Benjamin Mark

Benjamin Wei Yi Mark is a self taught Canadian artist working with traditional and digital mediums of drawing. Ben was born in Calgary, Alberta and presently resides there. Currently, Ben is in the pursuit of two dreams: working as a freelance artist and a commercial pilot. He is working as a Ramp Agent for North Cariboo Air to help fuel both dreams.

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Ben first became interested in art as a child when he began to draw anything that could fly; giving flight to both dreams of being a pilot and an artist. Although Ben has been mostly self-taught, he has received instruction from various private teachers and majored in music and art in the Performing Visual Arts program at Central Memorial High School.

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As a teenager Ben was heavily influenced by the works of various artists such as: Frank Miller, Dave Gibbons, John Romita Jr., Mark Bagley and Brian Micheal Bendis, by carrying as many of their works as he could carry from the public library. Today Ben is influenced by the artists such as: Frank Cho, Dave Stevens, J Scott Campbell, and Mark Brooks.

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Ben's artistic direction is to blend realism with a comic book style to create a personal style in storytelling and pin-ups. After finishing his first year as a freelance artist, Ben is going full throttle into his second year with creating new art work and attending more conventions in artist alley.