Ninja Gunman Game Sprite

This is the in-game sprite for Ninja Gunman, a game me and Bisse are working on at Perfect Run. It should appear exactly like this in the game.

I'm going with a different style for this game. Instead of pixels, everything's gonna be hand drawn and scanned.

I'm cheating though, but I think I've covered it up nicely. To save time (and sanity) everything here has been cut into different parts that I slot together and animate using another program (designed by Bisse).

You'll notice that he has two spare swords on his back. As the game goes on, every sword you collect will be visible on his back (unless he's using it obviously). I want it to get to a point where you have loads of swords back there and it just looks ridiculous.