Airheaded Vision

I have to say I'm very impressed with this character and like him more and more. You've done a great job of bringing him together and making a very original persona. I love it! I'm always amazed at folks that can stick to a couple of toons. Being the alt-aholic I am I get bored easily and quickly. PS for instance was my first and main toon for about a year and a half. After that I've had a hard time becoming attached to anyone of them. And even PS has been back burnered for so long now. I come up with decent stories for them but never something that I think is so amazing and original that I'd be able to dedicate as much time to as you, Bayani, TA and Caemgen (to name a few) have. I applaud you all!

All the arts are wonderful as well! Keep up the great work and great commissioning!

Caemgen: Acme would do well to bump up the price of cocktail umbrellas. But a duel between the two would be close - where the Road Runner has luck, Airhead has collective stupidity. More likely to be a draw.

PowerStream: Thank you very much! I hope I might someday feature in the same league as Bayani, Thor's Assassin and Caemgen. While Airhead is becomign more consistent, he has also evolved through his arts. His appearance has consolidated. More importantly, this process has helped cement his personality. My Airhead novel suffered from a lack of interesting characters. Now I'm starting to understand his character, and what people find interesting about him. Hopefully I can capture it in words.

Meanwhile I have a bunch of commissions in the works, including efforts by forumites...

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Sure it'd be a draw but it'd be an EPIC DRAW!!

As for leagues, trust me - I'm not in one. Don't want to be in one either. If anyone wants to comparing getting arts to leagues then just consider me some putz playing street hockey with friends and having to move the nets every time a car drives by...

That's to say, I don't compare one gallery to another. Not by size, not by quality, not by money spent, etc... So to me there is no winning or losing and thus no leagues to play in. All this is is more cool arts for me to check out which is always a plus!

If I had to take bets on which character would most be remembered 70 years from now I would put my money on Amerikatt... She doesn't have much art but she has a very memorable cuteness factor!!

70 years - the Amerikatt mantle might have adorned five different cats by then. Yet the fight against the Soul Kitten is eternal!



Airhead just got his own hero-vehicle - the Airacer! Uh, yeah. Defeats villains, and, um, pencils.

Abt-Nihil drew, inked and coloured this racy piece. It all happened when he faved one of my pictures; I glanced at his gallery. He had a fun style, but he also had a promotion, so I came up with a quick concept. Then I found a reference piece, someone put Deadpool on a go-kart. In no time at all, my request became this! I paid a little bit more for the prop, but I still got a lot more than I paid for. Little bit guilty there. I'm really happy with this. Hopefully I can come up with another idea suited to his artistic style.

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Very nifty!!

Great addition to the collection - congrats!


And, boys and girls, you see where you end up if you drink and drive...they won't let you near a real vehicle!

Googling yourself is supposed to be narcissistic. Or worse. So searching for your hero name on DeviantArt is probably worserer. But look what I found!



Which I commissioned. But almost forgot. Then it got posted just a few hours ago and I found it utterly by accident. Twightlight Zone-y.

I like it. It is a bit different to Joe D's other hero pictures. It has more character. And perhaps less cool. But it's totally Airhead. The expression in the window in back is priceless, and his pose - "come-to-papa-wait-time-out" - should have his opponent confused while Airhead does something unexpected. Wile E. Coyote, he's lookin' at you.

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Duuuuude... got curly hair. It's my Sanchez bust! Complete!



Eddy worked some magic on Airhead's hair, and then coloured him perfectly. This is as cool as Airhead gets. Thanks guys!

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this has become one of my favorite threads. For some reason, a guy in a snazzy business ensemble manages to get more interesting pictures than a lot of the supposedly more sensational-looking characters.

Very cool hair touch ups and colors, way to go ES.
Nice addition to your collection Airhead.

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I will settle this. ORANGE FTW! - Ex Libris

I've skipped getting any of my characters Sanchezed (sounds dirty) in spite of the deal because I just don't feel like any of them are all that distinctive from the shoulders up. Oh, I'm sure some of them are but it just hasn't clicked for me.

Airhead, by contrast, was made for the big close-up! It looks great!

Thanks Rodoan, your comment has been an inspiration to a new wave of Airhead commissions.

Thanks CR and Attache. The ES-Sanchez bust is becoming one of my favorites.

Here's a couple of new additions over on my DeviantArt page. First up, a new cover by Jet Amago!



Jet poured in lots of stuff from numerous reference shots I sent him of a troll rave to get this looking so fantastic. Who needs Superadine when you have Airhead?

And then Airhead with a lightsaber! It's already been shown in Measley's thread, but I like it so much I had to put it in this thread too. I tried to tweak the lightsaber to give it more brown glow. Airhead's power even affects light saber crystals. It became a lesson on why things don't usually have a "brown glow".



Thanks to Jet and Measley!

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Congrats Air, love Tac's work, it's like having Jack Kirby back in the world.

I'm tickled to see this thread because I've been following your gallery on DA, and I've often wondered about this character. Now my questions are answered! You have a lot of fantastic art there, and I am glad to finally know the backstory on this guy.

Nice piece from Raddar; what a great 'oops!' moment. Something about that one raised eyebrow on Airhead expresses the haplessness perfectly.

Thanks MS! That actually made my day, and many days after that, when you posted.

I had hoped to post some art with my reply, but my current commissions are taking a bit longer. I know I'm making it harder and harder for my artists. Karma has its revenge, as a bug in I18 beta makes it unplayable on my little computer, and I hope against probability that it will be fixed before the new release. Meanwhile, while I wait through the long dark reboot, here's a montage I chucked together for my desktop. As suggested by *rebelforge on deviantart.

Hopefully I'll be able to keep playing here.

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That came out great Airhead!

It's been a little while for this little guy, been kinda busy, but some opportunities cannot wait. I managed to catch Chamba in exactly the right mood...

"Look at me, I'm a body builder! No wait, I'm SPIDERMAN too! Dude!"
Stay tuned, more on the way, from a resident forum artist! (or three) *drumroll*

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Airhead by the forum's own Juggertha!

Like Chamba, Juggertha has a very distinctive style that is also very versatile. We did discuss a lot about the background of this picture, and I even attempted a thumbnail. But Juggertha put his own stamp on this by coming up with the in-character action and bylines, making this a classic Airhead piece.

More to come! Although not necessarily straight away.

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Impressive snags, Airhead. That Chamba piece is lookin' awesome.

Thanks Bayani. The Chamba piece constantly amazes me. The face is exactly what I'd imagined. Zooming in, it just gets better and better.

I had a chance a little while to get a chibi Airhead. Not because I needed one, but because it was for a good cause - a few dollars towards a rabbit taking a holiday in Chile. Airhead was convinced straight away. What more meaningful cause could there be?

So here tis, a chibi by NeMa's girlfriend exilemage:



I particularly like how he ended up looking a bit like a rabbit.

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It's been a while since I've posted. I have some art taking its own time to materialize, and work has been too busy to dream up Airhead scenes. But occasionally I find commission opportunities impossible to resist.

This one, by Robaato, was requested with just my usual reference images, no particularly airheaded pose, so just focus on the artist's talent for this one:


Hopefully more coming soon!

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