Ben Oliver

Illustrator

Birthday April 29

Birth Sign Taurus

Birthplace Bristol, England

#233115 Most Popular

About

Artist and graphic illustrator known on Instagram to have amassed more than 260,000 followers. His grid is full to the brim with his portraits of fictional characters drawn in a realistic style. He's a legendary cover artist as well as a book and panel artist for both Marvel and DC Comics. He captures the likeness of more than just superheroes, he draws characters from the Star Wars franchise as well as other screen characters for fun or commission such as Breaking Bad antihero Walter White and Die Hard movie villain Hans Gruber as played by Alan Rickman

Before Fame

He started working as a comic book artist for the British weekly print publication: 2000 AD. He started there in 2000. His first work published in America would come three years later working for DC Imprints Wildstorm, Vertigo, and America's Best Comics. He would later work for Marvel comics before returning to 2000 AD to work on a second Judge Dredd storyline. He now works now more as a freelancer, regularly working with all these publications. 

Trivia

His Twitter and Facebook accounts also have an impressive number of fans tracking his career. His Twitter account has more than 3,000 followers while his Facebook account has something more than 10,000 followers. 

Family Life

He keeps the details of his personal life protected and never releases information about his life beyond the sketchbook page. 

Associated With

His work can also be seen on the silver screen such as the CGI and other graphics done for the blockbuster Transformers: Age of Extinction