The town of Valladolid saw him grow up, come and go. While in Salamanca he graduated from Fine Arts, later on he moved to Boston to study Illustration and Design. He currently lives in Spain. He is been always searching for a way to see the inside and outside of things, to the extreme of sleeping with his eyes open.
His work has been selected and awarded by the Society of Illustrators of NY 49th Annual Exhibition, Illustration West 43, 3×3 Magazine of Contemporary Illustration, The National Drawing Award Gregorio Prieto, Expocomic, JĂłvenes Creadores2006 Comunidad Madrid , Artis Gallery Drawing Award, Arte Joven of La Junta de Castilla y Leon, and La DiputaciĂłn de Valladolid.
RaĂşl has worked on comics on iconic characters such as Wonder Woman, Secret Avengers, Hawkeye, Immortal Iron Fist, and collaborated with writers such as Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Warren Ellis, Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire, Vita Ayala, Robert Venditti.
He has been a part of the travelling exhibition Spanish Illustrators: The Color of Optimism. A collection of outstanding works of contemporary illustrators in Spain
His work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Berlin, Madrid, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Buenos Aires y Barcelona.