Dammit! I was just about to start a sentence that went something like “…it’s midnight, and I’m just sitting down for my evening Steemit post.”. In actuality, it’s 1:30a.m. The thing that sucks about that is how much I wanted to break in to a comic illustration book I’ve had for years. Framed Ink, as much of the illustration work I’m doing right now is inking. Sadly, that’s going to have to wait. Crazy night. I launched my Cyber Monday print shop, as detailed in last night’s post, “Photography print shop and 10,000 STEEM POWER!”, and it’s going bananas. I’ve sold over 40 signed photos of 
I wanted to go on with some ranting, but if I’m going to get in bed before 2:00a.m., I’m going to have to break this one off and get straight to the photography. It’s been a piece since I posted any pinup work, so after a tumultuous week of holidays and freelance business, it’s been nice to return to the hallowed corners of Photoshop for this evening’s installment of dark pinup imagery. These images are of a New Zealand pinup named Ceara, shot in Auckland with help from my friend Ella, aka, Miss Victory Violet. We booked these sessions together. She did hair and make-up and I shot with the backdrop of Shanghai Lil’s bar.
Coming back to this shoot after a few months, I’m falling in love with them all over again. Ceara’s skin is absolutely perfect, and Ella did a world class job with hair and make-up. I’d exchanged a few emails with Ceara leading up to the shoot and she was nervous; maybe even a little insecure. Once we started shooting, she relaxed and I was confident we were getting photos at this calibre. As soon as I make this post, I’ll be emailing them to her and I can’t wait for her reaction to them. That entire day in Auckland was magic, but these are exceptional.
Thanks for reading! It’s been a really trying week but I feel I’ve amassed some big successes in the ongoing struggle to live on my art, and my art alone. Thanks to 
