The Whale and the Kitten Illustration

Hey everyone just wanted to update the blog with a project I did this month for someone I work with named Kelsey!! I remember talking to her before and she had a long long long list of favorite things. I love a challenge and I love combining things that usually don't make sense together, sensibly so I let her put a list on Facebook and told her I could create something!

Here is the list of things she came up with:

I had the idea in my head and made a sketch. It didn't take me long to render it in Illustrator. This is my creation:

A sophisticated whale with a mustache, in love with a princess kitten floating along on a lily pad with an owl soaring about with a heavy anchor in claws.

Mr Whale in all his mustach-ed glory!


The portly yet approachable princess kitten!

It is one of the most classic love stories between a whale and a cat ever to be illustrated. She loved it (and so do I) and she also decided to frame it with some rainbow matting:

I hope everyone has a great weekend!

Whitest Kids U Know at the Troc 2012

Hey everyone! Just a few days ago, well last weekend, I went to the comedy group THE WHITEST KIDS U KNOW at the Trocadero in Philadelphia, Pa. I have been a fan of the comedy group for an unbelievable amount of years. When I was going to school for Graphic Design one of our Photoshop projects was to create a poster by scanning materials in our bags to advertise a fictional grand opening of a comedy club called, "Eating Dirtm" use our favorite comedian.

Of course I picked the Whitest Kids!



It's quite the throw-back but I still like doing a lot of collage work and still am proud of this poster even though it's eons old!

Anyway, onto the show! It was a lot of fun and I got a lot of great photos. Me and my brother were the first people in so we had a front row seat!







The merchandise was slightly out of my price range though and it snowed allllll day. We started driving home almost immediately to avoid the big storm. But I would definitely go see them again!

Hope everyone has a great week!

Breakfast Valentine's Cards!

Hey everyone!! Tomorrow is Valentine's day and that means today is a great day to unveil some newly made FREE Valentine's cards, just for you!! This is the second time that I have done something like this. Last year's Valentine's cards were Lady Gaga themed and to-date have over 360 page views, my 9TH most popular post of all time, woohoo!!

Well this year I decided to create cards of one of my OTHER favorite things; food!

More specifically breakfast food!

There's waffles, eggs, toast, oatmeal, OJ all your favorite breakfast item accompanied with sweet little Valentine's day themed sayings! Feel free to print these and hand them out to friends, family, classmates and maybe even your secret crush on that special day, February the 14th!!

There are seven total per sheet, download the PDF and start printing by clicking on this link:
http://violet-ink.com/Printables/BreakfastValentines.pdf

Hope everyone has a great day tomorrow!

Saber - Illustrated Portrait

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a quick entry of another one of my freelance pieces I did for a client. Her name was Saber and she wanted an illustrated portrait of herself. She sent me several photos of herself so I was able to create something truly realistic yet still within in my signature "Penningt00ns" style!

Here is the piece:



Wow!! I think it turned out great!! I even added her name in pink and black text at the bottom.



The real challenge was combining a lot of the features in each photo. Her make-up, hair style and piercings came out just the way she wanted!!

Remember if you are interested in your own illustrated portrait from a photograph or any other design work by me, just check out the contact page on violet-ink.com !! Hope everyone has a good day!!

Jackie's New Bundle of Joy!

Hey everyone! Just wanted to post some exciting news! One of my clients, Jackie from Jerseylicious just had her bundle of joy YESTERDAY!

How exciting! She is such a great person. I created lots of fun things for her including her baby shower invites and now baby is finally here!

Here is a picture of new Mommy Jackie and newborn "Adrianna Marie Bianchi"!!

Please congratulate her on Facebook or Twitter!!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!