Star Wars Comic Cover

RBMC jam piece cover for the 2015 charity raffle at Carol & John's comic shop in Cleveland!

They call him......Tim

Our Pal Tim is all sorts of good.  

Good dude, good Illustrator, good builder of giant easels, good friend, good everything.  Exchange those goods for great and my description may be getting close.  One of the most generous Artists to paint with, happy to throw down and amazing, upside down frog or to be the glue, painting in background elements or give things just the right touch ups to make other elements shine.  He possesses a keen eye, a quick brush and a steady hand and we are fortunate to to have him as a fellow Monster.

Want to see Tim for yourself?  Going to be in Columbus, Ohio July 18,19?  Then stop by the Small Press and Comics Expo THIS WEEKEND at the Northland Performing Arts Center.  And while you are there make sure to see some of our favorite people: Clare Kolat (conveniently located at the table next to Tim), Angela Oster and Ashley Ribblett!!!

Erin's BIG hugs!

Truth, Justice, Hugs!

Avengers Assemble Hugs!

The Guardians of the Galaxy are Hooked on a Hug!

Here are the BIG hugs I did for Carol and John's Comics Free Comic Book Day! All three will be available as prints at the event Friday, May 1st and Saturday, May 2nd, along with tons of other merch!

Gauntlet #3, Tim

Gauntlet #3 ...See! I'm doing this! I really am ...I swear! The third gauntlet challenge was "Young, Outlaw, Mad Scientist".

Gauntlet #3 "Young, Outlaw, Mad Scientist"

Yes I am actually doing that Gauntlet thing too - Tim

"Yes I am actually doing that Gauntlet thing too" - Tim Switalski.

Famous last words....so I'm a little behind. The Gauntlet was thrown last week...and I didn't post anything. Well, here are a couple this week.

Gauntlet #2 - the Reckless, Marooned, Sensei  

Gauntlet #1 - Armed, Evil Mentor, Space Marine

Hopefully I will have 3 more in the next few days.

-Tim

Thwipp!

Who doesn't love a comic book crossover? Not me. Anyway, this piece was drawn for a comic book pinup show happening at Breakneck Gallery in Lakewood, OH; this coming Saturday (Feb 21st).

This lil' doodle was drawn digitally, using photoshop, but the the piece hanging in the show was printed on paper toned using tea, which created a very cool vintage magazine pinup look to the print. If your in the neighborhood, come check it out.

-Tim 

Happy 3rd Anniversary!!!!

 This is us, three years ago. 

Our first mural gig and we didn't even know it.  The first annual Bal Ingenieux for Ingenuity Cleveland.  Having started this blog only a few months before we were commissioned  as a group of Art performers and we had the bright idea to create a comic, from start to finish in one night.  

One group start a story on one side of the room.

The other group on the opposite side.

6 Artists, using cut paper, markers, whatever we had just making stuff up on the fly.  Just getting to know each other, playing it safe, you stay in your frame and I'll stay in mine. The only collaboration was in the story and that's all.

  That is till we got to the splash page in the middle.

IT WAS FUN!!!  

Way more fun than the panels we were working on to the sides, (doubt those even exist anymore).  We bumped elbows, worked on each other's drawings (we didn't paint as much then as we do now) and created something much more satisfying together than what we worked on alone. We were hooked!

In three years we are 30+ murals in.  We've grown as Artists from working together, we've had the opportunity to work in some amazing and humbling venues, work with great people and in short become a family.

Thank you all for your support these amazing three years. 

STAY TUNED!!!!!  

2015 is already shaping up to be a HUGE year!

Hail to the King!

Happy Birthday Mr. Kirby (yes, I know...i'm a day early, August 28th is the King's birthday)! Thanks for sharing your imagination with the world, and inspiring countless others to do the same.

The RBMC made these stickers to commemorate the day, and raise some money for the Hero Initiative (a publicly supported not-for-profit organization dedicated to raise money for comic book creators in dire need), they'll be available at Carol & John's Comics in Cleveland, Ohio.

-Tim

Want me to turn this up for ya?

Decided to throw a little color in my brush pen experiments. And why not, old school, limited color screen print style!?  

It's on like Qui Gon!!!

I see your Deadman.....

..and Boba Fett, 

and raise you a BRAK!!!

I've been playing around with a brush pen a lot lately and love it so you will be seeing more here soon.  The thing I always love about working with ink is it teaches you when you are done and how much you need and how much you don't need.

Happy Mothers Day....

Greetings and salutations,

Tis me...Reverand Jim, doing my best to keep posting when I can. This sketch was something started at Drink'N Draw on Wednesday in my sketch book...and it felt like something that needed finished. I'd like to do a final piece for this...work out the the details of the hands and weapons in the foreground....the breast feeding infant...
Anyways at Drink 'N Draw we had asked, for those that wanted to participate, to do your best strong female character. Instead of the obvious..( Wonder Woman, Power Girl...Supergirl...etc.,.) I had this vision in my head of a mother trying to breast feed her child.....and then rouge Ronin...lowlife thugs happening upon her, thinking they would have their way with her. A bad mistake...Sword drawn and still performing her motherly duty, she waits ready to cleave the first man dumb enough to come within distance of her katana. I'm a huge fan of Koike & Kojimas Lone Wolf and Cub. And this kind of just fell into place...and on my sketchbook...see you soon. Stay frosty.
J~

Tim's 120 minute Boba Fett

So, do you guys remember the 'challenges' that we used to do here? Well I've been missing drawing them, so i'm going to do my best to bring them back! This week...Boba Fett!

Next Week: DC Comics Deadman!

Quick Little Spidey Doodle

It's been awhile since I posted anything here (or any where). I've been pretty busy (like everyone else), but I'm going to work on changing that, starting with this little doodle.

Werewolf

Day 3/31: Werewolf

the Pale Man

The "Pale Man" from the movie Pan's Labyrinth.

Tales from the Rust Belt

BOO! Ah-hahahahah ...it's baaack (October)!

Greetings boys and ghouls, October is "Monster Month" here at the Rust Belt blog, and to celebrate the best month of the year, we'll be filling this thing with fearsome frights and devilish delights!  

We've chained our creepy contributors to their drawing tables and "convinced"(mercilessly tortured) them to draw (until their bleeding crippled digits fall off) an eerie new etching every day in October!

So stay tuned...it's going to be a hell of a ride Ah-Hahahahaha!

-the "Management"

Great Lakes Brewing Company's 25th Anniversary Block Party

This past Friday, the RBMC assembled outside of Cleveland's famous Great Lakes Brewing Company to create this GLBC themed action painting during the brewery's 25th anniversary block party celebration!

For eleven hours we slung, splattered, and sprayed the paint, pulverizing what was to start with, 12 feet of pristine white masonite, and had a (expletive deleted)  blast doing it!

If you weren't one of the hundreds of people to stop by and see us painting, never fear, now through the magic of the interwebs, you too can gorge your eyes on all this gooey art goodness!

Many thanks (and happy 25th birthday) to everyone at the GLBC for having us, it was awesome!

Tim's Random Sketch

Been pretty busy lately, so here a little drawing of sci-fi astronauts riding giant space bees, from last weeks Drink & Draw CLE. 

-Tim

Sultry gun slingin

Afternoon. Welcome back to my continued exploration of my boyhood crushes. (Hey...consider yourself lucky. At least you can look away or head to another site. This stuff's in my brain.)

At the tippy top of the heap is this ravishing young lady. Once I saw Raquel in Fantastic Voyage...and the hormone altering One Million Years B.C....I was in love. She has remained, at least in my eyes, one if the truly beautiful women in cinema. Hannie Caulder, is probably one if my favorite films of hers. A fantastic revenge western..starring Robert Culp, Jack Elam, Ernest Borgnine, Christopher Lee....and of course Raquel. This was a quick pencil sketch...same size as yesterday's. 5x8...see ya next week.

Schoolboy crushes...

Greetings and salutations. No....this is not Tim Switalski. Reverend Jim here....Tim had a last minute emergency...something about tracking down a cosmic cube...battling his evil stepbrother and defending the bridge to Valhalla. Sheesh some guys will do anything to keep from posting. 

So I volunteered to post for today and tomorrow. Lucky you.

So I've been thinking lately of all the women in comics or cinema, that I've had boyhood crushes on. (Must be an elderly thing)..So for the next few weeks I'll be using that to polish up on drawing the female figure.

I'd like to start with the lovely Pam Grier. I grew up in the late 60's and 70's. A great time in cinema. Grindhouse flicks were in full swing. It was a different time with different mind sets. There were not a lot of committees and parents groups enforcing age restrictions in most movie houses. So it was pretty easy for a teen to get in to an "R" rated flick. Sure...there were a lot...A LOT... Of badly made movies. But there were also a ton of great ones. Pam...was one of my first actress crushes... She was beautiful but could kick some serious ass. Films like Coffy, my first, welded her curvaceous form and bitchin attitude into my pre-pubescent noggin for eternity. This was a quick pen and ink sketch on 5x8 sketch paper. Enjoy...and see yuse tomorrow.