OC, Victoria Sweet Digital artwork of a beautiful, pale, dark-haired woman with a red rose pinned in her hair posed theatrically with an arm resting over her head and a hand delicately lifted to her mouth. She has decorated herself with gold and numerous strings of pearls like rosaries dripping with teardrop rubies and human canine teeth, and she wears a simple, draping white gown with a slit in the side to show off the rose and diamonds on her garter band and a plunging neckline which reveals a horrible, gaping maw of vicious teeth which opens in her exposed ribcage. Her smile is sultry and extends into a sinister, inhuman Glasgow smile. Atop her head sits a golden halo like a crown of thorns, which seems to glow with a radiance of its own. The background is deep maroon and pink, with a rose motif and a bright, saintly circle behind her head.

I don't need your roses, I like men on their knees 🥀🙏

#CarmineArt #Inamorata

We're loreposting Carmelita today, I guess, because LoS asks good questions and sometimes I have answers.

#Inamorata #BadManners

Linear lineup of Carmelita, L, Victoria, Anja, and a rough sketch of a humanoid monster lined up on a heigh chart with imperial measurements on the left and metric on the right. A black arrow points to L, who is significantly shorter than her wife and daughters, and reads "short motherfucker" written with an index finger on a phone screen

Lining up the #Inamorata / #BadManners bitches for comic design consistency and remembered how @dapperdinobot.bsky.social's scary goth murdermittens is like, one banana high counting the heels, and I have not stopped giggling since.

#WIP

Digital sketch of a towering humanoid monster with golden horns like a halo, partially skeletal wings and an exposed ribcage, a toothy Glasgow grin, and no visible eyes ballroom dancing with a significantly smaller woman in a black dress and skeleton paint. The woman's eyes are closed, fully trusting the creature to dip her dramatically, which she does with care and enthusiasm.

Fly me to the moon,
Let me play among the stars 🌙🖤⭐️

#Inamorata

This gets the #Inamorata and #BadManners lore tags bc it makes me laugh every time it comes up in canon or conversation

Digital artwork of two women, Carmelita and her stepsister, Anja. Anja is significantly taller, with ombre pink hair, multiple facial piercings, pink heart sunglasses, and a rockabilly-punk style in bright pink and polka dots. She bends down to playfully embrace her grimacing sister from behind. Carmelita, in direct contrast, wears all black and a wide-brimmed hat with a lace veil and red ostrich feathers. Her hands are clawed and a black gradient creeps from her hands up her wrists like an infection.

Awful news everyone, I've been possessed by the idea of following #Inamorata with a shorter comic set in modern day featuring the edgelord crimebag and her unicorn vomit sister, specifically because I think it would funny to see them make no effort to fill their horrid mothers' shoes.

#BadManners

OC, Carmen Romero (aka Carmelita) Thighs-up digital artwork with minimal rendering of a red-haired Hispanic woman on a grey background. She wears a sleeveless black wiggle dress with two decorative gold buttons, a large black hat with red ostrich feathers tilted down to cast her face into shadow, and gold jewelry and rings. A dark gradient creeps from her hands to her arms like an infection, and a thin trail of blood trickles feom her mouth and down her neck. Behind her, meandering tendrils of darkness spread where her shadow should be, and two eerie, black arms with claws - presumably those of her her own shadow - pose independently, smoking a nonexistent cigarette that trails a smoke shadow along the top of the image.

Anyways, back to art. Tryna streamline the style and rendering for #Inamorata, so here's that piece of Carmelita's ref sheet from yesterday, minus the lore threads.

#CarmineArt

Loose digital sketch with watercolor wash of two women at a western American saloon bar, an AU of Carmine's #Inamorata character designs. The woman on the left, L, leans casually against the bar with her revolver on display in one hand. She is dressed in all black, except for purple ruffles, purple feathers in her broad hat, and a red rose pinned to her riding coat. The woman in the right, Victoria, sits on the bar in a playful, risqué pose and leans back over her. She wears a stylized white saloon girl getup with red bows and ruffles and grins broadly, showcasing golden fangs on both sides.

Anyways have a Wild West saloon AU as suggested by @monsterfucker.bsky.social

Victoria owns a popular but slightly disreputable saloon and is concerningly friendly with that infamous outlaw woman, La Calavera. Like. Really friendly. Very heterosexually friendly.

#scribbles #inamorata

Digital concept sketching page for Carmine's character, Lucita Santo Domingo, a film noir inspired private detec4ive and monster hunter styled after 1930s Chicago fashions.

OCs, Lucita and Zoya Digital sketch with rough digital watercolor in greyscale and pink. Image depicts two women standing beneath a black umbrella against a grey, rainy background. Lucita, the Latina woman holding the umbrella, wears a long black coat over a suit and leans on a silver-handled cane. She stands poised with her chin and eyebrows lifted. Zoya, the blonde woman, is very pale and wears a baby pink coat ruffed in white fur and round, rose tinted sunglasses. She huddles close to Lucita as she looks out into the distance, one hand on her companion's arm and the other laid loosely but intimately around her shoulders.

Digital sketch of a pale pink humanoid monster crouched against a sickly Grey background. The creature has no eyes, but rather multiple horns encircling their head like a crown and halo, and a Glasgow gein which splits open to expose multiple rows of horrible, sharp teeth. Her ribcage is exposed, a second gaping mouth opens within it like a gaping wound, and a set of skeletal wings delicately webbed with thin skin shot through with visible vasculature enfolds her.

Thighs-up digital sketches with color showcasing the main three #Inamorata characters side by side. The two women in black both wear large feather hats reminiscent of one another - one carries a whip of shadows coiled over the shoulder, the other twin pistols training tendrils of smoke and shadow. The woman in the middle wears all white woth a rose in her hair and a necklace like blood drops, and poses with her claw-like nails on display.

#PortfolioDay SFW edition:

I'm known for pinups, but I do a lot of original character concept sketching for comic, novel, queer romance, and TTRPG projects. Lots of fashion history and midcentury macabre.

Personal projects: #SaintSunday and #Inamorata

#scribbles

Digital sketch of two women standing back to back. Tarset, a tall Black woman, wears an off-white dress with a blue sash and a head scarf reminiscent of an Egyptian mummy's traditional burial headdress. Her golden staff and various parts of her clothing are adorned with glowing golden eyes, and a large sphynx cat perches on her shoulder. Carmen, the shorter Hispanic woman, wears a black bolero dress with red accents, a red scarf, and red feathers on her wide-brimmed black hat. She tilts the hat down over her eyes with one hand and holds a coiled whip of shadowy tendrils in the other. Only her hands cast shadows, which do not match what her actual hands are doing.

The Louvre jewel robbers, probably.

They're going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

#inamorata #scribbles

OC, L[a Calavera], belongs to @dapperdinobot Digital sketch with rough digital watercolor wash depicting a Hispanic woman in all black posed against a grey background riddled with bleeding bulletholes with one hand on her hip and the other resting against her forehead theatrically. She wears white and black makeup painted to look like a skull and ribcage, and a wide-brimmed black hat with dark purple ostrich feathers. She casts no real shadow - instead, tendrils of smoke and shadow curl from beneath the hem of her skirt and from the ends of her hair.

A scribble for @dapperdinobot.bsky.social before I wade into re-attempting some commission stuff.

I just like L in her La Calavera era facepaint a lot. 💀

#scribbles #Inamorata

(Any pronouns) Digital sketch of a crouching humanoid monster with golden horns and claws, no eyes, a horrible wide mouth full of vicious teeth, an exposed ribcage, and various awful bone bits and additional mouths where they don't belong. Their huge, partially skeletal wings are webbed with flesh so thin the veins are visible.

Making the executive decision to redesign the bone bitch for the monsterfucker gaze. 🦴🤍

#inamorata #scribbles

Digital sketch of a regal Black woman with serpentine eyes, a headdress of beads and feathers, gold jewelry, and a king cobra wrapped around her neck and up into her locs.

Last one for OC-tober a day late

Originally #24: Worst Enemy and then just turned into an #Inamorata supporting character concept sketch

#scribbles #OC-tober

OC, Victoria Sweet Digital sketch of a monstrous woman in profile, her jaw unhinged and mouth split wide in a horrific, toothy, hungry grin bordering on a snarl, her dark hair billowing past her. One bloodied, clawed hand is lifted as if to lick the blood from her fingers. Her numerous golden horns are decorated with pearls and resemble a halo.

OC-tober #14, "What the mirror shows."

I'll eat the world then eat the spoon.

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

(Might circle back to finish this as a Halloween piece, we'll see.)

Digital sketch of Carmine's OC, Victoria Sweet, dressed in all white except for a red bow in her hair and at her throat, planting a sweet goodbye kiss on her wife's forehead as she sees her off on another globetrotting bloodbath of an adventure.

OC-tober #15: A Kiss

Be brave and be brutal, my darling. 💋

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

Digital art mess of a cathedral-like space made of bone and flesh with blood vessels climbing like vines. Hazy light streams through taut, thin skin stretched like stained glass windows, and a huge, glowing heart grows from the ribcage that comprises the vaulted ceiling, dangling by arteries and stringy tendrils of flesh. The figure of a woman kneels in the middle of it all.

OC-tober #39: "Nightmares"

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

#scribbles #Inamorata

Digital sketch of Vie, a dark-haired, horned woman with an extra set of skeletal arms, grinning and embracing her "daughter," Anja, a similarly monstrous woman with pink hair and boney protrusions like thorns up her arms.

I've started (and failed embarrassingly at) like seven different sketches for #5, "hug," so I'm blatantly giving up and posting a doodle of Vie and their daughter, Anja, from earlier this year, and we're all gonna nod and pretend it counts.

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

OC, Carmen Romero Digital art in black and warm greyscale. The stark silhouette of a woman in a wide brimmed hat and billowing trenchcoat stands below a city streetlight, smoke drifting from her cigarette holder up into the oppressive darkness. A sphinx cat in a golden collar sits nearby. They cast no shadows. Instead, inky tendrils creep across the ground, crawling into the night and towards the viewer. The edges of both figures seem to dissolve insubstantially into the blackness.

OC-tober #12, "Secrets"

An experimental redraw of an old piece from 7 or 8 years ago

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

That same picture, but she has black hair with a champagne streak and the corset is blood red.

I'll always love the angel look most, but it entertains me to no end that they just do the Clark Kent's Glasses thing with their hair and wardrobe for like 137 years.
#scribbles #inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet Digital sketch of a very pale character with white hair, clawed feet, and a second set of monstrous, partially skeletal arms reclining against a pink background with their arms above their head. They wear a white corset inlaid with glittering crystals and a halo-like headpiece of stylized golden thorns. A couple roses are scattered nearby, and one is attached to their garter band.

OC-tober #7 is "lingerie"
I don't want your roses, I want men on their knees.

Ft. Vie's OG marble angel look, est. 1898 (modern palette in the comments)
#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

OC, Carmen Romero Digital sketch with rough, mostly greyscale or muted watercolor. A Hispanic woman in a black dress and large black hat adorned with red ostrich feathers sambas with her own sentient shadow, which grips her possessively from behind. Wisps of darkness drift between her outstretched hands, and delicate black tentrils attach her shadow to her feet, tying them together inextricably, no matter how they may fight one another for control.

OC-tober #24 is "Worst enemy"

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

Bonus design sketchwork examples below.

I also have two horror mystery comics in the works, #Inamorata and #SaintSunday, and my concept sketches (and shitposting) are all filed neatly under #scribbles.

Digital scribble of a woman in all black kneeling in the dark, arms up to claw her face, as an enormous, monstrous centipede entity with a skull-like head and multiple sets of toothy mandibles coils around her to drool onto her from above. Pure darkness pours from its mouth into her and overflows from her eyes and skin.

#49: Trauma
Ft. Carmen's worst day

I hit my time limit with this so it'll stay unfinished forever, but I think I wanna revisit it someday and try again.

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet Digital sketch with rough, muted watercolor. A dark-haired woman in a white gown dances by herself in the dark, surrounded by fireflies.

Prompt #8 is "Summer's night"

The best things in life are free.

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

Two women, one in black and one in white, lying on their backs in opposite directions, their heads turned to face each other, fingers loosely playing with one another's hair, noses just barely not touching. They gaze at one another, infatuated.

It's still International Lesbian Day for one hour here, it counts and colloquially so do these two.

Prompt #21, "Love of my life"

#OC-tober #scribbles #inamorata

OC, Victoria Sweet Digital artwork in gold, pink, and red of a monstrous dark-haired woman with horns, claws, and partially skeletal bat-like wings kneeling in a pinup pose in a pool of blood. She holds one hand delicately beside her mouth and leans on a human skull with the other while grinning mischievously at the viewer. A tail comprised of vertebrae and ending in fleshy, toothy petals coils around her. Behind her is a simple golden frame and ring of gold which frame her head like a halo.

OC, Carmen Romero Digital artwork of a red-haired woman posed against a grey background. She wears a wide-brimmed black hat and black dress broken only by a red waist tie, short red scarf at the throat, and a plume of red ostrich feathers on the hat. A dark gradient creeps from her blackened claws and fingertips up her arms like an infection, and her eyes shine like a cat's from beneath the brim of her hat. Behind her, her shadow lurks with its monstrous arms closing in on her, while shadowy tendrils curl about her waist.

OCs, Lucita and Zoya Digital artwork of two backlit women holding each other on a grey and gold art deco background. The Latina woman in the left, Lucita, wears a smart dark grey suit and Panama hat as she romantically dips Zoya, a peroxide blonde white woman in a pink gown, who tips her head back as Lucita leans in to kiss her throat. In her right hand, Lucita delicately holds the handle of her silver sword cane, which she's driven through Zoya's heart and out her back, spilling blood down the back of the pink dress.

OC, Anja Sweet Digital portrait of a woman with multiple facial piercings, ombre white-to-pink hair styled in a retro victory roll, heart shaped sunglasses, and dressed in a rockabilly polka dot top and dark pink bomber jacket with shoulder spikes. She poses playfully with her split tongue stuck out at the viewer.

Oh hey, congrats on 2k! That's exciting and it's cool to see you grow so much since back when this site was still little. 🖤

I'm Carmine, I almost exclusively draw OCs, mostly from my two queer horror mystery comics in progress, #Inamorata and #SaintSunday, and sometimes from games.

Digital sketch of two women, one dressed in all black and one in all white, slow dancing serenely. The woman in black oozes wisps of shadow from the skirt of her dress, and the woman in white seems to have an Elizabethan collar made of her own bone and flesh.

One of these things is hell and gunmetal in a pint sized package. The other baked cookies.

#inamorata #scribbles

OCs, La Calavera (belongs to @dapperdinobot) and Victoria Sweet Digital sketch of two brunette women having a cute moment. The woman in front, L, wear skull facepaint and all black with a giant black hat adorned with purple feathers, and grins back over her shoulder at the second more monstrous woman in white, Victoria, who hugs her from behind and kisses the back of her neck sweetly.

OCs, La Calavera (belongs to @dapperdinobot) and Victoria Sweet The same sketch as before but without La Calavera's namesake skull facepaint or Victoria's toothy Glasgow smile mouth

Sorry not sorry for the upcoming #inamorata shitposting, I just love Vie and her scary goth gunslinger wife so much and they seize control of my brain sometimes. 🖤🩸🤍

#scribbles

Cropped digital artwork-in-progress of a grinning woman with sharp teeth, a rose in her hair, and dangling strings of pearls wrapped around her hand.

Show some teeth, doll 🤍🥀

#WIP #Inamorata