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About Me Deviant Member Dave SwanMale/United Kingdom Recent Activity
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Spent the last hour watching video's on Youtube about  the first game i did, Wolverine Adamantium Rage, Everybody was slagging it off, all quoting the mind numbing hard gameplay, I have to agree with them, thankfully most said the graphics are good. makes me wish maybe I'd taken a bit more notice of what people around me were doing rather than keeping my head down and hoping I didn't F it up, that's something to remember for the future.
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Concept and general artist for the video games industry, going it alone now, will work for food.

Worked for several companies, Perfect Entertainment, IG, KUJU, Did everything from Wolverine on the Mega Drive to BWii on the Wii with Discworld, Fifa, and SEGA Manx TT inbetween amongst several others .

2002 - 2009
KUJU : Sole in house designer working on the Nintendo franchise Battalion Wars and US TV spin-off game Dancing With the Stars

1996 - 2001
Intelligent Games: character visualization development for the FIFA franchise

1992 – 1996
Perfect Entertainment: during this time worked for a short period with SEGA Japan due to Perfect Entertainments relationship with them. I was sent for a three month secondment to the Australian branch of the company as in-house art lead working on high profile games such as Sega Manx TT.


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~Wind-hover Apr 30, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Hey I wanted to thank you again for the stuff you sent me, I've gotten way better at drawing the vehicles. I wanted to ask if you had something like that for the Faction Soldiers as well if you don't mind.

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~manmonkee May 2, 2012
Hi, glad they were of help, as for the troops, I'll have a look but I don't think I've got anything that wasn't published. We just did front and back shots.
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~Wind-hover May 2, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
Well if you have the front and back shots, that would be great, it'd help me learn to draw them from my own angles.

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~Manicart1 Nov 15, 2011  Professional General Artist
Nice Gallery!
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~TalentlessFox Aug 16, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
You've been featured in: :iconblise-art-shop:
Please stop by and give us some complimentary kudos during your free time! Thanks and great art! :D

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~Wind-hover Aug 11, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
Hi! I couldn't help but notice that you made art for Battalion Wars. I love that series, and I've been wanting to try drawing the the characters for a while. Trouble is, I'm not too good at anatomy or clothes. Any tips for an aspiring artist?

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~manmonkee Aug 12, 2011
Luckily for you none of the Battalion wars stuff is particularly anatomically correct, But to improve your art tip 1, practice all the time, tip 2, get a good photograph of somebody wearing something with nice shadows and wrinkles in the cloth and use for reference, you don't have to copy the photo, just take the bits you like, reference them, simplify them, just use it as a guide.
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~Wind-hover Aug 12, 2011  Student Traditional Artist
Ah alright thanks, I'll give it a shot! That reminds me, do you have any other Battalion Wars art? I think I've seen some similar to your style around the net, but it was all low res. I saw a piece with an Anglo Grunt and Vet standing next to each other. I figured it was yours because of the way the knees were drawn.

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~manmonkee Aug 13, 2011
I tell you what, I've got a lot of the original concept, mine and others, All big sizes, I can send you a whole bunch of them, Send me your email and I'll send you a zip file.
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=LordIlpilazzo Aug 11, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
I LOVE your work!!! My group #Screeners is having a contest you might be interested in. Details Here: [link]

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