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Post by Loogs on Aug 8, 2016 19:32:20 GMT -5
WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE IS A STUNT NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER ATTEMPTED BEFORE YES THAT'S RIGHT IT'S TIME TO RATE LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF HECTOR ART EVER Oh but how rude of me, allow me to provide a little INTRODUCTION I was hanging out with Addison at a friend's art show opening the other day, where I was talking about the alternate Hector outfit I started drawing a few days ago, and I mentioned the myriad of alternate outfits he had back in the days of the Snitz. Then I made the mistake of offering to show Addison some of these unfortunate AU doomed timeline Hectors (and some from the actual canonical timeline???) And because I am a good friend I'm gonna follow through, but I thought I'd also turn it into a feature because misery loves company and if I had to suffer through poring over the Photobucket archives, you do too so strap in we're in for a wild ride full of more Hectors than you or I can handle, thanks a lot teenage Loogs this is all your fault BUT WITHOUT FURTHER ADO LET'S BEGIN This is Hector Alpha, the very first time I had ever drawn him. I am still in disbelief that 12yo Loogs somehow managed to trounce 14-15yo Loogs in fashion design sense. This is the outfit everyone remembers him in, so it’s definitely the most distinctive look he’s ever had. It’s also very much a product of its time: those huge tinted shades took inspiration from the huge tinted shades from the 2000s that were totally in at the time, and the whole outfit just screams Digimon. While it might seem dated in today’s day and age (and it absolutely is, make no mistake), I think the nostalgia loop is due to come right back around anytime soon, and with KHIII approaching fast, perhaps you can expect an entirely unironic throwback plot involving Hector and Yoshimitsu vanquishing the forces of darkness. It’s shitty technique, it’s on shitty notebook paper, and it’s colored with what were probably crayons, but damn if this isn’t the purest Hector that will ever exist RATING: 8.5/10Likewise, I believe this was the first Hector sprite to appear. Same design as above, though I’m pretty sure it’s literally just a palette swap of the Steven sprite from Gen III because that’s what we were all working with. Nothing says “we started as kids on a Pokemon fan forum” more than a whole archive of customized sprites made by people armed with a Pokemon trainer sprite sheet and MS Paint. Going through the archive is interesting sometimes, in a historical sense, because it’s like some kind of time capsule from the past. so yeah RATING: 6.5/10Fuck Photobucket’s weird default resizing. At some point I’m gonna see about retrieving my old drawing folder from my old room in NC and rescanning some of these old drawings The thing hanging from his neck has changed from the Ruby Star he had in his debut in Stars of Destiny (we don’t talk about Stars of Destiny) to a cross because… because Cruz means cross and you know… it’s… God damn it teenage Loogs, git gud already RATING: 6.5/10Back in the day there were hella Hector sprites all around. If ORP were a fighting game Hector seriously would have like at least 3 DLC packs' worth of alternate costumes This is the bounty hunter Hector from an AU featured in an old Snitz RP about time-traveling that no one cared about called The Hourglass. He’s got jet black hair and he’s wearing a trenchcoat because he’s a brooding adult and brooding is cool just ask Squall from FFVIII or Max Payne okay. RATING: 5/10This isn’t a Hector piece per se but for the one and a half of you who cared, this is where any and all “He4ctor” references come from. It’s not a typo, it is in fact entirely intentional and also a stupid and bad joke and I hate random monkey cheese tacos culture forever RATING: NO/10I dunno he’s on the moon dreaming or something, it’s really anime don’t ask because I don’t have an answer to give you okay RATING: 4/10There are at least two drawings of Hector in some kind of school uniform. Things are getting way too anime now, please help end my suffering. He did not even make it to high school because he decided to be a vagrant anime shonen teen instead what the fuck RATING: 2/10this is like the first one, except I like it less somehow and think it’s less charming than the original. What the fuck was I even doing with the eyes in this drawing style RATING: 6.5/10 Photobucket is shitty and no one should still be using it in the year of our lord two thousand sixteen This is Phoenix Angel Hector from the titular RP (we don’t talk about Phoenix Angel) and a victim of that bad habit a lot of us artists from that age had where we put the character’s hands behind their back because drawing hands is scary so don’t do it ever okay. Also wings don’t work that way what the fuck RATING: 5.5/10I think a kid going by the moniker of UltraCow drew this? I miss UC, he was a good kid and he had some fun RPs back in the day. Anyway he managed to capture Hector’s essence better somehow than I ever could. I’m kind of into this tbh it’s too ridiculous and good-natured for me not to be RATING: 7.5/10This sprite is a little better than the first one, in that it feels a bit more like teen Hector and not Literally Just Steven But Palette-Swapped, but it’s still a sprite from the early days. That was all some of us had to work with though, and if you wanted a visual representation of your characters but couldn’t draw or didn’t have access to a scanner, edited Pokemon sprites was the way to go. RATING: 7/10If you ever had doubts that Elliot and I were hardcore smoking that dank JRPG bud in 2004-2005, here’s some evidence to the contrary you dumb nerd get owned RATING: 5/10Back then it was cool to have your RP character doing cool stuff that you wanted to do yourself so yeah of course there’s a sprite of Hector playing guitar what do you mean it doesn’t make sense you don’t make sense I mean I guess in a way it foreshadowed Hector’s sea shanty fiddling so?? RATING: 6/10Oh look here’s that Hector sprite except we added the Phaëthon Blade to his arsenal which was completely unnecessary not unlike this sprite RIP in pieces Loogs RATING: 5/10There was a Hector for every occasion back in the day, and Christmas is no exception. It’s like shitty DLC for your favorite Capcom fighting game. Though I absolutely had plans recently to draw Dimitri in a Hanukkah sweater so you know what maybe I was on to something after all RATING: 4/10Hector stop appropriating Japanese culture, I hate this I hate you I hate whatever thought process led to this bad thing RATING: 2/10This is from about when I hit puberty and you can tell because drawings from this period started getting awkwardly sexualized and this is when Phoenix Angel Hector stopped having pants. I hate his shitty faux-tribal tattoos and the whole vague edgelord vibe of this thing. At least the wings look better now? RATING: 6/10I can’t find the original uncolored version of this whoops. I guess you gotta just deal with that shitty MS Paint bucket coloring job. This one is okay actually; it’s faithful to his original skill set and it’s not that bad of a drawing for being 13 and shit. It feels less like a bad How-To-Draw-Manga Book product and I kinda dig the eyes?? oops?? I hope I still have the original drawing kicking around in a folder somewhere, fuck Photobucket what a shitty website RATING: 8/10Hey look another Snitz-era Hector sprite, this time he’s in action mode doin a flying kick whatever you know what I don’t even care RATING: 5/10Now that I have my own PS3, I can actually spend a little quality time with Kingdom Hearts and play the whole thing from start to finish. And as I’ve been doing so, I’ve started to realize exactly how deep the KH influences run in Snitz-era Hector and Yoshi. Literally Hector’s just Sora and Yoshimitsu is fucking Riku and you know what actually a KH AU one-shot piece with Hector and Yoshimitsu wouldn’t be half bad now that I think about it RATING: 7.5/10The name of this file suggests that this was supposed to be Hector in some kind of 60s/70s British counterculture style. I don’t know about that, but someone in RP’s gotta rock some Mod fashion style and ride a scooter now because I would be so okay with that, not like this sprite which I am not okay with. its so stupid looking what was I thinking RATING: 2/10oh good more awkwardly sexualized Hector drawings, I’m pretty sure he was undoing his pants in this one but thankfully you can’t see it that well because Photobucket a shit The Kamiyami Blade was a stupid idea and so fucking Prime before Prime was Prime. It sucked out souls or something, I don’t know, it’s stupidly huge I hate Square Enix for probably being responsible for this, I hate anime so much ugh. Pretty sure that open jacket thing with no shirt is also a product of Final Fantasy X which begs the question, how was I inspired so much by games I hardly even played because I didn’t get to have a PS2 at the time? ?? RATING: 5.5/10Same as above except in shitty sprite form oops. How’s that dumb sword even staying attached to his back like that? ? RATING: 4/10What the fuck??? This is way too formal glitzy glam to be Hector??? I mean it’s actually not that bad of a look it’s just??? not very Hector of you??? I don’t know how I feel about this AU where Hector is flamboyant but in a polished way and he probably wears makeup and does his nails and is super Bowie as fuck RATING: 7/10I know even less about this one. It looks like some kinda cyberpunk AU Hector?? I could only be able to tell you that this is supposed to be Hector because the file name says so. It’s not the most atrocious look, but it sure is boring. Idk RATING: 4.5/10what in the god damn fuck is this bullshit, why does Hector look like he’s on his way to audition for the cast of Final Fantasy XV, why did this happen, what’s he even going for here, why am I kind of into it, what the fuck RATING: 7.5/10what?? What even was Manta Drakkanis form?? I hate the power wars era just look at this what the fuck also he looks impossibly waifish?? Look on the bright side, in like 12 years we finally get an aquatic-themed Hector skill set that makes actual sense in the overall setting so there you go RATING: 3/10great another stupid unnecessary sprite except oops this is just young teenage me loving on my stupid idiot pretend child which is actually just 24-year old adult me right now still loving on my stupid idiot pretend child, fucking hoisted [insert DJ Khaled “You Played Yourself” Vine here] RATING: TENOUTTATENI think this is Troubadour Knight Hector?? (we don’t talk about the Troubadour Knights so don’t even think about it) There was some kind of amnesia plotline following some angst about fucking up Yisimentsu, it was pretty garbo so whatever. Realtalk time, kinda wanna see a reimagining of Yisimentsu as some kind of huge Steven Universe monster fusion tho RATING: 3/10PLEASE STAY TUNED FOR PART 2: THIS IS WAY MORE HECTORS THAN I BARGAINED FOR WHAT THE FUCK
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 8, 2016 20:53:18 GMT -5
Another Random Lugiasian Production gets an ACTUALLY YES / 10UltraCow gets an I REMEMBER THAT GUY, HE WAS COOL / 10Christmas Hector gets a YULE BE SORRY / 10Erika Hector gets a / 10Sora Hector gets a THAT'S... THAT'S JUST SORA. YOU JUST DREW SORA AND CALLED HIM HECTOR. I DON'T... THAT'S SORA, RIGHT? ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU DIDN'T JUST DRAW SORA AND NOW YOU'RE MISREMEMBERING IT AS HECTOR? / 10The Troubadour Knights get an OHOHOHO YEAH I REMEMBER THOSE TOO, WHOOPS / 10Hector gets an I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE THIS MANY HECTORS IN THIS MANY ALTERNATE UNIVERSES, YIKES, HE REALLY DID OUT-PRIME PRIME / 10This article gets a / 10
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Post by Loogs on Aug 8, 2016 21:25:23 GMT -5
Sora Hector gets a THAT'S... THAT'S JUST SORA. YOU JUST DREW SORA AND CALLED HIM HECTOR. I DON'T... THAT'S SORA, RIGHT? ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE YOU DIDN'T JUST DRAW SORA AND NOW YOU'RE MISREMEMBERING IT AS HECTOR? / 10eh, sorta. It's just Hector in a very heavily Sora-inspired outfit; like a KH AU Hector or something. kind of like MLP custom edits except not actually terrible Hector gets an I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WERE THIS MANY HECTORS IN THIS MANY ALTERNATE UNIVERSES, YIKES, HE REALLY DID OUT-PRIME PRIME / 10Welcome to the Hectorverse™, Hatu at the end the alpha timeline Hector has to fight all of these AU Hectors and seal off the portals before they take over the alpha ORP universe
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 8, 2016 22:18:18 GMT -5
at the end the alpha timeline Hector has to fight all of these AU Hectors and seal off the portals before they take over the alpha ORP universe Hector raised his demonic eye's, looking out at the world before him. Some time ago, through some strange twist of fate, he'd become and adept. And shortly there-after his best friend, Yoshimitsu, and his best friends lover, Vincent, had been killed. He didn't know why, or how, nor had he witnessed it himself, though he wished he could've held his best friend one last time, before he'd passed on into the abyss. For the moment, however, Hector stood resolutely in front of a gate. It was but one of many, and through those gates both hectors and dimitris flooded into the Hector Material Plane. Forces from above and below streamed through the portal, seeking to claim earth as their own. Currently, Hector stood in front of a hector portal, and his already crimson colored blade was sharply accented with the dark, foul blood of hectors. Hector's powers lashed out wildly, electrifying, frying, freezing, consuming everything around him. But he didn't stand uncontested, through the portals streamed leagons of hectors, some of unimagenable powers. His spirit was tested, time and again, as they dove into his spirit and tried to take command of his body. But, relentlessly, he fought them off. And his blade took more and more until he was forced to incinerated the bodys around him, so as to reach his enemies. Hector howled as he cut down another enemy, then side stepped to avoid a lung, and beheaded yet another hector. His odd armor and incredable sword were more than a match for the hector's cloaks of power, but he held no hope for the human race, he was one, and the hector's were many. And worse, dimitris to, walked the earth. A ball of fire was hurled at him, but he swatted it aside contemptuously, not even bothered by its pitiful heat. Being an adept, he was far more in control of the elements around him. Only thing outside of the elements could hurt him now, steel and telekinesis, and the powers of the mind. He lashed out, cleaving a hector's skull, then ripped out his blade to parry a sneak attack by a lesser hector. He chopped of its arm, then brought his sword around backwards, and stabbed it through the chest. Ripping the sword out, he cut a hector in half, even as it raised its clawed hands to kill him. "COME ON!" Hector yelled, grieving inwardly for his friend, howling with rage on the exterior, a killing mechine lost its consiounce. "COME TO ME YOU BASTARDS! I'LL SEND YOU ALL BACK TO HELL!!!" And the hectors came, in endless numbers, until ash filled the sky and clouded his vision. His lungs ached from dealing with the dust and ash. But he stood, and he would not fall. Not until his friend came back to him. Not until the end of time. this is for if anyone who doesn't get the refrance
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Post by Loogs on Aug 8, 2016 22:34:18 GMT -5
okay but like it's kind of scary how much that actually reads like a TCGPlayer-era RP
I should have done the last writing prompt and have the "something unusual" raining from the skies be all these AU Hectors, there's so many somebody please stop them
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Post by Loogs on Aug 8, 2016 22:43:27 GMT -5
OH SHIT LOOK IT'S PART 2: TCGPLAYER ERA AND BEYOND I hope you like bad how-to-draw-manga styles because that's what you're in for todayOh good, Photobucket decided to stop resizing things badly just in time for you to be able to maybe recognize that writing at the bottom as a verse in a Daniel Bedingfield song, who even remembers that guy, wait actually Gotta Get Through This was and is still a pretty dope song lmao uh So the one on his left, for those who have no idea, is Kioshi, who was his boyfriend at the time and in this doomed timeline that I removed from the canon so guess what, we don’t talk about Kioshi okay?? They both have literally the same face and also this is from that time period where I was drawing Hector with that stupid anime hair that sticks up on one side. I guess it’s not that bad of a drawing but it annoys me a little, whatever RATING: 6.5/10Hector you soggy creampuff stop pretending you’re all tough shit, spoiler alert you grow up to be a fucking sailor dad playing horsey rides and putting your daughter’s drawings up on the fridge okay you’re not as edgy as you think you are please stop also what… what are you wearing, is that supposed to be a bird, ugh why RATING: 4.5/10Imagine looking at the UC chibi drawing and being like “what if I did that but way shittier and also the neck is too wide” RATING: 3/10 Oops I found the other high school AU Hector drawing. You know, this being the start of the yaoi period and all, it’s kinda funny that I drew the hands super tiny in proportion to his head, but that’s because it’s all going to his neck UGH BUT LIKE ACTUALLY I hate that I hate all the necks on these stupid bad Hector drawings why did I agree to doing this RATING: 3/10Yep things sure get super yaoi for a bit here!! Do people still even do yaoi in this day and age?? Is yaoi passé?? I don’t know? ? or are we just calling it “regular ol’ being gay” now? I don’t know whatever but at least I get to say I was bringing in the queer representation before most of yall did excluding Elliot who probably knew all along that Hector and Yoshi were secretly crushing on each other, so there’s That RATING: 2/10What is with the stupid padawan braid. I don’t even like that style of glasses that much?? Why’d we ever stop giving Hector those silly goggle glasses? ? They worked better than these? I suspect it’s because around this time I had acquired a similar pair of purple-tinted sunglasses in Colombia, so god damn it Loogs git gud RATING: 3/10I never wanted to show this to anyone ever again but I did promise “literally every single Hector art (barring whatever is lost to time)” so here you go, here is a picture of that one time I cosplayed as my own damn original character for Halloween. The satiny fabric we used was shitty, the whole quality of it was shitty, the wig was bad, I was wearing the less cool Hector shades, fuck this I’m moving on RATING: 2.5/10If I’m not mistaken I’m pretty sure those are the twin bird blades he was supposed to get in Entwined (we don’t talk about Entwined) What is even with those huge pant legs??? If this is in fact from Entwined then I’m pretty sure that means that, at least in this abandoned alternate timeline, Vathalé was nine months pregnant with Pleiades so imagine this guy being your dad. He probably went on later to become a huge douchelord like Jecht and Pleiades grows up to hate her stupid douchelord dad and play blitzball and hit on summoners or something RATING: 3/10I had a goth phase so Hector also had a goth AU phase except I never got to actually go full goth, my parents wouldn’t let me because that shit’s bad and for Satan The Hectorverse is wild, I tell ya RATING: 3.5/10Hey, remember Hector’s blonde phase? You don’t? Good. Wait, you do? God damn it I hate you stop remembering that Probably the other thing that I hate about this period besides the awful plat blonde hair is that I gave Hector a fuckton of piercings but in retrospect I don’t feel like piercings suit him. He’s so… down to earth, and all that metal on his face just makes him look like he’s trying to be some sort of edgelord. Nah, Hec’s way too earnest for that; I’ll leave the edginess to vintage Yoshimitsu instead, and Halley pulls off piercings much better while still inhabiting that sphere of ridiculously over-the-top fun shonen influence that Snitz-era Hector falls under. This is also from the time when I a) would never finish drawings, b) drew necks that were way too wide and c) had that bad sameface anime pointy style. I hate this can we just move on please Now that I look at it again, though, I think those might have been the actual Entwined swords so imagine this douchelord as your dad RATING: 4/10wait actually this one is kind of adorable, Hector’s still unbearably blonde but how can I hate on tiny pixel baby Pleiades, I can’t so There u go RATING: 7/10There’s a pretty huge time gap from that last piece to this one, we’re talking something like a year or two, because I was off having a terrible time being a teenager and my mother really liked to cut off my access to the internet (something that we Actually don’t talk about) This is the first piece I made since living through Dad Rock Hell Phase, and it’s actually kind of decent. It was me actually trying a more dynamic pose, which is something I should be doing more often oopsFauxhawk Hector was a thing that didn’t really take off. I mean it’s not really that fun; there’s no silly outrageous joy to be had in the way that Snitz-era Hector had. He’s just kind of boring, and red-black color schemes didn’t work out for him (even though his pyrokinetic skill sets might suggest otherwise) Still, this is a pretty cool piece I have to admit RATING: 8/10I don’t really like this, but I’ll give it a pass since it’s moving on from the bad pointy anime style period. The hair’s not doing it for me, I can’t work watercolors, ehh shrug RATING: 6/10Man I remember drawing this and thinking “HELL yeah this is the coolest shit ever” whoops Ugh, again, I regret ever taking Hec in this edgelord direction where he’s trying to look tough and shit. Maybe it makes sense that he would realistically go through a bit of an edgelord phase in his rebellious teenage years, but no one liked edgelord Hector and neither do I so let’s just move on RATING: 5/10HECTOR AND YOSHIMITSU GOES SHOPING, also known as the best damn Loogs RP ever and the best damn Hector AU that exists this is perfect I have nothing bad to say about this absolutely perfect and flawless thing Rating: $TEXAS/10 Remember when we were all like “ahahah Hector and Yoshimitsu are so gay for each other j/k they’re just friends they aren’t actually canonically into each other ” Remember when we were all wrong as fuck Imagine being this in denial about your own nascent queerness RATING: 7.5/10what I feel like I drew this as part of some kind of concept for Radiance that Hector leads the Raiixian army or something, I don’t know, why’s his neck so weird I hate this ugh RATING: 4/10unmake homestuck forever this means there is a Homestuck AU Hector. does this mean, then, that there are also millions of other Homestuck AU Hectors from null sessions and doomed timelines and you know what let’s stop thinking about this and move on fuck homestuck RATING: 1.5/10So I like to play this game sometimes called “Find the Pony”. You Google Image search some kind of innocuous thing like “blueberry pancakes” or “SeaWorld” and you scroll down and see how far you get before you hit a MLP-related picture. I can’t believe I just got hoisted like this going through my Photobucket, I am so mad at myself right now Furthermore, this looks Kamina as fuck and actually you know what this is kind of a cool pony design I guess I’m ok with this RATING: 7/10PART 3: THE MCAD YEARS COMING SOON as in probs tomorrow after work idk
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 9, 2016 7:17:25 GMT -5
Goth Hector gets a THAT'S... NOT HECTOR. THERE'S NO WAY THAT'S HECTOR. WHY WASN'T THAT JUST A NEW CHARACTER. WHY, THE LOOGS STABLE WOULD BE EIGHT TIMES ITS SIZE IF YOU HAD JUST TAKEN SOME OF THESE CONCEPTS AND MADE THEM NEW CHARACTERS INSTEAD OF REBRANDING HECTOR EVERY THREE MONTHS. AND WE'D BE GUSHING ALL THE TIME IN RP DISCUSSION ABOUT SUCH GREAT AND DISTINCTIVE LOOGS CHARACTERS AS "VATISNA KAINKONEN" THE GOTH WITH A BIRD AND "NADRIMAI MEKRANTELTIOS" THE SANTA GUY / 10
Homestuck Hector gets an I HAD A DREAM RECENTLY WHERE HOMESTUCK WAS GIVEN A WONDERFUL ENDING FULL OF NUANCED, INDIVIDUALIZED SENDOFFS FOR ITS MANY CHARACTERS. THEN I WOKE UP AND WEIRD SHITTY FROG ANIME RESOLVING NOTHING WAS STILL THE ENDING. FUCK / 10
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Post by Loogs on Aug 9, 2016 13:34:44 GMT -5
DON'T GET TOO EXCITED BUT BEFORE WE END THINGS WE GOTTA TAKE CARE OF PART 2.5: A FEW STRAY PIECES FROM OTHER PEOPLE THAT WEREN’T IN MY PHOTOBUCKET SO I CAN’T ACCURATELY PUT THEM IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER AND I’M JUST GETTING THEM OUT OF THE WAY BEFORE WE BEGIN PART 3 Exactly What It Says On The Tin™This is one of Lee Elliot’s earlier Hector sprites, I believe? It’s whatever, idk, Hector never really had a buster sword like that, it’s a little subdued for a Hector sprite, I’m so used to extravagant shenanigans. This is also kinda beefy for an early teenage Hector. Teen Hector's a scrawny kid, maaaybe gets a bit wirier and sculpted in his later teenage years, but this is a lot more swole than I remember him being. shrug RATING: 5/10An Elliot sprite dating back to Summoner Style. It’s pretty good as far as sprites go, I don’t have many complaints about this, but I never quite got his pose here, it looks like he’s getting ready to punch someone?? That’s fine I guess. Idk this is mostly fine RATING: 7.5/10An old Lee sprite of Phoenix Angel Hector dating back to the Snitz. He looks a bit too muscular for what he was at the time, and the hair’s not ridiculous enough, but that aura’s pretty nice for an edited sprite. hey look he actually has pants, because Lee is a man of God who believes in Modesty and Jesus would never edit in a pixely phoenix dong RATING: 6.5/10
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Aug 9, 2016 15:22:58 GMT -5
This is one of Lee’s earlier Hector sprites, I believe? It’s whatever, idk, Hector never really had a buster sword like that, it’s a little subdued for a Hector sprite, I’m so used to extravagant shenanigans. This is also kinda beefy for an early teenage Hector. Teen Hector's a scrawny kid, maaaybe gets a bit wirier and sculpted in his later teenage years, but this is a lot more swole than I remember him being. shrug
RATING: 5/10
That's one of mine actually, I think.
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Post by Loogs on Aug 10, 2016 17:58:44 GMT -5
PART 3: THE MCAD YEARS These pieces date from 2012 to the present day, during my time at art school. There's a whole lot less ragging from this point on because none of the pieces are laughably bad (save for maybe one where I make a huge glaring mistake oops) so expect more sincere remarks from me I guessNotable for being the first Hector drawing I made since coming to MCAD, dating to first semester freshman year which was four whole damn years ago holy shit? I mean, if you ask me, I can point out all the terrible things about this that I hate like the wonky anatomy in the shoulders-neck area and the awful amateur use of Copic markers, but you can really see what eventually became the modern Loogs style take shape here. It pays tribute to the original piece from 2004, so as a milestone piece, I have to acknowledge its place in history even though I hate all its glaring flaws so much. RATING: 8/10And again, another huge time jump in between pieces, this time by like three years because art school is a rough gauntlet and ORP was quite dead for a while. This one is a number of firsts; now armed with a state-of-the-art tablet, it’s the start of the new and current digital art era, and it’s the first Hector piece in the sailor era. It looks so much more refined than anything we’ve seen thus far because it’s the product of three years of art school. My main problems with it are that the nose is a bit too big, the hair linework looks messy, and I don’t know how I feel about the sailor top anymore. Another fun aside, this is about when I stop signing my pieces too. I don’t know, as something to get my toes wet again, it’s not bad but I’m my own harshest critic so idk RATING: 7.5/10For this one I wanted to try drawing cute family pictures to help tell the stories in between Hector’s last pre-hiatus appearances and the post-hiatus work. The aim of this one was to highlight just how young he was when Pleiades was born. I tried to also work with some of the looks he had when he would have been in this time era (I even went as far as to show him growing out the last of the blue dye) but again I kinda don’t like those shades as much?? The torso came out real wonky even though I was trying to use reference pictures for that pose. This isn’t my favorite piece but I was trying to do some storytelling in it so while I can dock it some points it’s still an interesting piece for this reason. RATING: 7.5/10If there was ever a more Adult looking Hector, here it is. This guy here in the sophisticated captain’s coat and chic paisley scarf, he’s not a little boy anymore. No, this is the captain of the Shahrazad, the hero of the seven seas, and a responsible father to a bright young girl and a scruffy dog. The texture and the background color suggest stormy weather, and this looks like a guy you can trust to get us through the rough waters alright. It’s probably one of my favorite Hector pieces ever. RATING: 9/10Fuck yeah with the throwback, yall. This is maybe the other piece I would say is my favorite from the modern era. I finally got a good thing going rendering hair, the screentone gradient feels retro as fuck, and it’s another tribute to the original piece, so what’s not to like? (I mean, I guess upon further inspection, the neck is still weird and I could have done a better job with the flames in his hands.) I finally managed to distill the essence of Snitz Hector and used it to capture his old teenage charm again, this time armed with stronger illustration skills, and it shows when you compare this piece to the one from 2012. RATING: 8.5/10And finally Hatu decides to get in on the Sailor Hector hype train. I’ve said enough on this piece in my actual review in Illustrated, but let me reiterate that it’s still a solid piece. The pose works, it fits his persona; again, my only complaint is that Hatu hadn’t yet refined a proper digital style, so I hope he goes back and redoes this one the way he did with some of the other pieces. RATING: 8/10Addison’s piece, again, I’ve said a lot about it already in Illustrated. Hector with a goatee is okay I guess, but I take him as more of a full-face scruff dude, though probably not a huge bushy beard. Pleiades is as always adorable, I just wish she actually had something in her hands. I want to remind anyone reading this that Addison drew this while in the thick of art school senior project, so I can’t fault them too much for the piece being a little scant in places. RATING: 7/10Bruhhhh it’s teen Hector charging into battle bruhhhhhh And now you get to see exactly how bad I am at anatomy and clothes folds. I tried a coloring brush with a little less texture this time and idk how I feel about that. Also, in the WIP, his expression was more intense and I managed to blunt it somehow in the inking phase, so that sucks. The flames look better than in the last teen Hector drawing, and it’s cool to see him in such a dynamic pose, I just wish I didn’t suck so bad at doing it, idk. RATING: 7/10This is a quick tribute to SHOPING, and you know how I feel about SHOPING. Also bonus Manager Miko being intimidating as fuck RATING: ELEVENTY BILLION DOLLARS/10I mean this one is kind of a gag but it’s Hector art so I gotta throw it in here Phoenix Angel is silly and there’s a reason I don’t really pull it out anymore RATING: CAW CAW/10Took another shot at full-body poses and alternate teen Hector looks. He has to have ridiculous goggle glasses at all times, he just has to okay. As you can see, it was supposed to only be a quick sketch, but I liked the pencils enough to leave this uninked as a bit of an experiment. That’s kind of why it feels a bit unfinished, but I also wanted to give it a softer look akin to a nostalgic photo from the past. The anatomy feels off (it always feels off) but the pose and expression capture his easygoing nature very well. (Yes Hector smoked and drank beer as a young teen, that’s what happens when you wanna be cool but you don’t have your parents around to keep you from doing it) RATING: 7.5/10Here is a fun fact about this drawing: I drew this quickly at 3 AM after taking my night pills so I was zonking out by the time I stopped drawing. That’s why…… that’s why you might notice that the right hand is turned the wrong way I fucked up majorly oopsRATING: 5/10OH HEY THAT'S IT THANKS FOR READING (and for putting up with the Hector AU mob) see you again soon
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Aug 26, 2016 18:15:09 GMT -5
So each pic below is gonna be spoilered so people aren't looking at the same images all over again. Look at that crayon colouring and sassy pose without the thrust out hip. Stop drawing on lined paper/10Old school spriting. Pallet swap/10Sassy-hipless-thrusting strikes again, but now with more fire! Where did your fingers go/10Cool coat but where did your neck go/10That's one very ergonomic moon, no curving of the spine at all. Where did your feet go/10I mean this is totally unrealistic, what uniform-enforced school allows purple shades? Why is your tie so short/10
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Post by Beelzebibble on Aug 26, 2016 19:11:40 GMT -5
I was more concerned about the shape of School Uniform Hector's head, but I wasn't going to say anything. Until now. Now I have done.
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Post by Loogs on Oct 3, 2017 4:20:31 GMT -5
man I am turbo-bummed out about the fact that the Photobuckalypse devastated this whole thread. [rolls up sleeves] guess I'll have to do some editing then
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Post by Loogs on Oct 3, 2017 4:26:49 GMT -5
Photobucket is shitty and no one should still be using it in the year of our lord two thousand sixteen Don't say I didn't warn yall
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Post by ch00beh on Oct 3, 2017 10:15:51 GMT -5
RIP
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Oct 13, 2017 18:29:10 GMT -5
wow photobucket really fucked this entire thread over
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Post by Loogs on Oct 14, 2017 3:24:21 GMT -5
wow photobucket really fucked this entire thread over Yeah, but that's alright because you wanna know what? This actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because... So remember when I said I might have the originals kicking around in a folder somewhere in my old room? I remembered I had brought back an old folder back in January when I went to go visit my mom. Going back to my Photobucket to download all the files so I could throw them up on the Flickr archive, I was really bummed out about the way that awful website shrunk down the drawings to a ridiculous extent, and it encouraged me to go unearth the folder I brought back, and well, I'll let the following picture explain: jackpotMany of the old Hector drawings were in there. (Unfortunately, for me at least, Hector Alpha 2004 remains MIA.) Actually, a lot more were accounted for than I had initially expected, and there are some other old drawings of note in that folder, but that's for another thread. Oh, by the way? I'm sure some of you have noticed that there are drawings in that photo you don't recognize?That's right kids I am very excited to announce PART 4: THE BONUS ROUND--REMIXED, REMASTERED, REGRETTED COMING SOON All the previously unreleased Hector B-sides nobody wanted to see no seriously, I wish I'd never found them
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Oct 14, 2017 4:17:35 GMT -5
I am living for giant banana sword Hector in the bottom right there
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Post by Loogs on Oct 14, 2017 4:27:49 GMT -5
I am living for giant banana sword Hector in the bottom right there oh that's nothing wait until you see the actual Rule 63 Hector
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Post by Yoshimitsu on Oct 14, 2017 4:40:01 GMT -5
Follow for more genderbent AUs
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Post by Loogs on Jul 12, 2021 16:25:25 GMT -5
I REALIZE I'M NEARLY FOUR YEARS TOO LATE BUT IT'S FINALLY TIME FOR PART 4: THE BONUS ROUND--REMIXED, REMASTERED, REGRETTED These won't be scanned for a few reasons, most prominently the reason of my scanner being an ancient, dodgy contraption I found on the free shelf at college, which scans successfully one out of maybe ten tries. This shit isn't worth that kind of time, so you get tablet photos, sorry. also everyone is gone who am i even talking tooooooooI'm very sorry this took so long so let's start us off with a bang, okay? Yes!!! It's the Rule 63 Hector I was teasing in the preview for this part!!! Look at her! She has what I can only assume are facial tattoos! She has elfin ears, for whatever godforsaken reason! She has earrings and a belly ring hot damn! Why are her pant legs so wide??? Who knows??? Who cares!!! Y2K fashion was a hell of a drug I tell ya RATING: 6.5/10Again with the eyebrow piercing, huh? Now he has a nose stud too I guess. Can I stress enough that Piercings Hector never took off? Kinda like Hat Rhys, hey did yall know Rhys used to wear a hat? now u kno hold up are those criss-crossed straps on the back of his pants?? Oh lord he's wearing Tripp pants isn't he. Teen Loog, why RATING: 5/10I figured out the secret of the giant pant legs. Besides the fact that flare jeans really were all the rage around the turn of the new millenium, of course, notice how they conveniently hide his feet? You know what's one of the hardest things to draw on a human figure? yes that's right feet, teen loog is a lazy hack you heard it here first folksAnyway this one is largely identical to the last one except he ditched the piercings which I guess gives it a whole half-point bump wooo RATING: 5.5/101. I don't know why his hair is so fucked up but only on one side, don't ask 2. I don't know how those glasses are staying up in his hair, don't ask 3. I don't fucking know why I would inconsistently give him elf ears d 4. fucking necks how do they work 5. all the skills in this piece went right to the eyes and that was it 6. how to draw manga books are trash don't buy them RATING: 3/10(the smudges are due to being shuffled around in a cheap folder with some other crayoned piece)hOOOOO there is a lot going on in this one Dual swords mean this is Entwined Hector, which means the piercings are back and he's blonde! But this time we get some more, uh, experimental additions. Like the chin scruff! Hector is a teen so it makes sense, but Hector is a teen so it looks awful anyway. He has dog tags! It's clearly because as a young man with strong powers, Miko was using him as a child soldier on the Summoner front lines Clearly he ain't been in no army so these are purely a e s t h e t i c d o g t a g s and sure whatever I guess. The jacket is pretty dope too, surprisingly, the patch on the arm is really not bad looking. Extra points because I actually made an attempt at an Action Pose and an even paltrier attempt at a background. RATING: 7/10This is possibly the best Entwined-era Hector drawing that exists today. This one has decent colors and hell, I don't even mind the blonde too much here. Yes the banana swords are still much too big and stupid looking but this is the closest they come to making sense when it comes to how he carries them around. Heck, I'll go as far as to say that grip/pommel/guard combo look pretty damn good all things considered. You know what does get me about this drawing, though? The fact that it's like 95% finished. Come on teen Loog you were right there why didn't you just finish the fucking thing RATING: 8/10 Now before you get too excited about the quality of that unicorn I'm gonna tell you straight up that there is a 99% chance I traced that horse from something else. With the pretty pretty unicorn DQed from racking up points, all we're left with is that troubadour knight Hector we don't talk about and his weird wormy bangs and those neck tattoos with that weird pattern that keeps popping up, and a staunch commitment to never even try and draw hands and feet for fear of failure and ridicule. This MO has failed teen Loogs, because future Loogs is back to ridicule and cyberbully him anyway, get owned you shitlordRATING: 4.5/10This series started on a wholesome note so let's end it with an equally as wholesome Hector from that KH AU that only ever existed in my head and perhaps Clubs' head as well if LaDC was anything to go off of. Ignore the fact that the colors are a clashing mess for the moment. Just look at him. You know what was so great about Snitz Hector? It's the same thing that makes Sora so charming to KH fans; he just wants to help his friends. He carries himself with a kind of carefree swagger on the outside but on the inside he's got some deep-seated insecurities. All Snitz Hector wants is to put a smile on your face and take you on a thrilling adventure. KH AU Hector is a natural extension of that concept, down to the same bright doofus fashion sense. I can't hate Hector Alpha, or KH AU Hector. He's just too pure of heart. He represents everything that made me fall in love with RP and storytelling as a whole. I'll even go as far as to say I wouldn't be here without him, especially when I realize that I was subconsciously living through him vicariously as someone who later grew up to finally understand their own transness and queerness. He is too much a symbol of what my hopes and dreams once meant to me. I cannot look upon him with disgust. But I sure can dock him points for having no grasp whatsoever on color theory RATING: 8/10OH HEY THAT'S IT FOR REAL THIS TIME
there are surely no more Hectors left in the Hectorverse or in some forgotten portfolio somewhere
everything is finally as it should be except that everyone left the exodus
please come back, I'm very lonely here
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Post by Krazy Glue on Jul 28, 2021 5:34:45 GMT -5
There are only 2 certainties in life, Death and Loogs drawing hector cruz
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Post by Loogs on Jul 28, 2021 17:08:00 GMT -5
who is this """cruz""", sounds fake
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