Gotei 13 Art Club

A handy dandy reference pile for Bleach stuff. 

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Hi guys! This is a new sideblog, currently run by @pirenja . The goal of this blog is to collect handy visual references for the many many characters and locations of Bleach. :]

If other people make their own smaller reference blogs, say for specific characters or groups, I'd love to crosslink them here too so that they can be found easily, because let's be real! Bleach is enormous, and everyone has their favorite blorbo from it. Why not crowd source the effort involved to find good reference material?

For now, I'll be posting and reblogging collections of panels from the manga, artist tutorials that I see or make, and various official art things, including whatever settei scans i can find.

- Feel free to shoot me an ask if you’d like to see a certain character, detail, or location next. I’ll see what I can do~

- This blog is not spoiler friendly! Scroll at your own risk!

Happy hunting!

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Other reference blogs:

- @still-life-with-zabimaru​

[archvillain]

almost forgot but i recently came into a wealth of models ripped from bleach mobile 3d. they're .fbx files & come totally disorganized under a bunch of scrambled names, but i sorted them out. it's just about every character you could think of from the old anime, up to aizen's defeat. if you want some .blend files containing your scrumpo or a zip file of some .fbx's of a specific character, & you're comfortable giving me your discord, lmk and i will send you whoever or whatever (if not, just download the whole thing from the link like i did)

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If you use clip studio paint, you can import .fbx models and use the in-engine tools to play around with them!

You may have to go into the settings and uncheck the outlines around the models for them to look right, but these would make great reference for poses that you wouldn’t normally see these guys in.

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Byakuya Kuchiki // bleach anime production materials

[ichirukilover]

do you know where i ca find the lineart version from the novel covers of the letters from the other side? I only found the rukia one but ichigo is no where to be seen... thanks!

I looked everywhere for it too and was able to find the lineart (which was in an official artbook made for coloring) not too long ago. Here it is anon, hope tumblr doesn't resize it, because it's already not big enought for my taste

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So as best i can tell, the sandals of the shihakusho are a kind of waraji- woven straw shoes, tied in a variety of styles. Some sandals had backs, some didn’t. Also, they seem a bit longer than usual- I’ve read that the ends of the toes usually hang over the edge of waraji for gripping purposes, but that probably doesn’t look quite as cool to draw.

I also imagine that soul reaper waraji, being made from reishi presumably, last longer than a single day’s worth of heavy wear (what?!) but it is very funny to imagine a seireitei cleanup detail traveling around, reclaiming stacks of worn out straw sandals piled up wherever they got tossed out.

(first image is from the bleach settei/ second is from Home Life in Tokyo 1910, by Inouye Jukichi, pg 128)

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Helpful chart by @hilnama showing how to tuck hakama pants to keep shins and ankles free

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About Men and Women Hakama, by Kaoruko Maya (tumblr, pixiv, site).

in bonus: a few drawing of tasuki sleeves holder, mon (crest) position on haori coat, and how kimono pattern should be drawn (illustrated with stripes).

[peroxidestan]

Turn Back The Pendulum

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Apt. 202- Orihime’s home

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Rukia Kuchiki + Sode no Shirayuki // Bleach production materials

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Interestingly, the tsuba we see on Rukia’s zanpakuto here is the same design we see on the one Ichigo uses at the very beginning of the story, before Zangetsu is revealed as a raw blade design. We’ve seen in flashbacks that Rukia has already achieved Sode no Shirayuki’s shikai by this time (training with Kaien), so I suppose that means that Ichigo really was borrowing her sword, because it certainly isn’t a blank asauchi that he’s swinging around, even if it is sealed!

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some more Orihime fashion choices from the early season that wouldn’t fit in the first post. They’re sketchy, but I love seeing her different outfits so I’m including them for myself.

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Orihime Inoue, earlier + later seasons, ft! Tatsuki and Toshiro, for some reason! Height comparison, maybe?

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Zabimaru color design // Bleach production materials

Pretty cool right? I found this to be a good reference for Zabimaru’s extension + the inner cords and spine of the blade in a way that makes it easy to understand.

[asexual-ichigo]

you have a lot of kubo's art right? can you post some of renji? i want to see "rocker style" XD

Haha, I’m guessing that’s in reference to [THIS] post?

Here’s all of Kubo’s color art I have that features Renji not in his shihakusho:

[↑ This is the one he’s talking about in that post in color!]

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I’m sure this is probably straight forward, but this blog is definitely not spoiler friendly! If you haven’t finished the anime/ aren’t caught up with the manga, scroll at your own risk! You’ll almost certainly run into something surprising.

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Renji Abarai (1/?) Shinigami/ Academy/ Bankai // Bleach production materials