Thank you so much Will!!! Here you guys go...it's not much but it's mine!!!
http://www.zefhix.com/images/keithhotrod.JPG

Congrats Keith :thumbsup:

Congrats Keith.

Not trying to take away any of your thunder, but how many times is Hot Rod Magazine going to $hit on me? Every single time I have had work featured in that magazine, they go out of their way to crop my name out of my artwork. When will it stop?

First was Tyler's car, where they put John McBride and GMP Die-Cast RIGHT OVER where I had my name on the image.

Next was the yellow 71 Chevelle I did for Detroit Locker, where they cropped the image to keep my name off of it and made no mention whatsoever that I had anything to do with the project.

In that same issue, I was featured alongside several other artists. I was given the smallest amount of space of all the artists, yet had only 3 days to finish their project, while every other artist had two weeks or more.

I don't understand it. I'm not trying to sound like some Primadonna, but Hot Rod seems to be doing it almost on purpose. PHR and Car Craft were both great about giving credit, leaving my name on the images AND giving me credit in the write-up. I'm not asking to be mentioned in the article itself, just to leave my images unaltered. Resized I can understand, but cropping my name out isn't cool with me.

Tell me if I'm out of line, but it's just happened every time and I'm feeling kinda burned by it.

Again, congrats Keith, the car will be awesome and I'm glad it's getting the press it deserves!

Kris

I went back through the files I sent Keith and found that my name was not cropped out of the image. It was erased. That's worse than just cropping it out. Someone there must not like me very much. I've attached the image. I resized it to be a reasonable attachment size, but still have the original image on file as well.

Kris

Yup, they went to him exactly as you sent me. Sorry Kris....
Actually, I told him to erase it because you didn't call me when you were in town for the construction convention ;)

I knew that'd bite me in the ass. We flew out early, around 4pm. Caught an earlier flight. Then when I realized I forgot to call you I was like "f**k Keith, I hate that guy." So...yeah. No call for you. :D Sorry man!

Kris

Yup...and I thought "NO! F*&K Kris, he's not getting any credit"!!! :D
If it's any consolation, he included my web address at the end of the article and if you click the links page, you're on top. I just saw a 2000+ spike in hits yesterday and set the site up for unlimited bandwidth for the upcoming traffic from when everyone else gets their copy!

Congrats, Keith! That's damn cool!

Hey, I'm new here, but I had to say, congratulations!
Great job!

Kris,

This may not be the answer but if you added your name directly under the car maybe they won't crop it. Just a thought.

Congrats on the article Keith!