Autobot Hotrod Earth mode design sketch for IDW's Transformers comic. He made his Earth mode debut in "Devastation". I tried to retain as much of the design elements from Nick Roche's Cybertronian design as possible.
Dodge Viper is actually not a very easy vehicle to transform especially if I want to keep much of the original car transformation scheme. Viper has an extremely long hood, which is one of the element that makes the vehicle sexy. After the tranformation, the hood has been shortened quite a bit more than my liking in order to make the robot mode more well-proportioned.
I really like your work on Transformers, I wished that you could do another Mecha book in near future for the advanced artists. I would buy that book too.