Hot Rod Art Book “Scratching” to the Top

Following up on Dwayne Vance’s new book called: The Hot Rod Art book: Masters of Chicken Scratch, I caught up with Dwayne at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona (damn that was a good time!) The book will be officially released on February 10, 2009 and judging from the buzz at GNRS, the books already of to a great star!

There were about 100 advanced copies available at the Grand National Roadster Show, but they sold out! It’s no wonder when 8 of the 13 artists featured in the book were at the show and ready to sign their pages of your brand new book.

Several artists stopped by and checked out my book at the show including: Chip Foose, Steve Strope, Carter Hickman, Eric Black, Larry Wood, and many others to check out the book. The book’s also going to be featured in Rod and Custom magazine as well as Hemmings Auto news.

Here are some pictures from the Grand National Roadster show. From left to right in this photo are Steve Stanford (Hot Rod Artist Legend), Jimmy Smith, Brian Stupski, and Dwayne Vance

For those of you that have not yet heard of this “Hot Rod Art Book”, it is a unique book of over 100 pages of beautiful hot rod art from thirteen very talented artists including Dwayne Vance, Brian Stupski, Randy Ricklefs, John Bell, Eric Brockmeyer, Michael Miernik, Max Grundy, Jimmy Smith, James Owens, Justin Chin, Thom Taylor, Larry Wood, and Steve Stanford. Also included is a CD that contains over an hour and a half of instruction content. Please visit www.hotrodartbook.com for more details as well as more pictures or to order your copy!

You can also preview the book at MyRideisMe.com in the first story we did. Hot Rod Art Book

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Hot Rod Art Book by Designer Dwayne Vance

The Hot Rod Art book: Masters of chicken scratch is a book of 13 highly respected and talented artists from the industry.

While I am fairly new to the art and design scene in the Hot Rod world, I know many people in the industry from my years working as a designer for Hot Wheels. (Dwayne designed one of my favorite hot wheels) I now have my own design company and still do design work for Hot Wheels as well as several other companies. I design things from snowmobiles to concepts for video games. I started doing Hot Rod art about a year and a half ago and it only fueled my passion for the automobile. My fascination with cars began at a very early age. I grew up around cars and rebuilt my first muscle car at the age of 16 with my dad. I attended the Art Center College of design and received my degree in transportation design. My professional design career started with Troy Lee Designs in Corona, California, as a designer of high-end motocross protective gear. I then became a senior designer for Mattel, Hot Wheels Division. I developed everything from Hot Wheels to entire lines of toys. I then returned to Troy Lee Designs and eventually began my own company “Future Elements”.

I originally began The Hot Rod Art book as a personal portfolio to showcase my hot rod artwork. Once I started the Hot Rod Art book it motivated me to create some new hot rod art for it. Some of the new material I created for the book is very much my personal taste and is highly influenced by WWII aircraft. They go together so well because they all come from the same era. I combined the aircraft and classic cars to create some unique hot rods that you might see on the slat flats. The first part of the book shows the stages I go through to create different pieces of art. The last half of the book contains 12 other artists from up and coming to seasoned veterans like Steve Stanford, Thom Taylor and Larry Wood. I am always inspired by other artists and decided it would be fitting to include them in the book. I began by asking a few of my friends if they were interested in being in the book and they were thrilled about the idea. I then approached Larry Wood about doing the forward in the book. He suggested I ask Thom Taylor and Steve Stanford. As a result the book went from a personal project to a full blown hot rod art book. So please see www.hotrodartbook.com for more information and to preorder your book now.

The video below shows just a clip of the CD that’s included with the book.

Hot Rod Art Book Sample Video from Dwayne Vance on Vimeo.

Here’s a peak inside the book… Make sure you pick one up here: Hot Rod Art book

Complete list of artists featured inside Hot Rod Art Book: Masters of Chicken Scratch include Dwayne Vance, Brian Stupski, Randy Ricklefs, John Bell, Eric Brockmeyer, Michael Miernik, Max Grundy, Jimmy Smith, James Owens, Justin Chin, Thom Taylor, Larry Wood, Steve Stanford.