Operaman & Speed Dial
This is my entry into My Opera’s An Artist In You contest. Since the contest prize involves a cheese slicer I thought I’d try to do something that was so cheesy I’d need that slicer to slice it up, so I did my play on one of the cheesiest images I’ve seen used in conjunction with Opera, a man I’ve dubbed “Operaman”. You can click on its image to get the original picture used by the fine people at Opera Software to launch Opera 8.
It took me quite a while to figure out something to do, and in an off comment to Jeffro I said it’d be funny to do Operaman. He thought it was an excellent idea, and I went with it. I didn’t just want to draw Operaman. I wanted to do something funny with it, perhaps play on a feature of Opera. Speed Dial instantly entered my head, and I thought it’d be perfect to do a Flash sort of character where it has super speed. Speed Dial was born.
I don’t normally draw in this style, as I tend to prefer a cleaner style. I grew up drawing superheroes, and anyone who knew me back in the day knew I was a walking X-Men encyclopedia. I knew everything there was about X-Men. I wanted to tip my hat to a style used in American comics. This gave me a chance to try my hand at coloring the characters similarly to how they’re colored in these days. I think I did okay.
Well I hope you guys enjoy it. It’s not to be taken too seriously. It’s meant to be cheesy.