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o I had this idea bothering me since I first saw the Sakurabito ending. That picture of Byakuya wearing Senbonzakura's mask sent chills down my spine, I SO loved it. The title comes from anime episode 231 "Byakuya, Disappearing into the Cherry Blossoms" where Byakuya disappears after protecting Renji and Rukia from Senbonzakura, in the beginning of the Zanpakuto arc.

The pic came from a screenshot I took from the ending. So vectoring was hell! And it was so dark and blurry!! The top part, and the top teeth I redrew them completely, they didn't even exist. And the rest was half what I saw in the picture, half based on what I could see on better quality Byakuya and Senbonzakura pics, and half gut-vectoring (doesn't that make three halves? meh, nevermind)

I played a bit with gradients, I particularly liked how it came out on the mask and scarf.

The petals I was hoping of vectoring them from an already existing Byakuya pic, but ended up drawing them myself, 'coz I couldn't find any pic with the petals I liked, I hope they don't look too terrible.

I finally fixed the hair, for as much as I could figure, played a bit more with gradients, blurring and smudging. Added brush texture to the BG, loved how it looked. (texture from [link] ). Added the text (font: Mulan). I used the gradient to give the effect of "disappearing", I kinda liked it.

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o I had this idea bothering me since I first saw the Sakurabito ending. That picture of Byakuya wearing Senbonzakura's mask sent chills down my spine, I SO loved it. The title comes from anime episode 231 "Byakuya, Disappearing into the Cherry Blossoms" where Byakuya disappears after protecting Renji and Rukia from Senbonzakura, in the beginning of the Zanpakuto arc.

The pic came from a screenshot I took from the ending. So vectoring was hell! And it was so dark and blurry!! The top part, and the top teeth I redrew them completely, they didn't even exist. And the rest was half what I saw in the picture, half based on what I could see on better quality Byakuya and Senbonzakura pics, and half gut-vectoring (doesn't that make three halves? meh, nevermind)

I played a bit with gradients, I particularly liked how it came out on the mask and scarf.

The petals I was hoping of vectoring them from an already existing Byakuya pic, but ended up drawing them myself, 'coz I couldn't find any pic with the petals I liked, I hope they don't look too terrible.

I finally fixed the hair, for as much as I could figure, played a bit more with gradients, blurring and smudging. Added brush texture to the BG, loved how it looked. (texture from [link] ). Added the text (font: Mulan). I used the gradient to give the effect of "disappearing", I kinda liked it.