Opie draws inspiration from the contemporary world, constructing his refined, concise visual language, through which images of people, figures and landscapes are conjured, rendering them in his universally recognisable style. He uses simple signs and pictograms and expands them to evoke real people and places. Opie's work (referring to the image above) interested me because of his block, bold colour mixed with the mixture of dark and light colours he uses in the hair. Also the bold, black lines to define the image.