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Ciruelo Cabral was
born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on July 20, 1963. His
formal art training was limited to a few courses in drawing
and advertising design, after which, at the age of 18,
he immediately found work in an ad agency as an illustrator.
At 21 he became a freelance illustrator and started a career as a fantasy artist.
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In 1987 Ciruelo
traveled to Europe and settled in Sitges,
Barcelona, Spain. He then embarked on a search for publishers
for his "worlds of fantasy", eventually finding them
in Spain, England, the United States and Germany, and through
this means has reached a broad audience. Ciruelo continues to
work for U.S. publishers, among them Bantam for whom he did
book covers for the trilogy written by George Lucas, "Chronicles
of the Shadow War" (see).
He
also has created a number of rock album covers, Steve Vai's
The 7th
Song and The Elusive Light and Sound
being two of them (see).
Other clients include Wizards of the Coast (Magic cards),
TSR, Berkley, Tor, Warner, Ballantine, Heavy Metal magazine,
Playboy magazine, etc.
In
1990 Ciruelo devoted eight months to designing and illustrating
The Book of the Dragon
to be published by the Spanish publisher Timun Mas, the
work proved an enormous undertaking for Ciruelo, who had interrupted
his daily routine to take on a project that was destined to
profit him only in the long term. Foreign rights to The Book
of the Dragon were sold to Paper Tiger, London, in 1992,
who had also published his first artbook: Ciruelo, in
1990.
In
1997 the book Luz, the Art of Ciruelo came out. This
third book features over 160 full color illustrations, a number
of pencil sketches and ink drawings laid out in 128 pages.
In
the year 2000 his fourth artbook Magia, the Ciruelo Sketchbook
was published.
In 2006 a special little book came out: Cuaderno de Viajes de Ciruelo, Notebooks.
His new book: Fairies and Dragons, has just been published in 2008, it features many illustrations accompanied by a story written by himself.
He lives with his wife Daniela and their kids, Angelo and Lys
in Sitges, a quaint and magical town near Barcelona, on the
shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
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