Ardhamon's blog

What does that mean? WHY does that mean?? After many years of trying to figure out how the heck to represent myself online, I've come to the conclusion that limiting my online persona to one limits my own sense of identity. So going forward I'll be represented by four different personas, one for each sort of facet of art I express and the array of complex emotions and thoughts I possess. Four seems like a healthy number, sacred too.

Another thing I'm going to COMMIT to doing is keeping up with an online presence. In truth, the current age of unhealthy parasocial relationships plus the ALGORITHM has spoiled my appetite for blogging, possibly online engagement altogether. However I realize that in order to maintain an existence of some sort, I need to actually do some existing! Frustrating! But it must be done. Like I muscle, I need to work out my social skills. Also in the sea of dangerous strangers there are some real gems out there...

I'm currently dealing with irl bullshit (hoowee when aren't we am I right?) so I'm going about this by babysteps, but the grand plan begins to unravel starting with this post. After tumblr I'll start on my bluesky blog, refurbish my kofi page, et cetera.

Mudkip's Breakthrough

I've been wanting to make a detailed Pokemon piece like this for years, but the backgrounds always proved too difficult xD I finally pulled it off!!

It seems that Mudkip has been struggling to pull off this simple-looking move... Maybe it isn't as simple as it appears.

a visitor on the biodome!!

Hit a bit of a health setback over the last few weeks, just when I thought I was back to a place of relative stability too!

The path to recovery is a long one, but it seems I am over the worst of this particular hump in the road, and I am trying to get back ontop of my daily drawings.

Thank you again for all of the sharing of my posts and support for my gofundme.

It's been the difference between being able to keep my head above water as I continue to try and get back to good enough health that I can return to work.

Cheers everyone,