:0 He is very cute!

eXCUSE ME the coloring is amazing :0

Look at the color gradient on those eyes that's amazing

@Echo - IKR HE'S SO HUGGABLE never mind the fact he has the ability to easily displace my internal organs if I tried FDJIKFJSDIOF

@Autumn - :0 Thank you!! I'm glad to hear the shading on the clothing isn't too bad, gotta work on it though xD

@Zura - Coloring is definitely one of the longest and possibly tedious parts of drawing xD glad to see the time paid off though!

@Specter - Thank you! UwU

@Marshall - Honestly eyes be the easiest part to color xDDD small surface area

@Russet - Where is the feedback for the missing lollipop? :3 :eyes:

@Tiger - Ooh, that's a first for expressions xD. I personally don't think I do anything unique with them (if anything, probably accidental distortion), but I'm glad you think it's special. Gotta do an expression study sometime xDDD I gotta stop drawing smug smiles and semi-angry ferocity

-Galaxian-

@Russet: >:D Extra lollipop!! :D

@Tiger - I love that in-depth explanation, thank you sdjfdifjof I feel bad that you've been looking at my art for so long though,,, lol I really love analyses like what you just provided because when I look back at them in the future sometimes I'll be like "wow what he said was true!! :D" or I'll just be flattered in the future as well. I'll try to keep doing as well as/better than you and others have been saying about coloration/shading/capturing and the like , so thank you so so much :3

-Galaxian-

I like how there's effort in the shading despite being a simple piece.
Honestly dude! That's really good for a finger drawing!
And it is exceptionally good for a quick piece too 👍
He does not look like an adult xD really, congratulations.
I alsi really like the lineart in different color for his shirt thing.

And I'm curious. What did you do for the little glow on the right? Did you airbrush it or was it another option? It looks really, really, super neat.

I just noticed I didn't add his mole under his eye xD must be the consequence of not looking in the mirror for a month+.

@Specter - Thanks for all the compliments lmiao. Yeah, I used the airbrush for the lighting. I don't think I went as overboard this time as I did...one time,,, :thonk:

@Echo - Well you draw on your phone and you do just fine don't cha? xD
Thanks for the feedback!

-Galaxian-

I keep on forgetting he's litterally seven.

But pretty nice, I'd say

"What's the design for your forum persona, Galaxian?" you ask. "Well, it depends!" I answer, shrugging and offering the equivalent to the online "(:" that has been said to be utterly unhelpful and perhaps even provocative.
Well, here's a drawing of forum!Galaxian. I think I said I'd post something like this to Echo a while back, while I was still in my former sketchbook, but I couldn't sketch traditionally in a while, and during that time, my drawing of him quickly proved itself to be a no in terms of posting it. Also, I only just opened this new sketchbook, essentially. And perhaps you can tell, but there's no way I can color forum!Galaxian correctly on any digital platform as of this point, especially since I don't know what specifics are "canon."
So instead, I went for this instead. Kudos to you if you can tell something else that's different (uhh, not psychologically), but essentially, I'm trying to let go of my perfectionistic attitude a bit. The fact that art is for enjoyment might seem like an easy fact to remember, but I think that many other artists (since I like to think all artists have some degree of perfectionism) could testify that it's not that easy. Sometimes it feels like anything wrong just makes a piece invalid, or maybe an (unintentionally) messy part of a piece that was intended to be clean forfeits the entire work as a whole. Or at least, that's the way I'd say it. But you know, I think I need to keep realizing that art is a process, even if it's not one I'm good at, and that I'm trying my hardest and won't get anywhere if I keep pushing on through that process without ever stopping.
So yeah, this piece, and many more that I'll post in the future (probably all of my artwork), is chock-full of mistakes. Some mistakes are those I made and didn't bother to change, some are those that I'm aware of but don't know how to fix, and some are those I don't know are there yet. But you know what? It's okay. It's a process.
That isn't to say that I'll stop deleting artwork files from places once I can't bear to look at them anymore, because I will, but that does mean I'll (try to) stop thinking I'm an untalented idiot all the time. Like yeah, maybe that is true, and you can't deny it either (art progress slow as heck xD), but I have other things I'm better at and good at, or even things I'm worse at, and that doesn't mean that I should stop doing any of those activities. Art is pretty personal, and I shouldn't be stressing myself out over it. That's what I'm working on, anyways.
So...this piece is really loose. Linework probably didn't have enough effort in it (I do see some improvement, though, I think? Maybe?), coloring was literally just whatever I thought might work (1 A.M. coloring FUN), and I probably shouldn't have colored the skin first...yeah, so that's a definite part. I overworked the skin too much and now some parts look like globs. But it's okay, because the entire work was really fun to do. I haven't had that much fun coloring in a long while. And the feeling of actually (possibly) showing something I said I'd show was fun, too, contrary to a certain piece I showed in the near(?) past. So yeah.
Well, other than all the rambling about art, the point of this post was actually supposed to be "I don't know what's canon for forum!Galaxian...because technically everything could be canon and also not canon." As I was coloring him and letting go of my entire mindset of how he's supposed to look, I was realizing something pretty important. That thing was pretty obvious, too--it's how character design is really a process and how that fact is important to this character specifically. Forum!Galaxian is intended to be a combination (the best one I could put together, anyways) from the ideas of a lot of people who I saw as friends. No matter whether those individuals still see me as friends, the time during the forums spent with those people, who used their time to type out things for me, is still something very valuable in my eyes. So, my persona's design is basically my interpretation of their ideas combined, whether it's hair color, outfit preference (as compared to how I characterize him), accessories, and details like that. But I realized a few days earlier that by constricting myself to those ideas only, just using them as what could be, nothing was fitting together correctly. It's less a matter of "he's my character, I shouldn't be just going off those ideas" and more "he doesn't just represent something like that." To me, forum!Galaxian is supposed to represent me in a way--not really in personality (because our dead social skills are in different underworld realms) or in appearance (though this would fit a little closer), but instead, he represents how some place was able to change him, just like that place was able to change me. He has details to him that originate from the forums and wouldn't be without the forums, just like how I think that I also have such details. He isn't just someone who became how others perceived him to be. He is someone who was (able to be) perceived by others. By just putting together the ideas of others, his appearance only became someone who was only what others thought he was. His appearance nearly became extremely static--the opposite of someone who is always evolving, whether it's him or me or any other person in this world. As his creator, I nearly made a very big and very stupid mistake--I nearly forfeited what I actually wanted him to represent. And that's funny.
Well, that's about all I really needed to say. I think that sometimes his more static appearance also appears--void black eyes, the gradient blue hair Rune once described, the exact outfit and friendship bracelets imagined by other friends. But other times, Galaxian's not like that. He changes, sometimes goes back a little, sometimes "leaps forward"--it's all fun, you know? To be able to witness that and to try to represent my own changes in him is fun. There's no way I'll truly be able to convey this properly, but overall, thank you for making me who I am, and thank you for influencing how my forum persona looks like in turn.

I did want to note that my favorite part of this piece, colors exempting, is probably how the more I look at his expression, the more his smile turns from a more innocent one that I'd expect his GGaD persona to have to a more smug, slightly condescending one. Illusion or not, it's super funny, but I don't recommend staring at this for that long. Wouldn't want you to actually see all the mistakes, would I? ;).

-Galaxian-