Alchemaniac

alchemaniac
Biographical Information
Real name	Gilang Andrian
Gender	Female
Date of birth	1996
Place of birth	Indonesia
Age	27
Almamater	Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
Career Information
Field	Visual design
Occupation	Visual artist
Works	See Notable works
Other Information
Social media	Twitter/X
Website	https://gilangandrian.com

Gilang Andrian, better known by her pen name Alchemaniac (stylized in lowercase), is an Indonesian visual artist currently living in Singapore. Alchemaniac started her career on DeviantArt in 2011 and began creating artworks for Chasm, StarClash, and Awaken Destruction among others in 2014, but she made it into the spotlight after being commissioned by Cygames for Shadowverse and later, by Yostar for the 1st anniversary artworks of Azur Lane EN.

Alchemaniac is among the first commissioned illustrators for Arknights, notable for illustrating Skadi.

Notable works

Arknights

Operators
Outfits

Other

• Box art for Chasm
• Various characters and background images in StarClash
• Cover art for Extreme Exorcism
• Rage of Bahamut, Valkyrie's Spear (Shadowverse)
• RPK-203 (Girls' Frontline)
• Xia Ekavira (Nijisanji)
• Alice, Rosalie (Eternal Tree)
• Goldie (Alchemy Stars)
• Laurel, Kalmia (Artery Gear)

Trivia

• Her given name, which means "radiant", is generally used as a masculine name in Indonesian, leading to many in the Arknights community – especially Indonesian players – believing that alchemaniac is a male.
• Like Namie, alchemaniac is known for her love towards her characters.
  • Interestingly, alchemaniac pulled Skadi – one of the Arknights characters she drew – very often when she tries to pull for Mostima, to the point she managed to max out Skadi's Potential.
  • alchemaniac and Namie exchanged jabs between each other in Twitter/X which started when the former teasing that Goldenglow being a dog (since the community initially believed that she is a Perro, but turned out to be a Feline) and went on to both of them boasting that their respective characters (Mizuki and Skadi) being better than the other.
    • When Skadi the Corrupting Heart is revealed to be one of the boss enemies encountered in Mizuki & Caerula Arbor, alchemaniac blamed Namie for that.
• Around early April 2023, a Twitter trend titled "#ActualSkadiArt" occurred in the EN community in response to a Twitter user's controversial and unauthorized usage of using Skadi's art in A.I. generator.
  • The incident started when said user, TwilledWave, purposefully used A.I. generator for Skadi's fan artworks and even tagged alchemaniac for their "artworks" despite her stern warning of forbidding such usage. However, TwilledWave aggressively made several excuses such as stating they had the so-called "freedom of expression" and thus alchemaniac's accusation is invalid, or that hand-drawing is "old-fashioned." Worse of all, TwilledWave even attempted to get Hypergryph involved, stating that Skadi's copyright only belongs to them and not alchemaniac, and so they had the right to take down all the fan artworks.
  • The EN community then retaliated in support for alchemaniac by posting their own Skadi's fan artworks. As a mockery, they also posted memes and comments to rebuke their unethical action.
  • Unfortunately, TwilledWave had disabled comment section in both their Twitter/X and even Bilibili accounts as of December 2023 to avoid further argument, hence the controversy gradually died down while the rest of the community left them alone as an Internet clown.