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deadbeatbirdmom · 1 month

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Good news, my copy of this book arrived today:

Bad news: I don’t have a scanner, so the only pics I have were taken on my phone while struggling to hold the book open. I've attempted to keep light from reflecting off the pages in annoying places.

Although even if I did have a scanner I wouldn't have time to scan everything, this book is almost 350 pages long. Not all of it is art worth scanning, there's a fair amount of screenshots from Volumes 1 to 8 too.

The pics I have managed to take so far are under a read more cut because there's over 20 of them. Mostly Yang because she's my fav, but a fair few of team RWBY as a whole, and some of Blake, and a couple of Raven. And Jaune photobombs a couple of times too. Oh, and how can I forget Zwei? He might steal this post by being too cute.

Art from the covers.

Height charts including heels. It seems Blake’s heels from Volume 7 onwards are an inch shorter than in Volume 4 to 6.

Yang and Jaune modelling Beacon’s uniform.

Zwei concept art, showing him morphing from a lil blob.

Blake concept art, I'm not sure I've seen the bits about what's under her coat before.

Early map of Remnant. Interesting place names, but Signal isn't on Patch but elsewhere, so this isn't a final version. I wouldn't rely on it as a reliable source for writing fic.

Weiss, Blake and Yang concept art, including early versions of their emblems.

Volume 4 to 6 team RWBY.

Volume 7 onwards team RWBY.

Hoverbike chase and backgrounds concept art.

Volume 7 onwards Blake and Yang.

Yang showing off her moves. I can't help but imagine her doing this on that night off dancing with Blake, even if I think she'd look happier.

Blake T posing turnaround.

Blake showing off her moves.

Yang and her fiery punch.

Raven’s bandit camp, excuse my fingers. Oddly enough I think it's using the outline of Yang in her DGAS outfit as a reference for scale inside the tent. She certainly seems to be lacking her right arm below the elbow.

Yang retrieving the Relic of Knowledge.

Raven outside Haven's Vault.

Yang slamming her fists together.

Yang’s turn to T pose.

Blake T posing again.

Raven joining in with T posing.

That's all I've got, apart from a couple of things for separate posts. This one is more than long enough. Let me know if there's anything you're hoping to see from this book, and I'll see if I can share it. You might be better off hoping someone else has the book and a scanner.

#long post #RWBY Archives Remnant Promenade #RWBY concept art #Yang Xiao Long #Blake Belladonna #team RWBY #RWBY Zwei #Raven Branwen

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lunaefall · 1 year

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Thinking about this concept art by Einlee for the manga anthology covers and going insane . . . the yin-yang symbolism isn't even subtle.

#bumbleby #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #rwby #concept art #dani.txt

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shana340artblog · 2 years

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I still want to add more designs but i'll stop at here for now lmao. Which one is your fave?

#rwby #blake belladonna #rwby blake #rwby blake belladonna #my art #fan art #rwby concept

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h4lcyonism · 2 years

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MY GIRLS 🥹

#concept art from the ice queendom exhibit at ax #rwby #rwby: ice queendom #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #emma.txt

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o2pin · 10 months

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Concept art from RWBY Volume 9, Episode 4: A Cat Most Curious

Probably my favorite concept artwork for this season

Artwork done by Sana Freeman

#rwby #rwby9 #rwby volume 9 #rwby v9 #team rwby #rwby concept art #concept art #ruby rose #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #weiss schnee

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jammatown919 · 11 months

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Me, drawing my favorite catgirl Blake Belladonna: Oh, I'm not worried about the colors, I'll just colorpick off her model from the show! Easy and simple!

Me five minutes later, remembering lighting and other things influence the colors shown on the models from frame to frame: HER FACE IS BRIGHT PINK AND THE WHITES OF HER EYES ARE BLUE

#blake belladonna #rwby #I'm just now realizing it would've probably been easier to colorpick from available concept art

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aspoonofsugar · 9 months

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Blake Belladonna's Design

This is a quick appreciation of our Cat Girl's design. Its objective is to offer a short analysis by incorporating elements of other metas. Ideally, the end result will be something similar to Yang's post. Finally, this is the final piece of my mid-summer Blake meta spree :) So, enjoy!

JUST ANOTHER CAT GIRL?

Blake's design plays with the idea of "cat girl". Cat girls are common in anime and mangas, but are often overly sexualized. In particular, cat ears are usually presented as an overly cute trait and sometimes a fetish.

RWBY takes this idea and subverts it in 2 ways.

Blake's ears are initially hidden, so that her affinity with cats gets highlighted through other aesthetical elements:

Gambol Shroud's ribbon resembles a cat's tail and it being a whip may reference the infamous cat o' nine tails

She decorates her eyes with cat eye makeup

She is able to make copies of herself, which get jokingly referred to as copycats

In Mistral she wears leg boots, which bring to mind Puss in Boots

In Atlas she wears a catsuit

Blake's cat trait becomes a core part of her identity, which is explored on a double level:

It represents her faunus heritage, which makes her different from humans and discriminated

It is a symbol of Blake's troubled past and of her involvement with the White Fang

So, Blake covers her cat ears to run from both society and herself. Just like a scaredy cat ;)

As you see, with some limitations and worldbuilding, Blake manages to be a cat girl with much depth to her. Still, there is more to her cat design.

FROM CALICO TO TUXEDO

Let's juxtapose Blake's initial concept art with her final design:

What changes is the cat used as the main inspiration.

In the initial concept art it is the calico cat (tricolor cat):

In the final character design it is the tuxedo cat (bicolor cat):

Why the change? Let's explain it by highlighting one similarity (1) and one difference (2) between the two kitties.

1- Both cats are called after a type of cloth:

Calico is a fabric, which originates in India (the set of the Jungle Book - Blake's secondary allusion) and is famous for its colorful printed patterns. I wouldn't be surprised if Blake's clothes in the concept art were meant to be calico made.

Tuxedo is a formal wear, which consists of a black suit over a white shirt and a bow tie. Well, Blake's final design is a revisitation of the traditional tuxedo with a shorter jacket and a bow worn in the hair, instead than as a tie.

The idea of "cloth" is heavily used in Blake's design, which may be one of the reasons why the tuxedo is eventually chosen. This kitty, thus, offers a pretty poignant metaphor.

It all starts with Gambol Shroud, where shroud means a piece of cloth that conceals or protects:

Here come two thoughts:

Blake's bow is her shroud which is why it resembles her weapon’s ribbon (same color and similar material). The bow is the ears, while the ribbon is the tail. Together they complement Blake’s cat design.

Some tuxedo cats are called tuxedo masks because it is as if a black mask covers their whole faces. It is easy to see how this concept fits Blake, who conceals herself thanks to a little piece of fabric.

Basically, Blakes's bow is her tuxedo tie, which is worn as a mask.

2- The two cats differ when it comes to their color:

The calico is a tricolor cat, which is mostly known as having a white coat with some orange and black patches

The tuxedo is a bicolor cat, which has white and black fur

These two color patterns are another reason why Blake has been characterized as a tuxedo instead than a calico. As a matter of fact the black and white dychotomy fits our beautiful faunus girl more.

WHITE AND BLACK = BEAUTY AND BEAST

In old English, Blake's name means both black and white. As a result, she is linked to both colors, which tie with her light and shadow motif:

Blake is associated to the twilight because it is where light and shadow meet. What's more, her musical theme is built on this duality. She starts in the shadows and climbs her way up towards the light.

Well, Light and Shadow are linked to two Jungian Archetypes:

The Light is the persona, so what is shown to others

The Shadow is what is repressed, so the hidden parts

And these two archetypes are explored in The Beauty and The Beast:

The Beauty is the light - she is beautiful, lovable and accepted

The Beast is the shadow - he is ferocious, scary and misunderstood

So, Blake's own allusion can be read as the integration of beauty and beast, light and shadow, so that a new unit (a new individual) is born. This is also Blake's arc in a nutshell. She starts as a shadow because she hides herself, but with time she steps into the light and shows the world who she is.

In other words, Blake's Beauty and Beast allusion is referenced in her appearence not only in her nature as a faunus, but in her color scheme too. She is both beauty and beast, light and shadow, white and black.

This is also why these two colors are incorporated in respectively Sun and Ilia.

Sun is white, as he leads Blake towards the light:

Ilia is black, as she forces Blake to face her own shadows:

Through them Blake integrates her shadows and stops hiding:

This is why her design changes in Mistral in two notables ways:

She gives up her bow once and for all

She wears a white jacket over a black top

These two details mirror Blake's inner journey. She learns to show herself more, so her ears get to be out in the open and the light (white) surfaces. In Beacon, instead, the ears are concealed and Blake is wrapped in shadows (black).

Ironically, this means Blake's design loses the core traits of her tuxedo cat inspiration. As a matter of fact she has no bow tie anymore and the color pattern is inverted, which doesn't work. Why this choice? It is because Blake is going from Beast (black + cat) to Beauty (white + individual). Symbolically, this happens as she shows her faunus trait more openly:

She grows more beautiful (human) as she openly embraces her beast side (cat).

GOLD, BLUE AND PURPLE = HOT, COLD AND JUST RIGHT

The shift from calico to tuxedo brings some consequences to Blake and Yang's complementary designs.

Let's compare the bees exploratory ideas:

As people have noticed, Blake and Yang are aesthetically and symbolically linked since early on.

Here, we have:

Blake with one gold eye and one blue eye

Yang with a blue bandana

This chromatic choice ties into Yang's allusion and design. As a matter of fact our Goldilocks uses colors to represent the too hot, too cold and just right. Specifically:

red/orange is the too hot

blue/green is the too cold

purple (blue + red) is the just right

So, in the picture above Yang's looks play with the dychotomy between too hot and too cold. This same duality is mirrored in Blake:

She is both too hot (gold eye) and too cold (blue eye)

She wears much gold in general (Yang's main color)

The idea is clear. Blake is Yang's hot and cold. In particular, she brings some needed blue in Yang's life. She helps Goldilocks cool down and become more balanced. Similarly, Blake proudly wears Yang's golden tones, as she has to grow more like her Golden Beauty.

So, how have these ideas evolved in Blake’s final design?

Blake has gained a strong association with purple, which makes her Yang's just right

Blake's color scheme has ditched gold in favor of silver, which makes her and Yang complementary

Blake's link to purple is interesting because this color calls back to her family and to the surname Belladonna (beautiful woman in Italian). In other words, it is connected to both Ghira's legacy and her Beauty side. So, it is not a surprise that Blake grows more purple in each arc:

She is slowly blooming into Yang's just right by reconciling with her legacy and by becoming a person worthy of our golden girl.

This transformation is highlighted also by Blake integrating some gold into her:

In both her Vale and Atlas's designs Blake is linked to silver, so that she can complete Yang's gold. Still, in Mistral she has some gold details because this is the arc where she integrates her missing parts. This integration ends with Adam's death and Blake's rebirth:

So, Blake's design tells a story of inner growth, which leads her to stand beside Yang as an equal:

Blake: She's not protecting me, Adam. And I'm not protecting her. We're protecting each other.

This theme is important for Blake's Cat Girl archetype. Cat Girls, thus, are often reduced to love interests, but Blake's arc is a deconstruction of this idea. What would happen if the male partner of a Cat Girl is abusive? Blake explores this concept and tells a story of liberation and development, which ends with a reconstruction of the trope. Our Cat Girl ends up in a happy relationship, but not as a shallow prize. Rather as a winner.

BEASTS, LIONS AND WOLVES

In conclusion, Blake's design alludes to the Beauty and Beast on three levels:

Society= Blake is both human (beauty) and animal (beast)

Couple = Blake and Yang are drawn as complementary

Individual = Blake is both white (light) and black (shadow)

Still, this is not the only fairy tale our Cat Girl ties into thanks to her animal features. Here come three examples.

Blake is Bagheera's daughter and a small panther (a cat) in the Jungle Book

Blake is a Scaredy Cat to Lioneheart's Cowardly Lion. Except that of course the cat is braver than the lion

Blake is Ruby's black beast in team RWBY's LRRH team allusion

This last reference is foreshadowed since Red Like Roses:

Black the beast descends from shadows.

After all, the Beowolves appear when Blake's line comes up.

Moreover, Blake's secondary allusions all come together to strongly link our Black Shadow to wolves. In the Jungle Book, Mowgli is raised by wolves, just like Blake grows up in the White Fang. The name of the group itself calls back to wolves, as it references the title of Jack London's book about a half-dog half-wolf, who fights to be accepted by humans.

Finally, it turns out Blake is not the only Cat, who turns out to be a Wolf:

In short, Blake's design lets her freely move between allusions and references. Not only that, but it is crafted to add depth and thematic resonance to her character and her arc. Not bad for just another Cat Girl, uh?

#rwby #blake belladonna #rwby meta #my meta #yang xiaolong #bumbleby #character design #once upon an allusion

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campbell-rose · 7 months

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RWBY Rework Blake Belladonna

Black the beast who descends from shadow is supposedly both the Beauty and the Beast but I feel like other than being a cat girl it never comes through in her design. In her more recent appearances, she’s strayed from being black and has taken over Weiss’s spot as white, which is very annoying. So I went back to the source and looked at some of her concept art for inspiration. I found myself adoring her mismatched eyes, so I stole that for my design. I also liked the cutesy dress she was in, though I do like the slimmed down final of her v1 look.

I think a big issue with her design is that Menagerie has no defined aesthetic. Blake’s kind of like a ninja, but has this gothic lolita type thing going on too, so I decided to design Blake and then design Menagerie around that – which turned Menagerie into a fairy tale island full of magical human/animal hybrids that has different areas based on specific animals – which I’ll expand on later. Blake took on a frillier look, but I made sure she didn’t step on Weiss’s toes because in this rewrite I’m bringing the fact that Blake is a princess into this, which is another play in my decision to make her and Weiss partners. Blake is a princess in hiding, the daughter if the dead king of the Eastern region of Menagerie after an attack from the White Fang (which have been overhauled). So when she returns to Menagerie she’s got nowhere to turn to and is instead trying to regain control of her house that was stolen from her.

I’ve played up the beast aspect of her, making her a sort of chimera faunus. (in this rewrite, Faunus can have a variety of traits and actually look part animal) While this would be harder to hide, I’ve come up with ways she did it – Her ears/the bow, her horns/her hair + filing them down (painful but effective), the tail/tucked very uncomfortably in her tight clothes. Essentially, she was hurting herself to try and hide her faunus traits, something that will play into her character – she is willing to suffer just to avoid conflict. Also i took away her human ears i hate that design choice.

Her outfit is modeled after a tuxedo cat and this adorable fit I saw on Pinterest once. I’ve also taken to Twiins iink’s idea and taken away long sleeves, which gave room for some cute gloves. Her hair is long again because that mop cut is grotesque in both her concept art and in the show. I gave her a braid though, simply because I want a lot of flowing parts on this with her tail and hair and ribbons and it looked super cute on her amity arena summer skin.

i think it might just be a little too similar to her og design, so I'll tweak it a little more after i finish Weiss and Ruby, in a whole team spread with their final designs

Also Adam is the rose with hints of the fairy and Salem is the fairy (in this Salem takes the place of a lot of Fairies and Evil Witches)

#rwby rework #rwby redesign #rwby au #blake belladonna

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riotphoenyx · 10 months

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Did I ever post these here?

I dont think I did 😅

Photos by @tlt-wm and @chrismaghintay

#rwby #my cosplay #rwby cosplay #bumbleby #blake belladonna #blake belladonna cosplay #blake rwby #concept art blake #blake concept #i gave her swords cause its what she deserves #rtx 2023

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kousaka-ayumu · 2 years

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Behold the ona and only TEAM RWBYS AS GUARDIANS OF THE VEIL!!!

Guardian Matchup:

-Ruby: Quintessence

-Weiss: Earth

- Blake: Air

- Yang: Fire

- Sarah: Water

If you don't know who Sarah is. She's my RWBY X W.I.T.C.H oc and Will and Cornelia's adopted daughter.

I going to do her profile in next post after I'm done with Psycho X Cupid fanart

If you're asking *Why are their Guardian outfits looked so different?"

Well the reason is that I thought their outfits(The colors) looked a bit boring, it doesn't tell you about their personalities.

So I lay down the details of their outfits.

Ruby Rose:

Her dress is inspired by her Vale design(it's iconic alright!), But I changed some parts of the dress with the frills from red to silver to match her eyes, since she hasn't cut her bangs in a while Sarah and Weiss gave her a hair clip.

Weiss Schnee:

Her dress is inspired by Cornelia and sonocomics Weiss design, since she's not the heiress anymore, so Ruby gave her a red ribbon to match her red hood.

Blake Belladonna:

I thought that cutting her hair was stupid(As much I like her short hair, I prefer it in her official art and concept art I do not like it in the show), so she kept her long hair. As for her outfit, I noticed that her Vale design, alternate design and Mistral design often a bit of her midriff , so I did that but with a sheer black undershirt.

Yang Xiao Long:

Like Blake her Vale design and her Mistral design exposed a bit of her midriff, so I did that but I realised that all of her designs in canon don't have much yellow on them, and more like a lot of brown on them, so her yellow will be primary. As for her gold heart necklace, Ruby gave it to her as a present.

Sarah Hale/Roselight:

Her top part was inspired by her Vale design(Like I said I will posted her profile in the next post), at the bottom part I gave Irma reference with the upside down heart, if your wondering why did her heart-shape necklace glow? Well it revealed soon..

So there you go! And also happy Halloween!

2nd version

OG art:

Ruby:

Weiss:

Blake:

Yang:

Sarah:

#W.I.T.C.H X RWBY #happy halloween #halloween #ruby rose #weiss shnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #sarah hale

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buttonprint54 · 2 years

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RWBY: Ice Queendom Cartoons Reveals More Forged, July 3 Nippon Premiere

Masumi Asano returns as Glynda Goodwitch The established Japanese website with regard to RWBY: Ice Queendom (RWBY: Hy? setsu Teikoku), the new television anime intended for Rooster Teeth's RWBY franchise, revealed about Friday that Masumi Asano will reprise her role because Glynda Goodwitch (seen below) inside the anime, and that the anime will best in Japan about July 3 in Tokyo MX plus BS11, and in July 5 in MBS. Kathleen Zuelch previously voiced the character in the original English tone of voice cast. Rooster Tooth have not yet declared a language voice presenter to the character in the anime (Rooster Teeth previously declared that members from the original English throw and the Japanese dub will aceleraciÃ³n the roles for the anime). Crunchyroll will stream typically the series by having an English dub and in Japanese people with English subtitles. Rooster Teeth describes the particular anime: RWBY: Ice cubes Queendom' presents RWBY in beautiful SECOND anime visuals. RWBY imagines a global stuffed with horrific monsters bent on passing away and destruction, plus humanity's only expect is dependent upon powerful Huntsmen and even Huntresses. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, and Yang Xiao Long happen to be four such Huntresses in training in whose journeys is going to take all of them far beyond daylight hours environment of their school, Beacon Academy. Though each may become powerful on their very own own, these 4 girls must overcome dark forces and work as some sort of team if these people truly hope to turn out to be the next era of Remnant's protectors. Toshimasa Suzuki (Lagrange - The Blossom of Rin-ne, Typically the Price of Smiles) is directing the anime at BASE. Kenjir? Okada (March comes in such as a lion) is usually credited as main director. Gen Urobuchi (Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero fiction, Psycho-Pass) is traced for conceptualizing the particular anime, with Tow line Ubukata (Mardock Scramble, Psycho-Pass 2, Cat in the Cover Arise) writing in addition to supervising the intrigue. huke (Black Stone Shooter, Steins; Gate) conceptualized the character designs for the particular anime, while Nobuhiro Sugiyama (ef: the tale of reminiscences, Arakawa Under the particular Bridge, March will come in such as a lion) is designing all those characters for cartoon, while also helping as chief movement director alongside Yoshiaki Ito and Hiroki Yamamura. Nobuyuki Takeuchi (Maria Holic, Bakemonogatari) is credited with regard to visual direction. Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi are producing the music. Members of the unique English cast and even the Japanese dub will reprise the roles for the cartoons (the Japanese story revealed more tone actors beyond the particular four main characters). The cast consists of: Lindsay Jones and Saori Hayami since Ruby Went up Kara Eberle and Con? ko Hikasa seeing that Weiss Schnee Arryn Zech and Yu Shimamura as Blake Belladonna Barbara Dunkelman and Ami Koshimizu as Yang Xiao Long Hiro Shimono as Jaune Arch Aya Suzaki while Nora Valkyrie

Megumi Toyoguchi as Pyrrha Nikos S? mum Sait? as Rest Ren Kazuhiko Inoue as Professor Ozpin Other staff members incorporate: Main Animators: Hiroto Nagata, Kazuki Kawada Production Design, Extradimensional Space Design: Rui Tomono Art Planks: Hisaharu Iijima Artwork Director: Ken Naito Color Key Designer: Jin Hibino Overseer of Photography: Takayuki Aizu Editing: Rie Matsubara Audio Overseer: Jin Aketagawa Producers: Bandai Namco Martial arts, Good Smile Business, Rooster Tooth Void_Chords feat. L might perform the opening theme song "Beyond Selves. " Saori Hayami will execute the ending concept song "Awake. inch The anime might also have a new manga adaptation simply by Kumiko Suekane (Versailles from the Dead, Blood+ Adagio, Afterschool Charisma) that will run inside of Kadokawa's Monthly Witty Dengeki Daioh mag. Yakusoku no Neverland Gogoanime animated series by the late originator Monty Oum employs four girls together with unique weapons in addition to powers that are coaching to hunt supernatural "Creatures of Grimm. " Bunta Kinami launched RWBY: Typically the Official Manga inside of Shonen Jump+ in December 2018, and the manga ended in June 2020. Viz Media published the particular manga as part of its Weekly Shonen Jump lineup. Shirow Miwa drew an early on edition of the web animated series inside of Shueisha's Ultra Hop magazine from Late 2015 to Feb . 2017. Viz Mass media published the tromba in its English language edition of 7 days a week Shonen Jump mag beginning in October 2017, as well as published the manga in print out. Additionally, Viz Press is also building the RWBY manguera anthology series. Options: RWBY: Ice Queendom's Japanese website, Comedian Natalie

#Yakusoku no Neverland Gogoanime

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