Victoria Francés

At the end of 2014, Francés presented her new project called MandrakMoors, in collaboration with the South Korean bjd doll company, Fairyland. For this project, the author set out to combine both the work of new character design, specifically of characters related to the world of witchcraft and pagan traditions, with the subsequent creation of bjd dolls, in partnership with FairyLand.

In 2011, the Favole trilogy was re-edited to create one single volume entitled Integral Favole (Norma Editorial), a compilation of the three books in addition to unpublished sketches and illustrations. In 2012, Ocean Lament (El Lamento del Océano) was published, in which the author features a listless, spectral mermaid as the main protagonist..

The second volume in the Misty Circus series is entitled The Night of the Witches (La Noche de las Brujas), published in 2010.

In 2009, she published the first volume in her Misty Circus series (Norma Editorial) based on the decadent world of the travelling circus, written for a younger audience. In the same year, Dark Sanctuary was published (Astiberri Ediciones), written in collaboration with Dark Sanctuary, a “Dark Atmospheric” band from France.

Francés and her popular style are inspired by the Gothic movement, and her work is considered a model to follow in terms of illustration within this genre: ghostly women wearing long dresses with vampirical attributes. Her illustrations tend to depict solitary characters, young women or couples in a romantic or melancholic atmosphere. She is influenced by a number of writers including Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice, Goethe, Baudelaire, Bram Stoker, as well as illustrators such as Brian Froud, Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac or Luis Royo and bands like Dark Sanctuary, whom she worked with in 2009.

Dark Horse became interested in her work, and Francés has been published in North America. She made her first public appearance at the XXII Barcelona Comic Convention. Calendars featuring her artwork, as well as other promotional merchandise such as posters, puzzles, and tarot cards. In 2007 the course of her artistic career took another direction with the publication of Arlene’s Heart (El Corazón de Arlene) by Planeta DeAgostini.

The first volume of the Favole trilogy was her first illustrated work to be published. Manifested throughout the entirety of the Favole trilogy (2004–07) are themes emerging from Dark Romanticism, highly influenced by both the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and well-known works of Gothic art. Her work received a number of awards and achieved great success in countries where it was published.

Victoria Francés (born October 25, 1982) is a Spanish illustrator.

Francés was born in Valencia on October 25, 1982, though she spent part of her childhood in Galicia. She returned to her hometown to earn her degree from the San Carlos School of Fine Arts, at the Polytechnic University of Valencia.