Friday, October 30, 2015

Retro Anime - We Love Those 70's Shows

This morning I took 5 and looked at Claudio Acciari's work, (whom I really admire) and drew this one to try out a retro anime style from the early 70's.


Young woman running in a prairie, in retro anime style - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Little Archie by Curio & Co.

At Curio & Co. we love nostalgic design and characters, so sometime back we had the idea of an Archie reboot more specifically of a Little Archie.  This is one of the things that we submitted to Archie Comics for consideration, as always I took care of the visuals and Kirstie, my partner, took care of the text.
Little Archie proposed reboot - character line-up - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Little Archie proposed reboot - Reggie - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Little Archie proposed reboot - Betty - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Little Archie proposed reboot - Archie - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Little Archie proposed reboot - Veronica - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Little Archie proposed reboot - Jughead - Design and illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Monday, October 26, 2015

New Robots AZR-0 Joining The Curio & Co. Familiy

This is the first color illustration for the AZR-0 robots along with some close-up details.

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 1- body and arms robot - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 2 - robots in hard hat with construction drawings - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 3 - head and arms robots dress up for event - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 4 - head and arms robots dress up and drinking cocktails - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 5 - head and arms robots in hard hats sleeping on construction site - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 6 - robot zooming by - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 7 - head and arms robots with electronic testing gear - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 8 - head and arms robots with electronic testing gear - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 9 - head and arms robots repairing equipment - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 10 - head and arms robots welding and sleeping on construction site - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 11 - head and arms robots in hard hats playing a prank - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 12 - head and arms robots in hard hats repairing computer equipment - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 13 - head and arms robots in hard hats - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots repairing a space ship in space detail 14 - head and arms robot chauffeur - illustration and design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

I've been working on the logo for a couple of days and here are some of the different variations.

AZR-0 robots concept logo design 1 - design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots concept logo design 2 - design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots concept logo design 3 - design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots concept logo design 4 - design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

AZR-0 robots concept logo design 5 - design by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)


Monday, October 19, 2015

AZR0 Curio & Co. Robots?!?

Since the last post robot post I've been continuing to work on things and the more I drew for fun the more things started to take shape.  More and more.  I'll just leave things there at the moment, at least until we are ready to say more… but in the mean time you'll get to see some more robot sketches, vehicles ideas, and 2 details of a robot composition that I'm working on (those are the last two images of this post).

I think we'll call these little guys Azr0

Azr0 - Robots for Fun!


Red pencil sketch of Azr0 robots on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Detail 1 form red pencil sketch of Azr0 robots on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Detail 2 form red pencil sketch of Azr0 robots on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Detail 3 form red pencil sketch of Azr0 robots on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Sketches of Azr0 robots - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Sketches detail 1 of Azr0 robots - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Sketches detail 2 of Azr0 robots - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Sketches detail 3 of Azr0 robots - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Azr0 robots pencil sketches on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Detail of Azr0 robot pencil sketches on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Vehicle sketches for Azr0 robots - pencil sketches on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Vehicle sketche for Azr0 robots - pencil sketches on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Vehicle sketche for Azr0 robots with logo design- pencil sketches on animation paper - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Azr0 robots Illustration comp detail 1 of work in progress - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)
Azr0 robots Illustration comp detail 2 of work in progress - by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Curio & Co. Prints Avaialbe Online At Atelier Olschinsky Art Store

Happy Monday!

Some of our Curio & Co. prints are now available at Atelier Olschinsky Art Store


Our month long Curio & Co - Let's Play art show at the Olschinsky Gallery came down this weekend (some good things come to an end). We stopped by the gallery on Saturday to see the show one last time, take a few pictures, and set some dinner plans.  
But our collaboration with the Atelier Olschinsky is moving on, for starters the gallery will continue to display some of our pieces even during the upcoming DAVOR GROMILOVIC art show which is opening tomorrow evening (stop by, we'll be there). 
Also, if you happen to stop by the gallery in Vienna you will also get the chance to see and purchase our 5 art publicationFinding Frank and His Friend, Time for Frank and His Friend, Frank and His Friend Special Collectors Edition Vol.1, The Gadabout TM 1050 Time Machine User's Manual, and Spaceman Jax Through the Mantagon Mine Fields. And to keep things in line with our Let's Play show they will also be caring  our art issue of the Tarot of Musterberg deck.

And as I fist mentioned as of today we are now part of their artists featured on their online store.  

This is a Happy Monday!

Wednesday, October 07, 2015

Curio & Co. And Their Robots!

Here are a couple more robots, and just as an aside: last night I had an idea of what to do with some of these robots!  Now all I have to do is do it.

Marker sketch of cute little robot waving - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Marker sketch of cute little robot floating in space - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Marker sketch of cute little space man / alien on a rock - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Red pencil sketch of cute little robot on lunar surface - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Red pencil sketch of cute little robot reading - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Red pencil sketch of cute little robot surprised - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Red pencil sketch of cute little robot flying - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)

Red pencil sketch of cute little robot flying to work - Illustration by Cesare Asaro - Curio & Co. (Curio and Co. OG - www.curioandco.com)