Benjamin (Ben) Charles Wootten is a graphic artist and designer based in Wellington, New Zealand.

[4] At first Wootten worked on King Kong (which was originally planned to be made before The Lord of the Rings trilogy).

When Kong was canceled Wootten began to work on designs for Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy.

Most of his recent work has been for RPGs and TCGs; clients including Wizards of the Coast,[3] Paizo and Upper Deck.

For Paizo, he has done interior illustrations for the Pathfinder: Curse of the Crimson Throne Player’s Guide, and for the GameMastery line, Crucible of Chaos.