05/30/2026
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 eighteen, he immediately found work in an ad agency as an illustrator.
At the age of twenty one he became a freelance illustrator and started a career as a fantasy artist.
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, reaching an international audience.
Among his US clients is George Lucas, for whom he illustrated the book covers of the trilogy "Chronicles of the Shadow War".
Ciruelo has also created a number of album covers, Steve Vai's The 7th Song and The Elusive Light and Sound being two of them. The Swedish rock band, The Flower Kings have also commissioned a painting for their album Adam & Eve. Other clients include Wizards of the Coast (Magic cards - MTG ARTIST PROOFS available. Please, contact us for prices), TSR, Berkley, Tor, Warner, Ballantine, Heavy Metal magazine, Pl***oy magazine, etc.
He's also worked with Alejandro Jodorowsky on a comic story published in France and in the USA in 2006. Another branch of Ciruelo's art is Petropictos, the Art of Painting on Stone, a type of art that captures the public's attention in exhibitions that tour different countries. He created this technique in 1995 which consists of painting on stones in that he is able to discover three dimensional images and create something halfway between a painting and a sculpture.
In 2003 he designed two dragons for the movie George and the Dragon.
Ciruelo has also illustrated the cover for the 10th Anniversary edition of the book ERAGON, by Christopher Paolini and, in 2016, did over 40 ink drawings for the Eragon Coloring Book. At the beginning of 2017 he was invited to be one of the judges for the prestigious contest Writers and Illustrators of the Future.
CIRUELO'S BOOKS
In 1990 Ciruelo illustrated The Book of the Dragon to be published by the Spanish publisher Timun Mas. Foreign rights to this book were sold to the prestigious publishing house Paper Tiger of London in 1992 who 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 2000 his fourth artbook Magia, the Ciruelo Sketchbook was published.
In 2006 a special little book came out, Travels Notebook, with drawings and texts by Ciruelo.
In 2008 his book, Fairies and Dragons, was published containing many illustrations accompanied by a story written by himself.
In 2010, Dreams Notebook followed the line of Travels
In 2012 his artbook Infinito Interior was published featuring over 80 paintings (text in Spanish).
In 2015 Magic Notebook was published within the line of the by Mr. Hubbard” —Ciruelo
Find out more at: www.dac-editions.com Orson Scott Card is the author of the SF novels Ender’s Game, Ender’s Shadow and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by both adults and younger readers and are increasingly used in schools. Ender’s Game was also made into a major motion picture. Card also writes contemporary fantasy, biblical novels, the American frontier fantasy series the Tales of Alvin Maker, poetry and many plays and scripts. He has won the John W. Campbell Award, the Nebula (twice), the Hugo (four times) and the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for Young Adult Literature.
Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona and Utah. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. Since 2001, he has run an annual “literary boot camp,” an intensive critiquing workshop for aspiring writers; he has also written two books on writing.
Orson Scott Card received the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts in 2014.
Orson Scott Card has been a judge of the Writers of the Future Contest since 1994, having earlier served as a guest instructor at the writers’ workshops, both at Sag Harbor, Long Island and at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
“The Writers of the Future Contest gets the best work of new writers with fresh ideas. Reading the winners is like the exhilaration of a brand-new thrill ride—you’ve never heard this voice before, never shared this vision. That’s why the annual anthology is always so good. . . . Writers of the Future simply is the best way to launch a career. It’s one of the forces that keep science fiction alive.” —Orson Scott Card
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