LUNCH TIME SPECIAL

Boston Market, Clifton, NJ 1-27-12

2012-01-29T14:43:00.000-08:00

Jim Dandy's, East Rutherford, NJ 1-20-12

2012-01-22T11:51:00.000-08:00

Top:

Damian Gonzalez - Saint

Bottom:

Jesse Hernandez - Cowboy
Justin - Hunchback
Craig Parrillo - Mutant Baby Thing

Carlos Sketches-2004

2011-12-20T06:55:00.000-08:00

Looking through some old envelopes, I found copies I had made of some sketches by Carlos back when we worked together at AME (American Marketing Enterprises, a kids apparel company in NYC, now part of the Li and Fung group of companies) in 2004. I also found an original of a sketch he did of me. I thought they were all pretty cool so scanned them in and here they are.

Subway Lunch Jam 12-2-11

2011-12-02T20:03:00.001-08:00

After many a moon, an actual lunch time jam. Maybe, with some luck, we'll have these on a more regular basis in the new year. Top to bottom, the drawings are by Craig Parrillo, Jesse Hernandez and myself, Justin Leiter.

Monster Kitty by Craig Parrillo

2011-06-10T07:29:00.001-07:00

Sketched during a company meeting at work.

WELCOME..MR. CRAIG PARRILLO!

2010-11-18T20:11:00.000-08:00

Here are a few work doodles from Craig Parrillo...welcome to the blog!

Bottom Feeder

2010-10-23T07:26:00.001-07:00

This is a sketch that my friend at work, Craig, drew, while we were working on concepts for Halloween designs. I thought it might be cute to have him trick or treating, so I redrew it (traced from Craig's initial sketch) and added the candy basket.

The idea was nixed, (our project manager said he looked like 'a bottom feeder') but our other friend at work, Jesse, saw the drawing and asked to ink it. So here it is in all it's (semi) slimy glory.

- Justin

She's A Lady

2010-04-13T17:10:00.001-07:00

By Carlos and Justin.

Moses

2010-04-13T06:29:00.001-07:00

By Rob Israel and Justin.

William : Keeper Of The Cosmic All - 2009

2010-01-09T20:27:00.000-08:00

Life drawings

2009-12-29T19:44:00.000-08:00

Justin by Carlos

guy at cafe and Carlos by Justin

More Old Sketches

2009-12-11T19:01:00.000-08:00

Top to bottom we have:

The Shadow/Creature/Sketch page/Horned Beast/Girl w/ Gun - Justin
Super-Rob/Girls/Sara/Kissing Fish - Carlos
Frankie - Rob

More Random Sketches

2009-12-05T22:05:00.000-08:00

A few more things from some older lunch time special sketchbooks. From top to bottom,

Little Snail of Horrors - Carlos, Rob and Justin

The Desperado Demolisher - Rob, Carlos and Justin

Starship Pooper - Justin, Rob and Dan

Boombox Head - Derek Santiago

Girl- Derek

a backlog of drawings

2009-11-26T21:55:00.000-08:00

There are lots of drawings from the last few years yet to be posted on the Lunch Time Special, so this is the first of a series of posts of art that never made it to this blog before.

From the top....

Steam-Punk robot - Carlos and Justin
Kid Cthulu-Carlos, Justin and Rob
The Butcher-Carlos, Justin and Rob
Weeble Girl-Carlos
Hippo-Carlos and Rob
Orc-Justin
Trojan M&M?-Rob
Running Donut-Rob
Bigfoot-Rob, drawn on a paper bag

HOOTER

2009-10-26T04:33:00.000-07:00

Contributing artists were Carlos Vega, Dan Springer, Charles Valderrama, Gerard Flannory, Louis Narcisse, Justin Leiter, Jim Wendol, Lou Womble and Rob Kramer.

WAR CRY!

2009-10-06T08:35:00.001-07:00

MY BRUSH PEN WAS RUNNING OUT OF INK. SOOOO..

Frankeyestein love

2009-06-15T11:53:00.000-07:00

The long awaited collaboration of Rob Justin and Carlos is here. i present FRANKEYESTEIN LOVER!

NYCC AFTER-SHOW JAM

2009-04-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

This one was done as a big jam piece, after the first day of the 2009 New York City Comic Con at a diner on 9th ave. Pencils by Carlos, Aaron (sorry, bro I took the nips out!), Louis, Marcos and Bradley. Inks and tones by Justin.

Warrior Woman

2009-04-16T18:35:00.000-07:00

Carlos and Justin, 2008 Kinokuniya, 1073 Avenue of the Americas, NYC.

Devilish

2009-04-16T18:31:00.000-07:00

Justin and Rob. 11/16/08, Europa Cafe, 1412 Broadway, NYC.

The Frankenstein Monster

2009-01-19T11:30:00.000-08:00

Drawn by Justin at lunch and home.

Gamorean Guard

2009-01-18T19:25:00.000-08:00

Justin has a go at the pig-like guards of Jabba's Palace in Return Of The Jedi. Co-Erase red pencil, Staedtler brush marker, Copic Markers and a little bit of Photoshop.

Vader

2009-01-08T20:36:00.000-08:00

Pencil sketch by Carlos, finished pencils by Justin.

Risraelmonster

2009-01-06T11:45:00.000-08:00

It's the moment we have all been waiting for. The robot-armed monster finish courtesy of Rob Israel. Buy his original art on his Etsy site:

Robert Israel's Etsy Page

With Friends Like These...

2009-01-02T18:33:00.001-08:00

...you can't help but be inspired. A selection of drawings by a few guest artist friends.

Top to bottom the artists are:

Dan Springer

Dan Springer

Derek Santiago

Juan Doe

Obama

2008-12-15T02:17:00.000-08:00

By Carlos.

Karyn

2008-12-15T02:15:00.000-08:00

By Carlos.

IRON FIST

2008-12-15T02:13:00.000-08:00

By Carlos.

JIZZ BUCKET

2008-12-15T02:04:00.001-08:00

One day at lunch rob was venting about someone at work and he used the word "jizz bucket" to describe their personality.
I had nothing to draw so I drew a literal interpretation of a jizz bucket. Inks by Justin.

Rob's Monster

2008-12-15T01:56:00.000-08:00

This is a work in progress by Rob Israel. He only joins us for lunch on comic Wednesday,and works on it for 5 to 10 min. at a time. Maybe he can finish it some time this year.

Brush Pen and Copic Marker sketches

2008-12-09T20:40:00.001-08:00

Iron Man and the zombie were done at home.

I've been having a lot of fun with my new copic markers as you can tell here. I love the way they blend and the effects and build up of tones you can get with them. They're expsensive, but worth it. All drawings by Justin.

Berserker

2008-11-25T20:45:00.001-08:00

WITCH

2008-10-31T13:20:00.000-07:00

Gentleman Bones

2008-09-28T21:27:00.000-07:00

Vega and Leiter

Copic Marker Sketches

2008-09-28T21:25:00.000-07:00

some drawings by Carlos.

CONAN THE BARBARIAN

2008-08-29T08:08:00.001-07:00

THIS WAS STARTED AT LUNCH, SO I'LL POST IT ON THE LUNCH TIME SPECIAL BLOG. THE FINISH I'LL POST TO
MY BLOG. SLEEPERPROJECTX.BLOGSPOT.COM

Beasts and Hairy Things

2008-08-17T16:20:00.000-07:00

The Dashing Wolfman - pencils and inks by Carlos, with additional inks by Justin.

Stalking - by Justin.

Catchick and Batboy - by Rob, Justin and Carlos.

Batman

2008-08-05T19:33:00.001-07:00

Initial pencils by Carlos, tightened up and inked by Justin.

Quadraped

2008-08-05T19:30:00.000-07:00

This started as one of Justin's usual monster style drawings, which I (Justin) brought to lunch one day. Upon seeing it, Rob did his own version of the monster in an animated style. I'll get around to inking it one of these days....

Lady Chatterly

2008-08-05T19:27:00.001-07:00

pencils by Carlos, inks by Justin.

Damn, That's Spicy!

2008-07-07T19:53:00.000-07:00

The pencil sketch for this was done during lunch and the inks completed at home.

Feed Me

2008-06-30T19:12:00.000-07:00

It's been been some time since the last post here, though not for want of art. I try to make each post somewhat coherent and with some sort of theme, but this one is just some random drawings from the past and present. Hope it fills you up until the next time...

More Heroes

2008-05-10T14:04:00.000-07:00

A few familiar faces and maybe one not so familiar one.

The run down from top to bottom:

Iron Man-pencils by Justin, inks by Rob w/ additional inks by Justin
Iron Man-pencils by Carlos, inks and shading by Justin
Kamen Rider Amazon-loose pencils by Carlos, finishes by Justin
Batman-pencils by Rob, inks by Justin
Superman-pencils by Rob

Guess Who

2008-04-10T19:46:00.000-07:00

A bunch of portraits and self portraits..Carlos draws himself with chopsticks, does three caricatures of Justin, and draws himself as a hitman...Justin draws Carlos squinting in the sun and Dan 'The Caricature King' Springer draws Justin, while never looking at the page...plus a bonus round headed guy! And a new addition - Dan draws Carlos!

Heroes...and Villians

2008-03-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

Here's a sampling of some of the superhero and supervillian drawings that have made their way into our various lunchtime sketchbooks over the last couple of years. The Batman at top was first showcased in it's final colored form last year on Rob's Pencil Box Zoo blog; it's nice to to see it here in all it's black and white glory. The rest of the rundown: Spidey was penciled by Carlos and inked by Justin as was the Iron man pic. Rob contributes solo pencils with a nice Wonder Woman head sketch and Carlos and Justin provide a Penguin and Joker duet, respectively. Rob chimes in again with a super-sweet straight-jacketed Joker. Finally, two pieces that predate the Lunch Time Special, but were in the same sketchbook as a bunch of these - Rob's beefed up take on Underdog and a surprise guest! Good 'ol JESSE HERNANDEZ makes a welcome and unexpected venture into blogging territory with his very cool 2004 version of Hellboy!

The Ladies of Star Wars

2008-03-20T21:06:00.000-07:00

We're sorta breaking our own unwritten rules here. These drawings weren't technically done during lunch, but they are some of the first collaborations between Justin and Carlos to make it into a sketchbook and are the first drawings in the sketchbook that a good amount of the drawings to follow come from.

We're going back now almost three years; this series was begun way back in 2005. All the pencils are by Carlos and the inks are by Justin.

All You Can Eat Buffet

2008-03-18T19:00:00.000-07:00

Welcome To the Lunch Time Special! This new blog is going to showcase the art that our lunch time crew - Justin Leiter, Carlos Vega and Rob Kramer - have done in our various sketchbooks when we meet up for lunch. A good portion of the pieces are jams - one of us will get it started and the rest add to it, usually with fairly silly results. There will also be a good number of solo drawings. We'll try and give credit where credit is due when appropriate.

We'll be adding new art to the page as time goes on, but first we're going to post a slew of the drawings that we've done over the last couple of years. And there's a lot of drawings! One or two might have shown up on our various blogs at one time or another, so there could be a double post here or there, but for the most part it's all going to be previously unseen art. Amidst the drawings from us three muskateers there might be a few cameos as well from friends that have joined us at lunch at one time or another. It should be fun!

First up here is 'The Colonel', drawn at the now defunct Food Court in the Manhattan Mall one afternoon in August 2007. Rob got this one started by drawing the face and I believe the cord coming out of the back of his head, Carlos added the body and colors (later on at work) and Justin inked it! Hope you dig. More to come!