bet the script is FULL of typos and grammar errors, forgive me for that. Im also switching from past to present form sometimes, I have no idea why. As i said, its a mess, but I hope it was still a fun read xD Im still looking for the rest of my script to put the puzzle pieces together, if I dont find them, I will have to just summarize stuff up a bit so I wont be able to tell the rest of the story the way Im doing it here. I hope thats okay!
QUICK QUESTION: how would you guys like me to publish the script / my plot summaries? I DONT THINK you guys want a WHOLE WALL OF TEXT on your dashboards, I could upload some pics (If I HAVE some for the summaries that Im publishing) and put the text under a cut in form of a “read more”. You guys ok with that? There’ll be A LOT to read, just that you know!
Would it be possible to just get a rar file of it all? I really love your work and would like a folder devoted to it as reference and so.
HOLY MOLY that would be a REALLY HUGE FILE...I dont know if I could get EVERYTHING together, the files seem currently to be ALL OVER THE PLACE. I’d also have to refresh the watermark to my current URL, I think that may be a bit too much work right now, but I’ll see what I can do! For now Im gonna get some content prepared I’ll upload here on tumblr.
If there’s anything you’d specifically want to know about story and characters, let me know, I’ll be online for the rest of the evening to get stuff done!
I think I NEVER reblogged this to this blog and thats a real shame xD I know how much y’all loved seeing these two interacting with each other, maybe I find even more of something like this in my files...
OK I think its REALLY time for me to talk about this.
OK this is...this is REALLY hard to do, WOW.
As most of you know about almost a year ago I announced my GIANT HIATUS because of me having to work on my graduation project for over 6 months till March 2016. WELL, at the end of March I graduated and am now enjoying ENDLESS FREEDOM that I use to work on my portfolio to apply for an internship in the US at the end of summer.
SOOOO NATURALLY you’d think “Oh hey NICE I’ve got free time, I can work on Ayasha again!”, but I have to be honest...a LOT has changed during those past 6 months. My interest for MLP slowly faded as I worked on my own original concepts and new characters...It was hard to admit to myself that I kind of lost the motivation to work on Ayasha any longer. Mostly because I didnt want all that story to go to waste and I didnt want to break my promise to my loyal followers...they deserved to know how the story would continue!
But in the end Ayasha started as a fan-project out of pure fun and I dont think that anything good is gonna come out of me FORCING myself to update this blog. I’ve been thinking for a LONG TIME about various solutions for this, but none of them worked out for me and I had to make a decision. Things change and its time for me to move on, finding my way now into the world of animation!
Dont get me wrong, this isnt easy for me AT ALL. I LOVE my dear Ayasha and everything that I never came to introduce on this blog about her world! And I am NOT planning on leaving her to “DIE” like this. Neither her nor YOU guys deserve this!
And now its time for me to talk about YOU people. Thank you. SO. MUCH. You have no idea how much this blog means to me. Thanks to YOU GUYS I rediscovered my love for storytelling and fully realized WHO I AM and what my strengths are. You guys gave me SO MUCH CONFIDENCE and if it weren’t for you I would’ve NEVER gone to all those conventions and meet all these amazing people I call my friends today. You have no idea how much this blog affected me and I will be FOREVER GRATEFUL for that.
Which is why I will publish EVERY unpublished content I HAVE about Ayasha. You can ask me every question about her, everything I had planned for her. I will also write a summary of where I wanted the story to go and I will ALSO publish the unfinished “script” I have for the Arc I had planned to illustrate after the Hiatus.
I dont want ANY of the work I put into this blog to go to waste. I’ve seen this happen to SO many pony-blogs, all of them just vanished into thin air without a trace and most blogs with a story-arc ended on a giant cliffhanger. I’d really love to avoid this happening to Ayasha too, so whatever you wanna know, I WILL TELL YOU.
If you might be interested in following me for my newest Art or interacting with me on tumblr, I have an art blog: http://elbdot.tumblr.com/
AND a mod blog: http://eleanorappreciates.tumblr.com/
And I’ve been MORE than active on BOTH of them for the past few weeks.
I also have a twitter that I STILL have to get used to, but Im there too if you happen to be on twitter!
Again, thank you all so much for your support, your loyalty, your generosity with ALL the fanart you made for me , your patience and lastly, your ENDLESS KINDNESS.I enjoyed every second of working on this blog when it was still active and I had so much fun with all of you guys through all those ridiculous livestreams or even getting to meet some of you at conventions!
Im still on hiatus till March, Im very sorry!Im not even sure how much time I will actually HAVE after I graduated…so many new things came up…If Im lucky I can continue the story in another way, by illustrating a few parts of my story and the rest being text, kind of like an illustrated childrens book.It would be a shame to let my script go to waste.On the other hand I dont think that this long hiatus did the blog any good, I probably already lost half of my fanbase because of it.I am currently working on a childrens book as my graduation project.If any of you should be interested in my work besides MLP, here again is my art blog | mod blog | and my twitter
here is a small look inside of the book. Still a work in progress!
Hello my dear. I really really love your Oc. but i heard about you reporting Tessera Tenebris because her Oc looks like yours. I'm her big fan too, makes me sad you doing that. Cuz she work hard on her page, and she is an great artist, but now she is going to delete the page. Is that what you want?
Tessera Tenebris? Im sorry, but there most be a misunderstanding...? I dont remember ever doing that! I remember somebody reporting her to me, but I didnt really find her to be a bother after I checked her page and didnt find the “traced artwork” somebody told me was supposed to be on her page.Could be that somebody else reported her FOR me without my knowledge, but I personally didnt take action since, as mentioned before, I couldnt find any of my work on her page.
Its been 2 years since the last reference sheet...time for an update, dont you think? :D Took the time this weekend to get a new one done, INCLUDING a very detailed character sheet with more Information about Ayasha.
You can find a part of the sheet in the description of my deviantart-upload! It contains some spoilers tho, so beware!
Actually I didnt want to post too much pony-content on this blog, but I felt like sharing the story of how this art-blog came to be in the first place.
I started posting art on tumblr with a small pony-ask blog I created, which soon evolved into more of a comic-format with an ongoing storyline. It was my official introduction to digital art that kept me going, while for all those years before I had been avoiding the digital medium for my love for traditional pieces.
After the creation of my ask-blog, things changed rapidly for me. Tumblr opened up new doors that deviantart never had shown to me. For the first time, I received so much positive feedback and people were praising my skills in art and story-telling. Thanks to all the love I received through tumblr, I gained the confidence and trust in myself that I have today. Now I have an official art-blog and am working on all kinds of original concepts in my mind, that I am going to realize during the next year. Tumblr helped me find my role and that telling stories, creating concepts and designing characters truly is what I am meant to do. And after the jubilee exhibition of pixar back in 2013, I’ve set my goals high to make a portfolio worth of becoming a part of it.
With all the change that happened in such a small spawn of time, I am more than eager to find out what the future has in store for me and how Im going to improve through the next couple of years!
PRETTY GREAT. PRETTY FUCKIN GREAT.
THIS Trip. Was FANTASTIC. I had SO MUCH FUN and it was SO NICE to meet all those friends face to face, plus the fantastic friends of casynuf that I got to know there! :’D Even tho Friday was pretty stressful after my flight to Ludwigsburg got canceled and I had to spent 7 hours at the airport, building up our table on saturday morning went PERFECTLY and OOOOOH MY GOD OUR BOOTH TURNED OUT SO FANTASTIC
JUST LOOK AT IT
WE HAD SO MUCH SPACE, it was RIDICULOUS 8D
All in all this Convention was the absolute BEST. I sold out on SO many poster motives and cards and only have two button motives left :’D
And I cant believe how many people came over to me, telling me they knew me from tumblr, complimenting me and buying my art, having nice conversations sometimes in-between and even getting a few gifts, all of you who said hi, you really brightened up my day and made the convention even more memorable for me :D AND EVEN OUTSIDE THE CONVENTION EVERYTHING WORKED OUT SO PERFECTLY and the people were all so nice, it was like somebody trying to say that everything was just as it was supposed to be…
EXCEPT for casys donuts xD Those cursed, fricking donuts…
So yeah, shout out to casynuf, icecoldwulf, airbladeart, and polaris, you guys are AWESOME and I really hope we can repeat this next year :D
