#vanh

Rather than climb down from the roof that you had landed on, you jump, your fangs retracting and your face going to the pretty one that Dracula had chosen you for. The cobblestone streets felt cold against your bare feet but it was something that you barely noticed as you encroached on the handsome Van Helsing. You offered him your hand. You weren’t offended when he didn’t take it.

“What a little brave fool you are,” You said, tutting at Van Helsing. The man is struggling with a weapon - quite a big one. You didn’t know what it was, but you were sure that you would be darting out of the way when he got it working. “Don’t you know - it is so much easier to be on our side?”

“The side of monsters? Of killers?” He argued, propelling himself backwards with his feet.

“Being a killer of killers still makes you a killer, Van Helsing,” I smiled, matching his pushes with each step. Keeping the same distance, but also readying yourself for flight. “You and I - we could have some fun without some killing, couldn’t we?”

You ran your hand down your body, the thin satin dress that was clinging to it didn’t leave much to the imagination. “Your blood - it could keep me beautiful for you - I would only need just a little taste...”

“I’d hate to see what a big taste looks like if that’s a little one,” He said, as you both heard the yelp of a man being dropped by one of my sister-brides. You chuckled.

“Witty too - I enjoy a laugh.”

“Dinner and a show - I’d be the whole package, but I’m going to have to take a rain check.”

Whatever the weapon was, he got it working, starting to fire out arrows from it. You ran for cover, behind a farmhouse, and only then did you let your wings out. You were far too smart to make yourself a larger target right in front of him with the weapon.

“It’s a date, Van Helsing,” You said, as you flew to your sister’s aid.

It’s weird, even though the site as of present is such a simplistic thing to recreate, I still can’t say that the time taken is wholly unjustified. The thing I can probably safely say is that I’ve learned is: 1. website development takes ages, regardless of you knowing what you’re doing. And 2. even those who know what they’re doing seem to be inefficient on what they’re trying to create depending on intention.

The TLDR, I’m pretty confident that everyone is just as clueless as another when it comes to website efficiency, it’s just the case of not being totally clueless. Anyway, I’ve no idea what I’m talking about anymore so onto what else I wanted to talk about.

Progress is going well. Slow, but well. There ends up being days when I just avoid writing anything because I know what it will allude to, recently you’ll have probably noticed that my recent update on the page is over a week ago at this point. And for good reason!

At the moment in time I’m currently re-learning my programming environment, that meaning that I’ve finally got my ass off-of Tumblr. I’ve been talking with friends who know way more about programming than myself about what I should generally be aiming towards, one of those topics being independent on hosting my site. So a lot of my recent time has just been re-learning how I should write my site, because I know my future career in this space will bite me in the ass the more I delay this, so it IS happening. Slowly.

Hello, and welcome to my hopefully last major post of my current branding transitional period! It's going pretty well, but I feel like the only thing I've been doing for the past couple months here is talking about myself. Hopefully I'll find a new project to work on sooner, rather than later, but regardless-

I've been currently working on a long overdue update to my blog, as it's THE thing that presents all my art and my time investment. It's been sorely under presented for a year or two now and I've been meaning to get around to finding a new theme, but to no avail, as a result I've been making my own!

At the moment in time, I've very bare bones and holds most of the tumblr elements I want featured, but it's taking a while to test out ideas I have in mind and will take some time.

I recently finished developing my page scaling, which is definately a new thing for me, but only is designed to accustom to anything between 500px and ((ideally)) 1920px wide. It's mainly because I don't really have any solutions in order to figure out a good screen ratio for things such as tablets, so ideally I'll try to design with the general 16:9 ratio with what I have in mind.

I've been slowly developing a page-esc kinda concept to treat the website like a bunch of pages to display my work on without enforcing page redirects, because they are inheritly awful. The goal being that the idea will come across somewhat artistically progressive alongside with having good compatibility for tablets. This process is also a pretty good excuse to re-establish my CSS skills because lord knows Vher98 has a lack of them.

I've managed to get around to cleaning up and vectorising my logo as of late, which is good news for future projects and to flex my ability to do some clean looking graphics for once in my life. It's not as perfect as it could be in terms of mastering consistancy in thickness of text, border thickness and general connotation of shapes and angles... but it's at a much better position than it was.

I had to do a bit of cleanup and polish a lot of the angles that was originally in the design and fix some intent I originally had during the design conception, but don't think I did an entirely effective job at. One of which being the horns on the logo being a representation of the design elements of Petra, and I think the quick mock-up I designed really struggles to give the intended shape and the outlines just don't do justice to the shape of the logo itself.

Regardless, here's the final design, with all of it's slight imperfections:

Top image: Newly vectorised logo Bottom image: Original logo design with an additional outerglow.

As an extra sidenote, I also designed the new vector with and without an outline. The older, original design has a default black glow with tons of manual tweating in order to get the same general shape, but it's really lazy looking and doesn't pertray the shape that it's supposed to.

...Alongside, of course, additional tweaks to the colour pallet that the logo is displayed as. Not to mention a different outline hue to contrast the new base purple a bit better.

Regardless of my little quibbles of slight design imperfections, elements as simple as consistant line thickness and the 16,000 x 8,000 of glory is a much more glamorous result than the original concept piece and I'll be soon to get around to swapping any current usage of my logo out with this. The vast increase in quality is such an eye opener I couldn't not do it.