Oliver Sin is an alumnus of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA, with a BFA in Illustration. Right after Oliver graduated in 1996, he started his art career as a computer game concept artist at LucasArts. Since 2001 until now, Oliver has returned to his school to be an art professor for the School of Fine Arts and 2D Animation. Oliver has been so drawn to art even as a little boy, started drawing at the age of 3. Somehow, portraiture just seems to be his favorite form of expression which he constantly practices, not only as an art professor but as a favorite hobby as well.
Oliver’s first art book, “Drawing the Head for Artists” is published in 2019, hereafter, the Spanish, Dutch, and German versions become available in 2020. Oliver’s first educational step-by-step DVD, “Portrait Drawing Simplified” was published by Streamline Publishing in April 2022. Two of Oliver’s portraits were commissioned and featured on the cover of Time Magazine as part of their “100 Women of the Year” project, March 2020 issue, see attachment. Oliver’s vine charcoal portrait drawing of his dad won First Place in Drawing at the Portrait Society of America International Art Competition in 2021. For consistent achievements of artistic excellence in the art field of fine art portraiture, Oliver has earned “Signature Status” with the Portrait Society of America in 2022.
