Luis Royo — Dead Moon Cycle | Dark Fantasy Illustration | LoRA (Krea2 Turbo)
LoRA trained on the complete Dead Moon cycle by Luis Royo (1996–2004): the defining dark-fantasy saga of post-apocalyptic amazons, ruined civilizations, twin moons and eroticized warrior mythology. The model captures Royo's signature blend of muscular feminine anatomy, leather-and-chrome barbarian aesthetics, dramatic crimson-and-moonlight lighting, and highly detailed illustration work influenced by heavy metal album covers, Boris Vallejo and Frank Frazetta.
Trained and tested on Krea2 Turbo. NSFW-capable base strongly recommended — the Dead Moon cycle is fundamentally about eroticized dark fantasy with partially clad warrior women.
About the Artist
Luis Royo (born 1954, Ojos Negros, Teruel, Spain) is a Spanish fantasy illustrator, painter and comic artist, one of the most commercially successful fantasy artists of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Early career: studied furniture design, worked as a comic artist in Spain in the 1970s–80s
1980s: began producing fantasy illustrations for book covers, role-playing games and magazines
1990s: international breakthrough via Heavy Metal magazine and album covers for metal bands; published a sequence of bestselling artbooks — Women, Malefic, Secrets, Prohibited Book, Dreams, Nightmares
1996 — Dead Moon (Vol. 1): the first volume of his most ambitious narrative cycle, introducing the world of the amazons beneath twin moons
1998 — Dead Moon: Epilog: continuation of the saga
2003 — Dead Moon: Epilog II and 2004 — Dead Moon: Epilog III: the conclusion of the cycle
2000s onward: continued artbooks (Ice and Fire, Subversive Beauty, Dome, The Tarot of Luis Royo), plus murals, commissions, and the Dome project in Moscow
The Dead Moon Cycle
Dead Moon is a post-apocalyptic dark-fantasy saga set on a world with two moons. After the fall of a once-advanced civilization, surviving amazons rule the ruins — warrior women clad in leather, bone, chrome and tribal marks, wielding swords and firearms, moving through dead cities, desert wastes and sacrificial altars. The cycle mixes:
Amazon mythology — all-female warrior societies, ritual combat, goddess worship
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi — ruined megastructures, crashed ships, decaying technology
Dark eroticism — the female body as both weapon and altar, never objectified in the pornographic sense but always charged with menace and power
Heavy metal iconography — skulls, chains, blades, leather, blood, fire
The Manner
Muscular feminine anatomy: Royo's women have visible, defined musculature — fitness-physique rather than pin-up; abs, deltoids, thighs rendered with anatomical precision
Leather-chrome-barbarian wardrobe: studded leather bikinis, spiked pauldrons, chain accessories, bone and skull ornaments, torn battle-damaged clothing
Long flowing hair: nearly every figure has long, wind-blown hair (often black, red or silver) — a signature compositional element
Tribal marks: tattoos, scarification, ritual warpaint, brands, jewelry piercing multiple points
Dramatic twin-lighting: typically a warm crimson/fire source paired with cold moonlight from the two moons; creates saturated rim-lighting on muscular bodies
Dead Moon specific palette: blood crimson, midnight black, chrome silver, bone ivory, ash grey, deep violet, desert ochre
Highly finished illustration style: smooth but detailed rendering with visible brushwork; influenced by airbrush technique of 1980s–90s fantasy art; closer to Boris Vallejo and Simon Bisley than to classical painting
Compositionally vertical: most pieces are portrait-format book covers, the figure dominating a ruined or atmospheric background
Atmospheric depth: mist, dust, ash, fire-glow, moonlight halos — heavy use of environmental effects
Skulls and bones as recurring motifs: often worn as jewelry, mounted on weapons, or embedded in the environment
Tested Generation Settings
Parameter
Value
Base model
Krea2 Turbo
VAE
qwen_image_vae
Text encoder
qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled
Steps
8
Sampler
Euler a
Schedule type
Bong Tangent
CFG scale
1
Resolution
1536×2048 (portrait — the cycle's native format)
LoRA weight
0.85–1.0
Negative prompt not required at CFG 1.
Versions
Epoch 17 (current) — captures both the detailed illustration technique and the Dead Moon cycle's specific aesthetic (twin moons, amazons, leather-and-chrome barbarian look). Stable on Krea2 Turbo at 8 steps.
Rights & Ethics
Luis Royo is a living artist (b. 1954); his works are protected by copyright. This LoRA is a non-commercial, educational and fan-art tool. Do not use it to produce works for sale or to imitate the artist in a misleading way. Credit the artist when publishing results.