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Publication of the seventh portfolio Dead Moon.
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Later this year Malefic New Remastered is published, this is one of the most charismatic books by Luis Royo, a new revised and enlarged version by the author with new images and sketches. In Dead Moon Epilogue goes out, an addition to the first book, which elaborates on the past of Luna, Marte and their families. The legend of how Louyang was formed, and how You and Chang families settled there. This book includes a CD with the process of making of the two books and a poster with The Game of Destiny.
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Publication of the eighth portfolio Dead Moon Epilogue. And editing of I Ching deck illustrated with images of Dead Moon. Also another traveling in Fnac. Yamato launches a collection of figures based on illustrations by Luis Royo. Deluxe edition with limited print number. Later this year Prohibited Book New Remastered is published, new edition collects all three volumes of the Prohibited Book series and Prohibited Sketchbook.
Edition revised by the author and expanded with new images and sketches. In , begins the international multimedia project Malefic Time with Romulo Royo. Joined by different creatives. In , El Paso del Tiempo was published, a volume that gathers comic stories made by Luis Royo in the years with a script by Antonio Altarriba.
In , Romulo Royo started the international multimedia project Malefic Time. Adding to it different creatives. In December , the first album of the project "Malefic Time, Apocalypse" was published. Vilches "Malefic, Codex Apocalypse" is released. And from the same series, the manga "Soum".
In , the German edition of Malefic Time Apocalypse was presented in Frankfurt, coinciding with an exhibition at the Schwalbe 54 gallery. This same year, Nocturna Models launches the Malefic Time miniatures collection. In , Malefic is published, Katanas, the 2nd album of the Malefic trilogy. And begins a new project for Yamato, developing illustrations of super-heroes of DC Comic for market launch in collectible figures.
In , auctions of his work are carried out at Sotheby's and Christie's. This year an exhibition is also held at the Champaka gallery in Brussels, with a retrospective character. In , Malefic Time, Akelarre, the latest book of the Malefic trilogy, is released. And the role play of the same project "Tiempos del Irkalla" is published. In , he attends New York Comic-Con and his new limited edition and graphic work collections are shown by Laberinto Gris.
Luis Royo was born in in Olalla, a small village in Teruel, Spain. As a child, he moved to Zaragoza where he studied technical design, painting, and interior design. By he began painting, exposing his art to new forum. In he became a comic artist and soon triumphed internationally. Samples of his work appeared in some of the most important magazines of the time and were later compiled into the following books: Luis Royo Rambla, and Desfase Ikusager, In he moved onto illustrations, were he produced his greatest achievements. He achieves this success with the help of Norma, his publisher and editor that distributes his work to the entire world.
Along with these titles, six collectors cards series were released, five collectors portfolios, posters, and a tarot card set called The Black Tarot. With such a wide range of products, Royo has become an authentic cultural phenomenon. His books have gone through numerous editions and have been translated into French, English, Italian, Russian, and Portuguese.
Magazines like Stampa, Airbrush-Action, and Penthouse have dedicated entire articles to him. Festivals, art galleries, and specialty stores continuously organize expositions honoring his work. The success of Royo is due largely to the originality of his work, which has broken through traditional barriers and revolutionized the world of illustration. He has a keen interest in fantasy themes, though he experiments with other themes like the western, historic epics, and romance.
Setting aside his themes, his innovative style breathes power while radiating a fragile, almost mystic transparency. His use of color, from the most saturated gamma to the most despoiled gray is contrasted with an intense touch of chrome, creating an aura of fascination that invites us to enter his world. When reviewing his work chronologically, one can see a refinement in his style and the reinforcement of his theme, as each composition becomes even more poetic and graceful.
The apparent simplicity of his drawings is deceptive, allowing for a complex plot and a range of artistic options. His permanence on the front lines in the world of illustration and his increasing success is the result of his constant, subtle, and effective experimentation. Whatever the theme, his characters waltz effortlessly between epic and erotic.
As Royo knows all too well, when the dark ghost of death looms over the hero, the suggestion of sex becomes more intense. When studying his characters, one notices that he places the subject on the border of tragedy, where they can shine more brilliantly. Their frozen position anticipates a destiny as attractive as it is cruel.
Clutching their weapon, they await the next attack. Their intensity and the tautness of their muscles make them even more beautiful and dramatic. In the blink of an eye they can disappear, having been devoured by the danger that encircles them. He portrays that penultimate moment, when the inner soul of the hero is revealed. A retrospective look at my work is a good place to try and explain the why and how behind my images. If someone has taken on the challenge of depicting dreams and fantasies, they should be able to shed some light on the subject. Elt was a gray and gloomy country with long winters, sad faces, empty stomachs and weather-beaten coats, all the disheartening signs of a post war period.
A small boy and his family were living on the ground floor of an old house in the heart of the city. It was hot and humid, with just one window that overlooked a small courtyard. A place which now, as an adult, he can barely recall a single image of. On his seventh birthday, his family moved to a new neighborhood. It was a tiny place, barely more than cubic feet, but there was one hidden gem, a window with a panoramic view of the entire city. At that moment, his eyes were lost in the horizon and he became conscious of his own existence.
It was a wonderful day, but the night punished him with memories that struck him like arrows, of the windows that overlooked the schoolyard he left behind. For the boy in the window she was a goddess. He spent hour after hour with his friends, their faces pressed against the glass tracing out images. Never had he felt so happy. Each time his fingers moved across the blank page, he watched his pencil give birth to figure after figure. He remembered that every morning before he went to school his mother would give him candy to stop him from crying, which he would then secretly give to his teacher.
If he could, he would give the whole world to the goddess who could make him happy. Years passed with his eyes transfixed on the urban horizon. His eyes fluttered over thousands of darkened city windows, inspiring him to create people and imaginary worlds for each point of darkness. Soon came adolescence when all the teenagers would get together on Saturday nights, listening to music until their heads exploded. On one of those nights, as the old nightclub began to empty, he sat in the corner, his eyes bloodshot from alcohol.
The walls and multicolored lights of the dance floor framed a new window that awakened his dormant desires. In the center of that window was a girl, no more than sixteen, dancing to the rhythm of the music. With each movement her very short dress revealed a trace of her white panties. Once again, his world was crushed by the opening of a new window, framed by a dazzling array of psychedelic lights. After many months of persistence, there came the glorious day when he finally won over the girl with the white panties. Together they moved in and out of tiny windowless lofts, but through it all there remained the constant desire to fill blank paper and canvas with hundreds of drawings and paintings.
In time a little baby came and they had to move into a small apartment on the outskirts of the city.
The window in the new apartment brought back the gray, bleak world of his youth. The horizon was cluttered with the silhouettes of factories and plumes of smoke rising from chimneys. In his new home, he placed a large canvas and drew guidelines on the glass, just like when he was a child, tracing and painting the sad city in gray. The two of them spent many years in the room with three windows: The drawings and paintings began to fill all the drawers and the piles of canvas grew so tall, there was less and less space left in that apartment.
One day, those drawings and paintings began to bring money to the family and allowed them to move to a new place. It was close to the beach and allowed him to see the sky kiss the sea, but his eyes lost their ability to comprehend the vast distance. He had grown too accustomed to living trapped amidst blank canvas and paper, obsessed with turning the emptiness around him into thousands of images that were later published in different places. The window was the blank paper, the gateway that could transport him to imaginary universes and allowed him to live in one fantasy after another.
He returned to his city, with the ludicrous desire to find an apartment in a tall building where he could rediscover the horizon of his childhood and rekindle his eyes. That new window filled him with peace, if only for a moment. The paper dreams continued to succeed and he spent more time lost in those dreams than outside of them. The true horizon became more and more blurry. One morning he peered into a window that had never told him anything special before, the bathroom mirror.
There, he discovered an aging man with gray hair and dark circles under his eyes. He packed his bags and moved to a warm, quiet beach where a distant sea awaited him. While he sat there, sketching on paper, his inseparable companion, he perceived the immensity of the horizon. It was the same horizon he discovered on his seventh birthday, which he lost so many years ago. He suddenly realized he was standing in front of a massive window of light that was hidden in a remote corner.
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For the first time, he saw the sky and sea with eyes unclouded. Even though he had looked at it hundreds of time before and from many different angles, he had never truly seen it. He was overwhelmed by the immensity of that window and put away his small windows of paper, and for a few moments, lost himself in the intoxicating horizon. He knew that from that moment on, he would always have doubts as to which window to look out of.
After this short story, which deals with the intimate life of an illustrator, we are left to confront the more difficult problem of explaining the use fullness, the intention, the evaluation, and the sentiment behind what we call illustration. For this reason I used windows as metaphors to help you better understand the distinction. What could one say regarding this topic that would make sense? The truth is, it never shows me what I really want to see, or perhaps its does in a mischievous way, enticing me to open yet another window. What do theories matter or what they call art?
All I know is that a blank window awaits me every morning on my drawing desk. What a passionate quest! There are only thousands of windows, and some which are quite magnificent. Biographies of Luis Royo text only by www. Frankfurt Germany In , the interest of Heavy Metal by Luis Royo is reflected in multiple covers and calendars, as well as in their gallery, entirely dedicated to the Spanish author. Apocalypse [Spanish] with Romulo Royo also appeared as: Apocalypse [English] Malefic Time: Visions [Dutch] Fantastic Art: Horsecleanse 3 Translation: Hodina Draka [Czech] Interior Art: Horseclans I Swords of the Horseclans also appeared as: Horseclans XI The Patrimony also appeared as: Pure Blood [ as by Royo] Interior Art: Pure Blood The Death of a Legend also appeared as: A Yoke of Magic Probe also appeared as: Probe A Woman of the Horseclans also appeared as: Race Against Time Peace Company also appeared as: Peace Company Blood Fountain also appeared as: Death's Acolyte Hardwired only appeared as: Der dritte Mond [German] Variant: Hardwired [ as by Royo] Interior Art: Waylander Silverglass also appeared as: Silverglass [ as by Royo] Interior Art: Silverglass I The Black Grail also appeared as: The Black Grail Mute also appeared as: For Crown and Kingdom Raven: Swordsmistress of Chaos only appeared as: Swordsmistress of Chaos [ as by Royo] Interior Art: Swordsmistress of Chaos Variant: Realms of Fantasy, October Interior Art: Raven I Bloody America also appeared as: A Time of Ghosts only appeared as: Time of Ghosts Interior Art: