Evening attire w/ Maribel and Rachel!

Sitting in my office, starting another Steemit post at 1:00a.m. It’s not a great look for me. I just got over a stomach flu and this morning, on little sleep shortly after dropping my son off at school, the nurse called for me to pick him up. Yeah. He was sick. In Magic: The Gathering, there are a few spells and enchantments that turn your creatures in to 1/1 creatures with no abilities. @tarotbyfergus have deemed that the equivalent of catching a cold or flu. You’re not dead, but you’re certainly not a threat to anybody. @guthrie has been a 1/1 creature with no abilities for most of the day, and around the evening, @vermillionfox became the same. This entire night, I’ve been trying to work while juggling sick bay responsibilities.

If you read my post yesterday, I’m still riding the optimism despite the bearest of bear markets right now. It’s almost the end of the month and my mortgage is due. I hope I’m wrong, but it’s looking like a troublesome client isn’t coming through with money owed for services rendered. I mean, maybe it’ll still happen, but I can’t count on it by the end of the month. Even in such a depressing slump, I am eternally grateful I can sell some crypto to cover that until things either get sorted out, or go to small claims court […really hoping it doesn’t come to that]. If things shake out for the better, I’ll buy it right back, but as a guy who has a family to support and exhausted credit, this is still financial salvation.

Also in last night’s Steemit post, I mentioned that I’ve been catching up on a ton of clients owed from Viva Las Vegas in April, or earlier. Tonight, I’m continuing that with new edits of Maribel and Rachel; two beautiful models and close friends from Las Vegas. I’ve shared photos of these ladies in my previous post, “Spooky girls at The Artisan!”. We did shoot at The Artisan Hotel, one of my favorite places in Vegas to take pictures. The first look was a Michael Hussar inspired creepy clown girls concept. These photos were more dark and elegant with both models wearing slinky, right evening gowns. It’s great to have the time to pull off two completely different concepts in the same night.

I’m going to wrap this up because I do have to get to bed. Most likely, @guthrie and @vermillionfox will still be under the weather tomorrow, which means I’ll be running back and forth between them with 7UP, pear slices, soup and medicine. There will be more from this shoot coming, and if all goes well, some new work from a trip to LA and Vegas in August. I’m going to try and get in a half hour of drawing or reading comics on the iPad Pro before I retire for the evening. Hope you’re all doing well and staying above the stress. Thanks for reading and supporting. For more photography, art, illustration and the stories behind the work, follow me here @kommienezuspadt!