CallMePo - Hit-Girl’s Swear Jar

The idea for this picture came after my friends and SniperPlushie went to see “Kick-Ass 2” together.  It was a bit of a disappointment overall but then again the movie was made quite a few years after the first one and well, you can’t stop a kid from growing up, which Hit-Girl certainly did.  But in the course of the movie she was living with a rather clean-cut sort of foster parent who had a “swear jar”.  Essentially, each time she swore she would have to put money into it.  My friends and I looked at each other and said, “Are you fuckin’ kidding me?”  It’s always been a theory of mine that if a movie’s sequel is rated lower than it’s predecessor then it won’t be as good.  Such as if the first movie was rated R and the sequel was PG-13….it’s not going to have the things that made the first movie so great.  Basically, it’s like the studio censors just had a field day on the script and the movie.

All ranting aside, after seeing the movie the idea for this picture popped into my head.  However, due to a lot of unforeseen circumstances, the idea was on the shelf for a long time, at least until I was able to get CallMePo to do a sketch of it.   But I wanted to get it as an ink drawing so I could add colors.  Again, money was an issue, so time passed and finally I managed to get money together for it.  And so, the idea came to life.

Here’s the original: Hit-Girl Swear Jar Lineart By CallMePo

The next hurdle of it was to add color to it.  I knew that was going to be the big hurdle because of all the finer details in the picture, namely the boots so that part was left for last.  The other aspect that I experimented with in this picture were the highlights in the suit as well as the mask.  Its something that I hadn’t done before simply laying down color and doing a lot of smudging and using the highlight tool.

After doing the boots, I knew what I wanted for the background; I wanted there to be a lot of splatter like what was done in the original posters for the Kick-Ass movie.  Each character had splatters of color representative of their character.  Kick-Ass got green.  Red Mist got red.  And Hit-girl got purple.

Hope all of you like the work that was put into this.

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