Bleach 87 - Life

#87 - Life. Even more of a stretch than "Insides" prompt wise. My problem is that I draw a picture and then try to fit it to a prompt, which kind of defeats the purpose I suppose... oh well I settled on "Life" because he's walking around in the living world, in the middle of a city full of life. I then made up even more deep sappy reasons why the prompt would work, but I won't burden you with them.

I made this because I was playing around with some tutorials by (AMAZING artist btw) on how to make a real photo into a manga like background, and it sounded like fun. I put this in digital art because most of it was done on PS (like the toning). But this was inked by hand. And yes, I know it's kind of balanced oddly, but I like it for some reason.

Drawn in pencil, inked with Sakura micron pens, toning in Adobe PS 7

A bit of manga used as ref. The background photo I found somewhere on Google image search.

Edit: Sorry all, had to fix something that was driving me crazy.

Edit the 2nd: Oh man I am so honored, did a tribute to this picture with Rukia. It's awesome, go check it out! [link]