Ben Oliver

Batwing interiors

2011-09-08T13:51:00.001Z

Couple of greytones from Batwing #1, out now. Big thanks go to Brian Reber for his fantastic colours - check the issue to see them in all their glory :)

2011-09-08T13:50:00.002Z

Aardman pitch

2011-07-06T09:25:00.003Z

Part of an advertising pitch job for Aardman

Captain America

2011-06-29T21:15:00.002Z

Detail from a cover for Comicbox magazine...

Batwing

2011-06-06T22:56:00.002Z

Coming in September...

Alpha Flight 0.1

2011-05-20T19:52:00.003Z

Couple of pages from Alpha Flight 0.1, out now - and a sample of Frank Martin's sweeeeeet colours...

2011-05-20T19:51:00.000Z

2011-05-20T19:50:00.002Z

Barack Obama shoots hoops, yeah?

2011-04-04T21:18:00.006Z

One of a couple of illustrations for the May 2011 issue of GQ, out now in all good newsagents...

CB Colour

2011-03-24T19:22:00.001Z

CAPTAIN BRITAIN WANTS YOU

2011-03-23T10:07:00.003Z

Adidas pitch

2010-12-10T22:53:00.004Z

These are the original illustrations I worked on when pitching for the Adidas job a few posts below. Initially the images were planned to be black and white only, including the player.

2010-12-10T22:52:00.000Z

Norman Osborn

2010-12-08T12:05:00.002Z

This is one of those regular instances where I finish a piece of work and like it. For about 10 minutes. Then I really wasn't happy with it, now I kind of like it again. Well, I like the way his left eye turned out.

Catwoman

2010-09-22T13:41:00.003Z

Recent commission - I've got a bit of a backlog but do take commissions, please get in touch if you're interested. Just be prepared for a bit of a wait :)

Knight and Day

2010-07-08T11:46:00.005Z

...is a movie out this summer starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz - this is for GQ magazine, out today....

Little bit of....

2010-06-21T14:17:00.006Z

black and white - from a recent illustration job for anxagency.com. This is actually creative director Andi Ewington in his new guise of recon / sapper / general mercenary. He also wrote 45, for which there's an illustration somewhere below.

Daredevil : Shadowland

2010-06-14T14:49:00.002Z

Can't believe it's been six months since I updated - sorry, thanks again to anyone who checks the blog. Here's a Daredevil cover to start the huge onslaught of work I'll soon be posting.... :)

ADIDAS World Cup Fedkits 2010

2010-01-06T16:38:00.003Z

Had the opportunity to work on the Adidas World Cup 2010 campaign last year, here's a couple of the featured players I illustrated.

2010-01-06T16:35:00.000Z

Dark Reign The List - Hulk

2009-12-01T17:16:00.003Z

Digital greytones for a recent book I worked on - first used this technique back in 2003, just need to take it to the next level and colour some myself.
The Cowgirl / Defile pages a few posts below were also drawn using this process, and in fact I coloured those.....so to clarify - I just need to take it to the next level and colour an entire issue :)

2009-12-01T17:13:00.000Z

Judge Dredd

2009-12-01T17:07:00.003Z

Sincere thanks to anyone that takes the time to visit this blog, my lack of any updates is getting ridiculous. So....here's a few images! See you in six months :)

2009-12-01T17:06:00.000Z

2009-12-01T17:05:00.002Z

45

2009-05-28T13:26:00.003Z

Page from the forthcoming '45' from Com.x - concerns a character called Turncoat who can assume the identity of anyone he touches, usually by way of a handshake.

Ian McEwan

2009-03-15T20:34:00.003Z

Drawn last year for this incredible site - http://digitalmedusa.com/sgettis/word/

Cowgirl + Demon = Saucy

2008-12-01T22:27:00.001Z

2008-12-01T22:19:00.004Z

Uncanny #499

2008-06-30T19:26:00.003Z

Quick page from Uncanny X-Men 499, which I worked on recently. I drew them in line only as the regular artist Mike Choi draws in this style, and he provided the other half of the book.

Ten Seconders

2008-06-04T21:52:00.002Z

So I thought I'd post something new every Monday? Cheese and rice that was a bit optimistic. Sorry about the wait, in my defence I have been REALLY busy this year.
These are a couple of pages from a series I worked on for British comic 2000ad, written by the masterful Rob Williams. They're all line pencil, coloured in Photoshop.

2008-06-04T21:51:00.000Z

2008-06-04T21:50:00.000Z

Thunderbolts

2008-01-31T12:43:00.001Z

Couple of black & white pages from an upcoming Thunderbolts one-shot, out at the end of Feb ( I think...)

2008-01-31T12:35:00.001Z

Ghost Rider

2008-01-26T18:59:00.001Z

Cover for a Ghost Rider Annual, which came out
last November I think. Mixture of photo ref, paint and
Photoshop.

One Year Later

2008-01-23T18:52:00.000Z

(Almost.....) Apologies for the absolute lack of any activity. No excuses, just complete and utter tardiness on my part - from now on I'll really try and post something once a week, probably on a monday. Thanks to everyone who has left any comments, - good or bad, it's great to get feedback. Will post some artwork on saturday - it's only a couple of days, might as well celebrate the last post anniversary properly. Thanks again.......

Batman

2007-01-26T09:46:00.000Z

This started out as a frankly rubbish sketch that I was intending to colour. I ended up adding all the blacks in Photoshop and although it was completely different to what I'd envisioned, I quite like it...

The Loop

2007-01-25T17:56:00.000Z

The last of the three pieces for Event Horizon, there's actually the germ of an idea behind this one.....

Trading Card

2007-01-20T22:05:00.000Z

Recentish trading card for Upper Deck, this is unique for me in that it's the first thing I've drawn and painted entirely digitally, fact fans. Btw I paint everything in the glorious Photoshop 6 - I have more up to date versions of PS but #6 still gets the Oliver love every time.

Mickey

2007-01-18T22:04:00.000Z

Pencil sketch from a couple of years ago, this is a character from a project created by Eddie Deighton of Com.x.....

Cla$$war

2007-01-18T00:11:00.000Z

Little bit of superhero action for today - this is a currently unpublished cover for Cla$$war from Com.x. It was intended for a trade collecting issues by writer Rob Williams and artist Travel Foreman, but I'm not sure if it'll ever see print. Cla$$war was really well received when first published, and both Rob and original artist the mighty Trev Hairsine currently both work for Marvel.....I think.....
Btw, one thing I should mention is that this piece was based around a sketch by Travel himself, so thanks to him for that...

Novar

2007-01-16T14:55:00.000Z

My career in comics basically started when I met Neil Googe and the boys from Com.x at the Bristol convention in 2000. The first book I worked on was called Puncture, written by Russ Uttley - this is a related unpublished piece I drew for fun and apart from the initial sketch was all done in photoshop.

Cable

2007-01-15T02:12:00.000Z

I've been working on Ultimate X-Men for a few months and am just about to start my final issue -this is the cover for #77. It's not often I'm happy with anything I've done, but at the moment I'm still pretty pleased with this one. It's a mixture of traditional paint and coloured pencil with added photoshop trickery.

This is not Black Widow

2007-01-15T01:48:00.000Z

.....although a few people thought it was. It's actually a character called Synnamon and was a cover I drew for 2000ad a couple of years ago. There's an element of cheesecake there which I suppose is unusual in my work, but I actually really enjoyed working on it...

Not scary in the slightest

2007-01-14T23:37:00.000Z

Another image for Event Horizon, again I don't know why I came up with it. I called it Ohhhscary, but it really isn't.

Popgun

2007-01-14T23:13:00.000Z

Right, on with some pictures....

This first image was painted for Event Horizon 2, published by all-round good fella Liam Sharp and his gang. I don't actually know why I came up with it or even what it is - some kind of zombie vampire thing? enjoyed drawing it a lot though.....

It lives!

2007-01-14T19:54:00.000Z

After a bit of trial and error I've finally worked out how to post colour images on this shiny new blog of mine - confusion over CMYK and RGB, if you're interested. Anyway, I'll be using this blog to basically get some art up on the net, old and new, unpublished, work in progress, that kind of thing. I'll try and update as often as possible, please feel free to comment on anything you see.....