Luis Royo is a Spanish artist, known for his darkly sensual paintings. He was born in 1954 in Olalla, Spain. He has produced many paintings for his own books and exhibitions, and has also produced art for various other media: videogames, CD album covers, comic book covers, and Tarot cards.

He is most famous for his work doing illustrations of Julie Strain for the animated movie Heavy Metal.

Soon after he was born, Royo's family moved to Zaragoza, where he first attended school. He began to study painting, decoration and interior design in the Industrial School and the School of Applied Arts, and he combined this with different jobs in interior design and decoration studios in 1970 and 1971.

	Dream in Year 2000 and 2000 Dreams

American magazines such as Heavy Metal and National Lampoon often turned to Luis Royo for their cover illustrations, as well European magazines like Cimoc, Comic Art, Ere Comprime, Total Metal and others. However, his work was not just restricted to magazine covers as he was also asked to make covers for videos and computer games.

Luis Royo Official Web Site

-- September 21, 2007