WARNING, HUGE FILE.

Halibel 'nolastnameyet' and Neliel 'Nel' Tu Oderschvank from Bleach, left and right. The title comes from two things--they're in a fighting pose (and I've been listening to Rolling Star, a Bleach theme, too much lately and a lyric from it is 'fighting pose'~), and also they're both Tercera/third Espada, current and former. I'm a big fan of 'em both, because they fight like nobodies' crap and they look awesome while doing it too. And Nel's also really nice~ c:

Surprisingly, this took me almost twice as long as the last one (soft-shade Sakura). Even though there are two chars and not one, I thought I'd be more used to soft-shading so it wouldn't be as long or hard, but I thought wrong I guess. I spent... more than an hour on sketching, an hour on the BG, which still isn't the BG you see here because it looked so crappy in the end I erased it and ripped off of the anime instead, and a lot longer on the colouring still. In the end, it's almost worth it since I like this one better than the last, but 'almost' because it took so damn long. >__>;

Some things/mistakes I wanna point out:
-sword perspective looks alright, arm perspective doesn't
-captured Nel better than Halibel
-Halibel's head is kinda too big... and square
-forgot Halibel's sheath
-messed up Halibel's guard (why are all the mistakes on Halibel?!)
-lack of original background
-glow around them is supposed to be their reiatsu/spiritual pressure
-messed up Nel's mask
-originally, they were in the same scene without the black borders but it looked unnatural so I split 'em up

Finally, I was inspired to draw them because of Bleach's newest chapter, 355 'Azul-Blood Spill' or something like that. SPOILER: Halibel just released and turned into some shark knight (Attack, Tiburon!) and sliced Hitsugaya's arm off, which was pretty cool (not because I hate Hitsu, I like him too) and I wanted to draw her. Though not her release because lack of refs and we dunno the official colours. And Nel's Tercera too, and she's prolly my fav after Rukia and Ulquiorra, so why not throw her in too? 8D And that's the story of this pic.

And if Halibel ever reveals her last name, I'll fix this.

EDIT: Turns out her name is romanized like Harribel. And she has a last name, Tia (or is that really her first name? Wasn't really clear...). So, fixed her name.

Art © meh, Rainshade (you BETTER not steal)
Halibel and Nel © Tite Kubo