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Published: 2007-04-28 04:10:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 14249; Favourites: 248; Downloads: 0
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Rendering for my personal hot rod project.... hybrid of two great Chevrolet designs that look as though they SHOULD have been made as one: 1969 Camaro RS front clip, lower doors and rear quarters on a 1971 Nova.I had drawn this up many times over the years, built scale models, and spent many sleepless nights obsessing over the right way to do it.... and now it's ON!
As always, Illustrator artwork created using original pencil roughs... background created using pen tool, scanned found objects for texture, and the amazing Troy White's Grifter set.
Look for coverage of the actual build on my site, and possibly a sneak peek at the rear end treatment.
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Comments: 63
Arrrhhhh that car will definitely give me wet dreams
Man I adore the car, I love the style, I admire you.
Great job
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OMFG! thats amazing
!!!amazing!!!
how do you do that! you must make a tutorial!
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You just made my week! Thanks for that!
As soon as it slows down a bit, I will create a tutorial... thanks for the interest!
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Very nice work! I really love the color combo.
FYI: It's a vexel because you scanned in textures for the background. 
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Thanks! ...for the great compliment, and for setting my mind at ease! Much appreciated!
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wuauu!! i like it very much, you are the best with vector...
I like your technique
Sorry for my english...
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Thanks so much! I'm humbled by your praise!
..and please, no apologies, your English is great!
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jajaj my english is bad, i dont know...
Congratutalions for your techniques....
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This was chosen as one of our Vectors/Vexels Of The Week. Congratulations!
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Dang dude that is f**ing awsome my 2'nd fav muscle ever!
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Look for another Truckin' and Rod and Custom as well! Updates soon on issue... and thanks for the interest and support! I'm flattered!
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it's no biggy, really. well, yes it is. i can say as a friend and fellow custom car enthusiast i wish to support you in any way i can!
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Thanks so much everyone! I'll try to dig up some photos of the old scale models (moving many times over the years left little of them -- although I do have two kits waiting in the wings!)
I sincerely appreciate all of the great comments and support... should be a fun project, and I'll try to keep updated photos both here and on my site as we start cutting away!
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love love love!!! as a car manic i must exprss my luv by favin!!
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dude....shit yeah....that is just pure killer awesome.
nice idea on the front switch. cant wait to see the real thing.
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It's gonna be a while as we cut and splice, and get everything right! Thanks so much, and look for updates!
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HOLLLYYYY SHIT! That's sexy as hell!!! Is that a hatchback I notice? So original!!
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Wow, that looks great... Good job with that one!
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excellent work, 
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Admin had suggested that I place my work in Vexel art... I'm assuming because I tend to use shapes (drawn mostly with the pen tool and no brushes) to get the look of my work. Everything starts off as a pencil-on-paper rough, and gets scanned in, and essentially re-drawn in Illustrator (to keep a hand-frawn look, first and foremost -- but also to allow for drastic editing/changes later on.)
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still .... it's illustrator. can't BE vexel as far as i'm concerned. you happen to be my fav artist in the car world and it's an added bonus that we use the same software for me .... so when then they make you (i mean, suggest that you) put it under vexel, i just wanna bust some heads. it's ok though ... i know to look for you here now.
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I understand, and I'm more thn willing to obey Admin... it is their house, after all, and I'm just happy to be here and share my work! I wonder if it's because I don't start with a photo that it doesn't fall under "vector"... either way, it's here, and I'm happy!
Thanks for the compliments, man! I've seen your stuff over on Lat-G (where it seems I never have time for), and dig your stuff, as well! Illustrator has been a blessing, as I'm going through some stuff with my hands that just wouldn't allow me to push my work on paper anymore... Greatest tool in my arsenal...
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yeah i hear ya ... they seem pretty cool around here anyway and it's a great place.
I wish there was a little more going on at lat-g cause i think for artists it HAS to be a great place to drum up business with all those car guys and magazine guys hanging around. Do you just do this freelance or do you have a second job type deal?
let me just say, if some of the guys where around who originally developed the camaro and saw this, they'd be kicking themselves for not thinking of it then ... especially when they were calling it the Panther huh? 
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This is my full-time gig... how I feed three kids, a wife, and a dog! I went out on my own a year ago (after designing off-road stuff and web sites -- there's a hot combo!)
Thanks for the kind words, and glad that I have some influence, other than serving as a warning of what not to do... I'd like to pick your brain a bit, and witness your technique.
And yeah, the Panther name has been stuck on it since around High School, as a kind of tip-of-the-hat to the original Camaro concept (obviously!) It's gonna be a wild build, and after waiting 20+ years to do this, I'm just glad to have finally figured a lot of it out.
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it's getting serious. i'm going through shifts now since seeing your work and last night i started a pencil drawing just because of this conversation. i'd really like to be full time but i'm in the midwest (having trouble spreading the word), i feel like i'm coming into the game late, and i don't have previous "job" experience. I've been drawing with illustrator for almost 10 years which shocks me to even say but i've only been trying to make an income of it for maybe 4 ... it's all been guess work and i'm sure that doesn't really help but i'm bull headed. my way or the highway i guess.
anyway, this is going to be a tight car and no doubt PHR will be knocking at your door when they see it. you can pick my brain any time. my process for a long time ... let's just be honest ... is tracing, like most vector and vexel art. obviously i'm not ragging myself or other artists who do this but you can say your art originated in your head through your hands ya know. and it's true that my older drawings have taught me buckets just by really putting my pen tool on every detail of some fantastic hot rods but now ... i want to do my OWN ... my very OWN work. ref material will always be important but i feel like you deserve more credit with your art. plenty of people would disagree because it takes plenty of skill just to USE illustrator successfully but this is for me personally i guess. my custom charger was the first step but at the same time, your work is so unique that i hate to make anything even remotely close. then again (this is my brain at work ... constantly weighing both sides) i really don't like the way illustrator artists are going right now with mesh and 3D-like effects so i'm actually leaning toward a traditional style. i'm rambling and none of it's important.
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well, I will take a little in translating all this
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I design them, and have been fortunate to have made friends with some very talented builders... my abilities in building are centered more on finish work, paint prep, and final paint finish (i.e. wet-sanding/polishing). I'm an amateur builder at best!
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Better than me. All I can do is check ATF, oil, water, refill water, oil, washer fluid, wash & vaccuum the car. I've never even tried waxing.
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That's interesting. I was curious what's wrong with the rear until I read the description
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That's something I never would've thought of, and it's an ingeinus combo... makes the already sexy long hood seem even longer.
Don't kill me for saying but it almost looks Javelin-esque now. ESQUE, mind you. Or being set farther back it has more of a Viper distribution to it.
Very nice... But if you had to cut up two cars to make it, I'd rather have the two
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I've always been a fan of the AMC's, and I think that as we start building, you'll see some of that come through in the lower front valance... Good thing is, with reproduction sheetmetal, we're only cutting up one! I couldn't bear (or afford!) to slice and dice two.... Thanks for the time and comment!
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Love the idea! it's get a few "hey looks theres a...hang on thats not ...what?" Have you got any photos of the scale models you could post up?
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