After creating album art in the 1990s for bands such as Buzzoven, Weedeater, and Nebula, and working often for Tee Pee Records, his reputation grew within the underground rock and metal scene.
He has since developed a devoted following creating seminal record covers and screeprint posters for a wide variety of bands including rock and metal legends such as Earth, Sunn O))), Sleep, Howlin' Rain, High on Fire, The Black Crowes, Kvelertak, Cathedral, Astra, Earthless, and Windhand among many others.
His influences include diverse artists and styles ranging from comic and fantasy art to graphic design and classic illustration.
Roper has cited some primary influences to be Roger Dean, Frank Frazetta, Vaughn Bode, Bernie Wrightson, Greg Irons, Mike Ploog, William Stout, and Alan Lee.
With an interest in mythology, consciousness, psychology, religion and other timeless subjects, Roper mixes the light and the dark within his art to reveal imagery which is at once strangely unique, distantly familiar and always soaked with an earnestly fantastic aesthetic.