Proposed Skateboard Deck

I recently made this for a friendly local skate company. Putting it together was an epic ten-scan endeavor that, after some clean up and some quick color editing, amounts to what you see below:

The horribly pixelated red line is an estimate of the board's shape and orientation, just to give the drawing some context.

Statue Heads

Today's Ink

Ink, Blackbirds, and Dine Fan Art

A few more experiments with calligraphy pens, brushes and broad-tipped markers.

Hand Lettering

I was playing with an ITOYA calligraphy marker and these are a few of my favorites from today.

Chatterbox Audio Theater

I was asked to provide an illustration for this years's Halloween program on WKNO's Chatterbox Audio Theater, a task that a very talented friend handled last year. I had lot of fun working with the eerie subject matter and there will hopefully be more to come from this. You should definitely check out the program Halloween night on WKNO-FM. If you miss the original broadcast, it will be available on the Chatterbox Audio Theater site.

Commission Row

Here's the first round of commissions for the travel fundraiser. I'm still taking requests, so send an email to me@derrickent.com if you want to get that drawing you never got around to asking for, but always wanted ;)

Thanks!

NOVA

Here's my Nova redesign put through an Ancient Egyptian filter. Lots of fun experimenting with hand drawn layers of texture.
Side note: I need to quit making pieces that require large format scanning when I don't have a large format scanner.

Life Over AIDS Exhibition at Caritas Village

I recently submitted a piece for the "Life Over AIDS" show, hosted by Caritas Village. The exhibition is intended is to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. I drew the image above after reading this list of statistics from The Centers for Disease Control website, which states:

"At some point in their life, approximately one in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV..."

That's a pretty scary (and small) number, especially when dealing with HIV and AIDS. I'm part of the aforementioned demographic, so that stat also strikes a personal chord.

For info about Caritas Village and the show, follow this link.

"Daily" Doodles

I slipped a bit with the posting, but these are a few fun headshots I drew after finishing some less entertaining work.

Daily Doodles and Project Sketchbook Preview

I don't want to make any promises, but I think I'm starting to pick up a bit of a sketchbook bug, enough so to motivate more posting. The top two spreads are from today and the bottom three are from my contribution to Project Sketchbook.

More Sketchbook!

A couple more recent spreads.

Storm

This is my contribution to this week's Superhero Cocoa blog theme. Comments and feedback are always welcome :)

Sketchbook Scraps

Midnight Classic!

One of the biggest organized rides in Memphis is happening this weekend! If you've got a bike, and you're in Memphis, and you like, I don't know... FUN, you should totally participate in this year's event. Go to midnightclassicbiketour.org for more details!

Memphis Daily News/Project Sketchbook

(photo by Lance Murphy)

From this past Tuesday's edition of Memphis Daily News, which featured a story about Project Sketchbook. I normally try to keep my face out of the blog a much as possible, but I was pretty excited about the article. My credentials were apparently more impressive than I remembered- I had no idea that I held a MASTER' DEGREE! If only I could find some printed copies of the paper...

Red Dead Daredevil

This is my late 19th century Daredevil for the Superhero Cocoa blog.

Catwoman Reimagined

So, there's been a bit of a comic-character-redesign bug stirring about, and it's finally gotten to me. I chose to redesign Catwoman, but instead of a variant of her existing costume, I made a bit of a departure from the well known design.

Oh Yeah...

...an update on the Illustration Academy piece.