Princess Protecting Flowers

Sketch:


This one's been overdue for a while considering I'm nearly to episode 100 by now, but I finally started watching Bleach for the first time since I needed something to fill some workout time, it's available on Hulu and I have friends who are/were fans. WHY it took me so long... well, I think it's because I was/am committed to so many long-runners already (*cough*ONE PIECE!*cough*) but Orihime quickly became my favorite for this  series.

As for the sketch, Orihime herself needed no real fixes/changes, but OH BOY did the Shun shun Rikka.... they're mostly traced in for the sake of squeezing in as much detail as I could and doing that on the digital end is easier than drawing that tiny by hand... I tried to hybridize/retain as much of my own work as  I could, as well as try to add my own style touches, but I also can NOT believe how limited the refence images are for these guys! Every website seems to use the same handful of images and they're NOT very high-quality! (Case in point, Lily; I had to use two different images for her and I'm still going to have to play with her a little bit to try to turn her more towards Orihime.) 

Is this series not on BluRay yet? Heck, I'm pretty sure even regular DVDs would produce larger/better images and with such a large, devout fanbase I just cant believe there aren't more actual screenshots out here.... I'm just in shock!

Beach and all of its characters, including Orihime, are (c) Tite Kubo, ViZ media, and any and all other respective owners may have missed/not be aware of. I do not own the character in any way, shape or form, I am just a fan!