For more than a decade, Paolo Parente has been one of the most popular fantasy artists worldwide.

Exciting legions of fans with his wild, seductive, and darkly alluring characters, Paolo takes a unique approach to illustration blending together Italian renaissance, fantastic art, and comic book style, reassembling them into mysterious and gothic images of strength, hostility, eroticism, and death.

Paolo has brought his distinctive and sensual visions to a multitude of projects, including: Magic the Gathering, Confrontation, Mutant Chronicles, DoomTown, Call of Cthulhu, and Cyberpunk in the gaming industry, and Penthouse Comix, Conan for Marvel Comics, Lobo for DC Comics, Starship Troopers for Dark Horse Comics, Jaguar God for Verotik Comics, Judge Dredd and Slaine for 2000 AD in the comic book industry…

Here’s something a lot of his fans don’t know: Paolo has been a Fashion designer, in his youth. After graduating from the most prestigious Italian Fashion school (Marangoni School), he’s worked for the most important brands of the Italian fashion industry as a designer and illustrator….until the day he decided he had to follow his true passion for Fantasy Art, where he could let his creativity run wild and free.