Bleach: Szayel Casual

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Maaaaaah this took me soooo long. Fact is I abandoned him so bad because, though I loved the pic, so many things happenned in my life during november-december that I found little time to do it. And when I did, I thought... "oh boy, that stupid PS takes so long loading... it's sooo booooring". But he's finally here! I'm sorry for the colors, but I didn't seem to find any skin color I liked, the manga seemed too yellow and the anime was too dark. And the hair... well I liked it being so bright and eye-killer, call me crazy, I felt it fit Szayel.
Now lord did I HATE his pants. such an ugly, boring color, so I kinda changed it just a teensy little bit. And there was a mysterious belt there in the original picture that was like... half belt, 'coz it disappeared halfway, so to avoid complications, I killed it (yes, killed it, there was soooo much blood).
The hardest part? His glasses and his ear. All that zone was mysterious and complicated, like the X files or something like that, the pixels had weird colors and shapes and I kinda made it up on my own, so you can blame me for any alien looking thing there. And his eyebrow, the original was strange-y!
Favorite part? The eyes. I experimented a bit there, and I'm so proud of the result! Much more than I'd ever been on any "eye-experiment" I think it looks more realistic than any previous one (sorry Grimmy, still love you)
Blame me for the background, I lost my mind. But I thought there was way too much white and Black just didn't suit the picture, so I scrambled through my pattern library and picked the first pink-but-not-so-pink thing I saw.
And the eight was hand-made. He never showed his tattoo, it's not my fault! OK, it's weird, maybe I should've erased it after I saw how much of a disaster it was, but I'm stubborn like that.
All in all, I'm happy with the result, though I felt a bit clumsy with the pen tool after such a long hiatus. I also experimented a new style for the shadows, it's so much easier! And the colors seem to match much better than when I chose them with my crazy eye lol. Enjoy! (I hope)

You know the usual. Credit to me, not to Minitokyo if used. Rendered version shall be available in Planet Renders and Animepaper someday. And I appreciate comments and faves, I get credits so I don't have to mind about running out of free downloads! Love you people!

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