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Carmine 🖤✨❤️

@carminedeville.bsky.social

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✨(Un)Official Evil Lesbian Representative✨ 🏳️‍🌈she/they•immortal🥀 Queen of Fiends, pinup and OC artist, and monsterfucker. 🔞/❌AI/often NSFW #CarmineArt WIPs: #SaintSunday & #Inamorata ☕ https://ko-fi.com/carminedeville

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7d

✨10k+ followers DTIYS time!✨
Ft. both the Sweets for Spooky Month bc none of us could pick and I do too much.

Draw your favorite!
🩷🧁Anja
OR
❤️🥀Victoria

Rules and more refs below! Ends Dec. 31st at midnight, and I'll draw one winner for each character. Use #Carmine10kDTIYS. 🖤

Composite image of two corresponding characters side by side.
On the left is Anja, a young woman with ombre pink hair in a victory roll wearing a red and pink polka dot swing dress. She poses, grinning, with a tray of pink cupcakes and a human heart in one hand, and offers a cupcake in the other. Each cupcake is topped with an eyeball. Her second set of partially skeletal arms playfully lift her skirt a little.
On the right is Vie, Anja's "mother," a more mature femme fatale with long black hair with a champagne streak, sharp teeth and nails, and mouths where mouths don't belong. They wear an elegant blood red dress decorated with strings of pearls and various jewelry, and pose with a human heart in one hand and skeletal hands on her hips.

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🎃 Soturisi 🎃 Watercolor comms OPEN! @soturisi.bsky.social · 9h

Hello #portfolioday✨

I'm Sotu illustrator and concept artist from Spain who loves char design.
I worked on videogame industry for 6 years as concept artist and 3d texturizer but right now I'm open to work and working on my own game project in watercolors.

[email protected]
✏️ soturisi.carrd.co

greenhouse sheet, isometric view painted in watercolors

a man in brown clothes, a witch hat carrying a tray with cookies.

Arround him there are a bunch on tiny ginger bread cookies doing random stuff.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7h

It's #PortfolioDay again!

I'm Carmine, a rabid lesbian and hobby artist best known for pinups and original character design, often incorporating midcentury-modern themes and macabre elements.

Some of my other character designs are in the comments!

#CarmineArt
☕/tips: ko-fi.com/carminedeville

OC, Carmen Romero
Digital artwork of a woman in lingerie and heels posed confidently in an antique upholstered armchair. In one black, clawed hand she loosely holds a cigarette holder and lit cigarette, which trails smoke across the top of the image, and her other hand is draped over the armrest. A Columbian rainbow boa curls up her arm and around her shoulders, and a second set of shadowy black arms pose eerily behind her. The image is lit with iconic film noir slats of light and shadow, and a large, theatrical black hat casts much of her face into darkness, except for one shining golden eye visible beneath the brim.

OC, Victoria Sweet
Digital painting of a deathly pale woman with long dark hair, multiple curling horns tipped in gold, and fangs backlit by a full moon against a starless night sky. She ecstatically holds a fresh human heart in one clawed hand as the fanged mouth in her palm bites into it, spilling blood down her arm. Golden light pulses at the center of the heart and sparkles through the blood rivulets. Another mouth lined with jagged teeth gapes open at the center of her external ribcage, and she holds her translucent, partially skeletal bat-like wings at a low, casual angle.

OC, Mori
Image of a red half-fiend woman with long red hair pulled into a ponytail sitting in a pinup pose on a burgundy skull chair. She wears a spiderweb corset in such a dark purple it's nearly black, garters, and iridescent feather collar, and holds up a finger encircled in swirling, crackling purple magic.

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.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1h

She knows she's cute and weaponizes it

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birdko🦇🎃 @birdko.art · 2h

Hi #PortfolioDay ! I'm Ieva, a freelance digital artist from Portugal specializing in TTRPG/fantasy character design and illustration! 💗

More info on my website; for commissions, join my Ko-fi for early access and my Discord for art updates!

🔗 birdko.art
🔗 ko-fi.com/birdko
🔗 discord.gg/6UTXKrZntU

Collage of three artworks side to side in a similar style.

1. A full-body digital illustration of Alexa in an Art Nouveau style referencing Alphonse Mucha's "Spring". She is a half-elf with fair skin and bright ginger hair falling in long swoops; her eyes are aqua blue matching the colour of the gems adorning her red beret, her single earring and her choker. She wears blue stays and red puff sleeves, long gloves and over-the-knee boots embroidered with gold. A cloth monogrammed with the initials 'A.I.' is tucked into her belt, and a flowing pink cloth wraps around her legs. Alexa is holding a silver rapier with one gloved hand and touching its blade with the fingertips of the other, as she looks to the side with a smirk. The background features Art Nouveau-style decorative elements with swooping vines, trailing roses and blooming lilies in a soft pastel colour scheme.

2. Full body Art Nouveau style of Ellia, a tiefling paladin, within an ornamental frame. She has ivory wings tinged with gold and pink, red skin with dark-tipped horns, short black hair, and pure gold eyes. She wears ornate white and gold armour. She is holding the Sword of Zariel with one hand; her red cape is folded over her other arm. All around her feet, snowdrops bloom. Ellia belongs to tieflingpaladin on bsky.

3. Art nouveau style drawing of Menardi, an elf woman with flowing white hair wearing metal and leather armour. She's standing in a misty/snowy landscape featuring bleeding heart flowers, and she's holding a bow in one hand and an arrow in another, looking down with a melancholy air. Menardi belongs to mimidrws on bsky.

Illustration of Amity and Kiana lying on their backs with their heads close together, reaching out to touch each other's hair as they look tenderly into each other's eyes. Stars swirl in the current around them. Amity is a dark-skinned girl with dragon-like horns and curly brown and pink hair. Kiana is a girl with pale skin and cat-like ears, white and purple hair, and yellow eyes rimmed in red makeup. Both characters belong to Lunewarden on Bluesky / Artfight.

Digital illustration of Alexa, a half-elven woman with pale skin, blue eyes and long red hair. She's wearing shimmery makeup and a circus ringmaster outfit. A heart-shaped spotlight is shining on her. She's holding a whip which is snapping in the air above her, as she touches a gloved hand to her top hat and smiles at the viewer.

Chibi lineup of the Forgekeepers: Artem, a tiefling rogue; Alexa, a half-elf bard; Dúri, a dwarf cleric; Theefsa, a goblin warlock; and Addan, an elf druid.
All characters other than Alexa belong to my D&D party friends (Theefsa belongs to lunelkie.bsky.social - Addan belongs to leki02.bsky.social); Alexa belongs to me.

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Jae COMMITS TO THE BIT🩸✨ @naladraws.com · 5h

“Jae what style do you draw in?”

Great question 🤣 I CONTAIN MULTITUDES!!!

Anyways I also am pretty good at matching a style if provided reference so…if you need art hmu I need work bc rent is expensive 😭

naladraws.com
[email protected]

Screenshot of Jae’s portfolio site landing page. There are 4 distinct styles present on the page: painting, linocut/block print, line art renders, and stage projection design.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 6h

OC-tober #24 is "Worst enemy"

#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.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1h

I'm overdue for a kitten update. Great news, Harrow is able to eat small amounts of her own and she's gonna make it, folks!

Look at this shitty little Halloween colored fuck. She's lucky she's cute.
🖤🧡🤍

Harrow, Carmine's calico foster kitten, posed playfully on a cat tree. She's still a shit-ass little bitch.

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Béla | comms OPEN @gruselzirkus.bsky.social · Jan 14

hi #portfolioday! i'm Béla, a trans male artist and sewist from Germany.

I love dark fantasy and historical fashion, therefore haveing accumulated a ridiculous amount of knowledge about old clothes lol
Always looking for entry positions into game art or freelance gigs!

a linocut style illustration of a dragon

tall, grey haired man with a shovel surrounded by undead in a medieval graveyard

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1h

I do, when I have commissions open (they are not currently open)

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 6h

Look I've been holding off from months asking this on Bluesky because of my pride but I need help.

My car needs brakes, my rent is past due and my step kid needs shoes.

I hate having to ask this

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HolBat (Waitlist on Dec) @kholbatar.bsky.social · 8h

PORTFOLIO DAY
#ARTSHARE

— drop your #PortfolioDay post;

like & rt this post for visibility;

like and rt on other people works;

-No A/I/N/F/T

(Optional): follow me if you want.

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Sygnin / DTIYS pinned! @sygnin.com · 6h

For anyone who’s actually looking to hire artists off #Portfolioday - remember there are Bookmarks here now!

Go smack that icon to save for later!

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 6h

OC-tober #24 is "Worst enemy"

#OC-tober #scribbles #Inamorata

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7h

Not currently taking work bc I'm forever in backlog hell and a little burnt out, but I'll reopen commissions someday.

Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7h

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.

Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · Jan 14

#PortfolioDay SFW edition:

I'm known for pinups, but I do a lot of original character concept sketching, often incorporating elements of film noir, horror, fantasy, and fashion history.

Here are a handful of designs for my various comic projects and games.

#CarmineArt #scribbles

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.

OC, Victoria Sweet
Greyscale sketch of a huge, horrid, gargoyle-esque creature with partially skeletal wings, curling horns, an exposed ribcage, and a verbetral tail ending in toothy, petal-like jaws. She crouches in the darkness, grinning with an unnaturally wide mouth lined with rows of long, vicious teeth.

OC, Lilja
Colored digital sketches featuring three images of a muscular, vulture-themed white woman with long, pale blonde hair, orange eyes, and birdlike talons.
The full body image on the left displays her from the back, with feathers on her legs from the calf down and vulture's feet. Feathers sprout from her temples, and longer feathers extend from her arms in large, semi-functional wings. An artist's note explains that she can't fly with them, but can glide short distances.
The middle image shows her grinning from the chest up to show her face clearly.
The image on the right shows her crouching and looking aside. Feathers grow from her shoulders and forearms, but they aren't wings as in the first image, implying she has multiple forms.
A few details show her fangs, eye color and makeup, and the crossbones she wears in her hair.

Three colored thighs-up digital sketches in a series, featuring the main characters of the artists' comic, #Inamorata, on grey backgrounds.
Left: A Hispanic woman dressed in black with red accents and red feathers on her wide brimmed hat, which casts a shadow over half her face. A dark gradient creeps up her arms from beneath her fingerless gloves like an infection. She poses against a grey background with a whip made of void-like shadows grasped in one black clawed hand and tips her hat with the other.
Middle: A very pale white woman with uncanny blue eyes and black hair in a 1940s style with a red rose pinned in it. She wears a white gown with draping sleeves and various jewelry of gold, pearls, and teardrop rubies. A web of flesh and bone extends from the back of her neck like a stand-up Elizabethan collar.
Right: A second Hispanic woman dressed stylishly in all black with dark purple accents. Her face, neck, and part of her chest is painted to resemble a skeleton, and her eyes burn red from the shadows beneath her hat's wide brim. She poses against a grey background with a smoking pistol in each clawed black hand.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 7h

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 1d

#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

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.

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Carmine 🖤✨❤️ @carminedeville.bsky.social · 22h

This is SO cute and perfect, I'm losing it!! This is such a fun idea and I just really love Dr Boots' retro pinup style 🩷🦴💖

Dr Boots🔞 @drbootsart.bsky.social · 1d

Carmine's OC Anja for their 10K+ followers DTIYS.

I may draw more depending on how much of a gremlin I feel like being.

#Carmine10kDTIYS

A retro style cut-out paper doll of a woman with pink hair done up in Victory Rolls. She's wearing a pink one piece swimsuit with white polkadots in the shape of ghosts. (One red ghost over her heart)
To her right are 3 alternative outfits.

#1. a red button up top tied off at the chest and a pair of grey denim jeans

#2 A pink spaghetti strap top with the words "Hell Cat" written across the chest. A short black pencil skirt and fishnet stockings.

#3 a tight black evening gown.

Did I mention she has an extra set of arms that are mostly skeletal with exposed muscle fiber extending from the hands and into the forearms? That seems important.

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Dr Boots🔞 @drbootsart.bsky.social · 1d

Carmine's OC Anja for their 10K+ followers DTIYS.

I may draw more depending on how much of a gremlin I feel like being.

#Carmine10kDTIYS

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Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 1d

Happy Indigenous People’s Day! Did you know I have a starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists? ✨

If you’re looking for Indigenous artists to support, this pack is full of them!

Mavis 👑🌊🌙 [FINAL BOSS] @mavisdeluna.art · 20d

My starter pack for Black and Indigenous artists is now FULL!

Thank you to everyone who contributed, tagged their friends, and submitted!

Please share this starter pack and support Black and Indigenous artists 💖

(NOTE: There are NSFW artists in this pack, myself included.)