We like our art here on RSM so imagine our excitement when we saw some great stuff appearing over on the message boards at Japanese Nostalgic Car. We fired off an email to the artist with a few questions in the hope of finding out a bit more about the man himself:

Name - Dennis Salnikov

Location - Royal Oak, Michigan, USA

Age - 28

What do drive? - '78 Nissan 280z and '97 Nissan 240sx - both on-going projects.

Dream garage - Some of the cars on the list: Nissan kpgc10 through R35 Skylines, Mazda FD3 RX7, Toyota MKV supra, '68 Camaro, c6 z06 Corvette, the list goes on and on and on...

What is your drawing/illustration process and what equipment do you use - I start out with a rough sketch, either on paper or directly on the tablet. afterwards I scan it in, and continue the illustration in photoshop, sometimes corel painter.

How much do you charge? - Prices vary based on the type of work desired.

Any favourite artists? - Leonardo da Vinci. modern day artists and designers - Ashley Wood, Jon Sibal, Judson Bryant, Julien Montusse, just like the cars, the list goes on.

Day job? - Auto designer

Any other hobbies/interests? Cars of course, architecture, art, interior design, design design design.

Anyone you'd like to thank or anything you'd like to add? - I'd like to thank matt of farm of minds blog, jon sibal, jdmEGO jay for helping me bring my blog and work to life, toyotageek of toyotageek.com as well as the JNC community.

Thanks Dennis!

I guess now it's just time to show you some of his work:

A classic Toyopet Crown commisioned by toyotageek.com .

It's not just the old stuff, check out the detail work in this interpretation of Curtis Chen's time attack Supra.

More new metal in the form of this R32 Skyline.

Another Supra. The illustrations have cartoon-like proportions, but not so much as to seem unreal. What you're seeing is an enthusiast's eye rather than a formulaic 'big wheels and stretched roofline on everything' approach.

Back to the retros, this Z is one of the first Dsalni renderings I saw. It perfectly captures the essence of all that we like about retro cars.

You can reach Dennis (or just look at more pics) via his excellent blog at http://dsalni.wordpress.com . Once again, thanks to Dennis plus an additional thanks to all of those whose cars have appeared here.

Into your auto-art? Find our previous art entries here:

http://www.retroscenemag.com/post/Need-More-Motorvation.aspx

http://www.retroscenemag.com/post/Steve-Kirks-Motorvation.aspx

http://www.retroscenemag.com/post/Bob-Haro-2c-BMX-vs-Car.aspx