old one but I feel like ayreonblr had to see.

Today I have provided an Ayreon! Tomorrow? Who knows!

Ayreon and Hippie dream team✨

Happy birthday to Arjen Lucassen (3.4.1960)

Just remembered I never posted these: designs of the characters from Ayreon's The Human Equation, part of a project that I named "The Character Equation", which consists on making a design for every Ayreon character ever (AT SOME POINT. Whenever I don't have dangerously close deadlines. I'm going to be taking my sweet time with this.)

They are heavily inspired on the costume design for The Theater Equation, but they are modeled after the singers in the studio album and their designs are more simple since I tackled these with a comic-making mentality (so, nothing too complex in case you had to draw these designs over and over again in multiple pages and panels).

I go over the process of most of these on these videos! I still have to finish a third one... eventually... but things kept coming up and I had to leave video-making aside.

2021 The Source (Ayreon) Prologue draft, pg. 1-10

can i get the whole gang to say hi 👀👀

AAAAAAA!!!!!! I saw this live and now it's out and this is beautiful music with superb singers and musicians.

My theory abour Mr L and The Hippie

So the poll has decided that I do this theory first, it is an interesting one that I do not see a lot of people have but it is the first thing I concluded when listening to all of the Ayreon albums. So what is this interesting theory? The Hippie from Into The Electric Castle is the same character as Mr L from 01011001.

Before I get into this theory of mine let's get some basic information out of the way. I know there is people that follow me with limited information about Ayreon so I want to make this theory as clear as I can for them! First up I have to explain The Forever as they play a role in my theory. I will not get into their entire story because that will take way too long and is not as important. So the Forever are an immortal race of aquatic aliens they originate from planet Alpha but when computers took over the planet they fled to Planet Y where they evolved into an aquatic race to adapt to their new planet. The same substance that allowed them to evolve gave them psychic abilities and slowly stripped them of emotions. They send a comet with their dna to follow the migrator trail to a suitable planet, earth. The Forever did this to live through the experiences of the humans and experience emotions again. Which leads me to the next important bit of information for my theory:

The setting of Into The Electric Castle and The Hippie One Forever we know as Forever of the Stars has taken 8 mortals from different periods in human history together as an experiment. They have been given one directive to get to the electric castle to get back home, there is some hurdles to overcome and not everyone survived. This album is where we meet the Hippie and get into his struggles, he is one of the survivors which is an important bit of information. While the survivors do not remember anything and think it was just a dream the Forever gave one gift to each of them, they all woke up feeling as something have changed within them. Now important to note is that The Hippie seemed more aware of what happened than the rest of the surviving cast which will tie into my theory.

Mr L and his dreams As I have briefly noted in my other analysis Mr L appears in one song The Truth Is In Here where he talks about strange dreams he had. And it talks about the futile attempts to sing about Ayreon's (the character) vissions which landed him into a mental hospital. Not only does the song reference Ayreon it also references the Hippie and the Forever, he seems to get dreams about being a Forever swimming underneath the waves of Planet Y. He also referes to the Forever always being with him and being his guide.

How does this all tie into my theory? Arjen has stated that when a character shares a voice in his story that they are linked in some way. We can see that with Hansi's characters for example on the Source the prequel album he plays an Alphan escaping to Planet Y and on 01011001 he plays one of The Forever. Ayreon (the character) is a past life of both Mr L and The Colonist (from The Universal Migrator) now this link easier despite the fact that both Ayreon and The Colonist were depicted by multiple singers. In the official comic for The Universal Migrator all three share the same face and we can see Ayreon float around Mr L as he writes the lyrics for The Final Experiment. The Hippie is being portrayed by Arjen both on the album and the live concert and so is Mr L. At the period The Hippie was alive it is reasonable to assume that he eventually developed into Mr L who is more mature and has had contact with The Forever before. It is not unreasonable to assume that the little gift of Forever of the Stars eventually leads to The Hippie seeing Ayreon's visions and dream of The Forever. It is estabelished that Ayreon recieved the visions from the time telepathy expirement because he is more connected to that. We know this trait can be shared with future incarnations, how do we know that? Merlin, he is the one to talk to us from 2084 and he saw the future. Merlin is a seer a trait he eventually passed on to his future selves. The Colonist and all of his past incarnations are all more connected to the Forever and the Universal Migrator.

This is why I think why The Hippie and Mr L are the same character just on 2 different albums and under different names. Let me know what you all think and feel free to call me stupid if you do not agree with me. Anyways my analysis on The Knight will still be done later because I have lots to say about him (I love him so much).

Our roadtrip to the Ayreon concert in Netherlands is unfortunately nearing it's end. The only thing left is the disgustingly long ride back home. But it was sooooo worth it!!! The best concert I've been to so far! It's incredible that they were able to get together all these great artists who collaborate on this amazing rock opera music project! And the acoustics were impressive (surround sound and all - especially as I was standing in the middle of the hall). And the stage design was also great. Wbwjbwjs idk what to say - everything was great.

Oh also, we were staying at the Ayreon campsite, and bonding with the people from all around the world over music was something very special. Just sitting around the campfire and chatting... Vibes (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠).

Aaaaaaaargh insane experience ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

I feel like Guilt Machine as a whole doesn't get enough attention, but this really is an excellent Leonard Cohen cover

Suddenly got hit with a Ayreon the Blind Minstrel hyperfixation mood so take a Ayreon doodle page!

🍃The Biologist🍃

The Source characters 5/11✨

Have the Biologist! Part of an art trade for @docma-crm ^-^💚✨

I had fun designing her! Took some inspo from her stage outfits, but toned it down a biiit for design and functionality reasons! She gets the green coloring because biology XD

I am so happy with her hair T^T🍃✨

comfy

There is danger ahead, but do not be afraid, for I am with you, like breath itself. Darkness will lead to light, colour will bleed into the night. Beautiful colours, the like of which you have never seen. Let the dream of confusion lead you into the virgin light! Be gone! Be all seeing, be brave!

[2 february 2023]

(Queueing old art everyday just for the sake of keeping this blog mildly updated).

Someone take procreate away from me