mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures

@keymintt

🏜️ mintt/kelsey, 26, they/he 🦎 az-based illustrator & comic artist 🌵no ai ☀️ i like dragons and coyotes and the desert a lot !! 🐉 links portfolio- artofkeymintt.weebly.com email- keymintt.art@gmail.com

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mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jul 14

hellohello #portfolioday!! i'm kelsey, a freelance illustrator who specializes in animals, monsters, people, and everything in-between. i'm currently available for work! 🎨 artofkeymintt.weebly.com ✉️ keymintt.art@gmail.com

a traditional pen and ink drawing of a coyote curled in on itselt and partially covering its face with its paws, eye looking intently at the viewer. a burst of color in white, yellow, orange, pink, purple, and blue (painted in gouache) erupts from its neck.

digital illustration for a traffic cabinet of a mid-action rodeo cowboy riding a bull. a swirling, vibrant sunset sky can be seen behind the duo

a digital illustration of a stellar's jay in flight against the backdrop of a ponderosa pine forest. light green swirls accompany it and thread throughout the piece

somewhat-messy digital illustration of my oc grimm (they/it), a human wearing a robotic coyote suit of armor. the piece show's grimm's back from a slightly top-down angle and is rendered in bright red and ultramarine blue tones. there are multiple red linework overlays in the background of pieces of shrapnel and a diagram of a deconstructed gun. in white linework on top of everything else are two molecular structures: rdx and estradiol

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jun 21

mermay has passed, but pride month hasn't! so here's the annual au drawing hehe #ocs

digital drawing of my characters grimm (they/it) and yarrow (he/they) as merfolk. grimm's lower half is a blacktip reef shark and yarrow's is that of a lobster (but yellow/brown to fit their color scheme)

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jun 16

Thank you!!! I end up being super meticulous when I paint stuff like this lol

Photograph of the piece above in-progress as a pencil sketch with partially-painted gouache color. It's not very well-lit sorry

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jun 11

some traffic cabinet illustrations from earlier this year !!

digital illustration for a traffic cabinet of a sonoran desert scene at night, rendered on a lot of blue and purple tones. a canal flows through the desert

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· May 28

you're making a mess #ocs

digital drawing of my ocs yarrow (he/they) and grimm (they/it) making out. grimm has a nosebleed and blood is on both of their faces

digital drawing of my ocs yarrow (he/they) and grimm (they/it) making out. grimm is wearing blood-red lipstick, which yarrow is technically also wearing on account of the making out. he's also covered in kiss marks

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Apr 24

Now that @ashandgold.bsky.social's Iphigenia at Midnight project for #LancerRPG is out, I can share the artwork I had the pleasure of illustrating for it!!

Four characters in a sci-fi war room deliberating around a holographic table with various icons and coordinates hovering around a central planet. Outer space can be seen from the windows and everyone is lit in a cool blue light.

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Apr 23

i sketched this for valentine's day but it very clearly did not get finished on time #ocs

digital drawing of yarrow (he/they) and grimm (they/it) cuddling on a couch. the piece is mostly rendered in pink tones

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Apr 20

hey artists, if you see this, post a dog !!

an oil painting of a coyote amongst a flock of mourning doves. it's jumping to catch one just out of reach while others take flight around it. the background is an open blue sky.

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Apr 14

hellohello #portfolioday!! i'm kelsey, a freelance illustrator who specializes in animals, monsters, people, and everything in-between. i'll be available for work starting in may! 🎨 artofkeymintt.weebly.com ✉️ keymintt.art@gmail.com

somewhat-messy digital illustration of my oc grimm (they/it), a human wearing a robot coyote suit of armor. the piece show's grimm's back from a slightly top-down angle and is rendered in bright red and ultramarine blue tones. there are multiple red linework overlays in the background of pieces of shrapnel and a diagram of a deconstructed gun. in white linework on top of everything else are two molecular structures: rdx and estradiol

a digital illustration of two western tanagers in flight against the backdrop of a ponderosa pine forest. light green swirls accompany it and thread throughout the piece

traditional black and white drawing of a coyote in front of and overlaid with various comic-like panels. three panels show its head in different orientations, and several show the motion of its back and front legs as it has moved and will move. there is a pair of panels featuring a close-up of its eye as it looks in two directions and a single panel showing its tail in a lowered position. additional panels feature a hand holding a pen, a diagram of coyote teeth, and a bird in flight. in the near-solid black background there are music notes that dissolve into a neuron-like star pattern, as well as several eyes looking in different directions

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Apr 10

once more presenting : them #ocs

digital doodle of yarrow (he/they) and grimm (they/it) in bed. grimm is cozy and asleep, with its long hair fanning out on the pillow. yarrow (important context: they are part bee) is awake and grimacing. an arrow points to them and says "just woke up with grimm's hair in their mandibles for the 2nd morning in a row"

digital painting of yarrow from the shoulders-up. there's a yellow offset halo-like circle behind his head

doodly digital comic of a younger (early-20s) grimm and yarrow. yarrow says "hey!" to grimm with a smile and a wave. grimm replies with a small grin and a "...hi" before thinking to itself "i need to be shot."

digital drawing of grimm sitting atop their horse stormy looking bored and thinking to themself: "i'm going back on estrogen after this is all over"

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Feb 4

tossing these here #ocs

two-color drawing of my oc grimm (they/it) done in a wiggly sort of brush. it looks kinda animeish..?

doodle comic of yarrow reaching for something from a high cupboard while grimm watches his sweater hike up and expose his stomach. arrows point to grimm and say "is taller & could help" "choosing to watch instead"

compilation of squishy little drawings of grimm and yarrow asleep tangled up in each other, grimm kneeling on the bed and pawing at its pillow with yarrow asking "what are you doing", and lucy asleep hugging her striped tail

painted portrait of my oc yarrow (he/they) resting his head on his hands. most of him is rendered in gold, orange, and yellow tones where the shading is mostly a desaturated blue

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 30

test subject #ocs

digital illustration of my oc yarrow (he/they), a human mutated with honeybee features, in a cramped test tube lit up by green light. he's furious and pressed against the glass, snarling with his mandibles wide open and glowering. monitor pads with wires can be seen attached to their chest

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 18

quote with art you've gotten from other artists and promote them !! ✨🎨 part two bc like. look at them!!!!!! oh my god secret santa from @antlerlad.bsky.social art fight attack from @skyberia.bsky.social gift from @confusedlucifer.bsky.social art fight attack from @lylahammar.bsky.social

[from @antlerlad.bsky.social's alt text] An illustration with a decorative border of two cowpoke characters sharing an intimate moment. The border has drawings of a coyote tooth, a honeycomb, bee's wings, and a coyote claw, as well as dogbane and bee balm flowers. The characters are on cracked desert earth, one resting in the other's lap and holding their face. Their cowboy hats and revolver lay on top of a cloak nearby. The lighting is warm, perhaps at sunset.

digital art by @skyberia of both a portrait of yarrow and a fullbody of him. in the fullbody he's dozing peaefully

digital art by @confusedlucifer of grimm and yarrow dancing. yarrow is in the middle of spinning grimm around and is notably not bee'd (this takes place before that)

digital art by @lylahammar of grimm protectively snarling over yarrow, who is calmly dozing with a cowboy hat over his face. there are goldpoppies and lupines in the foreground and a lovely sonoran desert landscape in the background

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 18

quote with art you've gotten from other artists and promote them !! ✨🎨 BOY DO I HAVE ART TO SHARE!!!! i'm making two posts actually <3 gift from @cupronickell.bsky.social secret santa from @rennybu.bsky.social gift from @liokkamillie.bsky.social comm from @noisyghost.bsky.social

digital art by @cupronickell/honeybytte of grimm, who is looking up at yarrow (off-screen) with adoration in its eyes. yarrow's bug hand hold their face

digital art by @rennybu of grimm kissing yarrow's cheek. sunset-like lighting reflects in the background

comic by @liokkamillie. panels 1-2: yarrow leans on a fence and watches grimm brush stormy, emphasis is given to grimm's exposed back.
panels 3-4: yarrow mutters "God it's hot..." and grimm replies, "DId you say something, Yarrow?" Yarrow is very embarassed.
panels 5-6 : yarrow stammers and leans away from the fence saying "Oh, um, well. It's...hot outside?"
panel 7: grimm continues attending to stormy with an "it is pretty hot out today." while yarrow can be seen in the background burying their head in their hands

digital art by @noisyghost of yarrow with his bugmouth open, looking intimidating

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 16

a mural i had a lot of fun painting back in october (and forgot to post oops)

mural featuring a dragon and a unicorn in a brightly-colored desert landscape at sunset. the sky is full of swirling, dynamic shapes. two cats can also be seen playing at the bottom

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 13

hellohello #portfolioday!! i'm kelsey, a freelance illustrator and comic artist who specializes in animals, monsters, people, and everything in-between. i'll be available for work starting in march ! 🎨 artofkeymintt.weebly.com ✉️ keymintt.art@gmail.com

digital illustration of my ocs yarrow (he/they) and grimm (they/it). yarrow kneels and washes grimm's feet in a dingy motel room while grimm watches them in bewilderment, not believing it deserves something like this. both of them are backlit by haloes- yarrow's is a honeycomb-like hexagon while grimm's is circular and surrounded by barbed wire. the illustration is overlaid with red lineart of an anatomical heart above yarrow's head and a coyote with submissive posture on grimm's side of the piece. both are mutated humans; grimm looks almost entirely human but has some fur growing on their face, meanwhile yarrow has beelike features including mandibles, antennae, extra eyes, and asymmetrical carapace on their body, including their entire right arm.

traditionally-drawn black and white one-page comic.
first panel: three consecutive speech bubbles say "hey, let me know if you need anything, okay?" while covering up the worst of a roadkill coyote's viscera. there is still a pool of blood and tire skid marks. the blood drips down the entire comic
second and third panels: close up of the coyote's eyes as they look "at" someone/thing, then look away. it's unclear if it's dead or not.
fourth panel: the sun shines in the sky on a hot afternoon
fifth-seventh panels: sequence of the coyote, still in silhouette, laying on the asphalt, getting, up, and walking away with viscera still trailing behind it.

digital illustration of a mostly-silhouetted mule deer against the backdrop of the sonoran desert at night. swirling shapes fill the night sky and the entire piece is in shades of purple, blue, and seafoam green. the moon is overlapped by the deer's antler, almost giving it the appearance of a waxing gibbous

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 11

hot dog #ocs

one-page digital comic of my ocs grimm (they/it) and yarrow (he/they) sitting down and enjoying a meal together.
panel 1-2: they're eating together, as grimm unwraps and takes a bite of their hot dog, yarrow asks "Ain't that, y'know, cannibalism?"
panel 3: grimm (who is part-coyote) chews their food with a blank expression
panel 4-5: yarrow looks smug and says "Because it's a hot do—" befoer getting cut off by grimm's "I got it." grimm looks tried.
panel 6-7: grimm looks at yarrow and throws a fry at them, to their surprise and grimm's satisfaction

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 6

the space between knowing and believing #oilpainting

oil painting of a desert landscape. a semitransparent, ghostly coyote is superimposed over it with its eye corresponding to where the moon is in the daytime sky

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 2

all set up in the artist alley at PDFC!! i'll be here all three days :D

Photo of an artist alley booth with various prints and stickers

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Jan 1

half of these are in the art summary i posted earlier but i also wanted to jump in with an #artvsartist hehe

3x3 grid of various artworks of either original characters or coyotes with the artist in the center, making a peace sign with an ink-covered hand (my ink bottle spilled...)

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 31

art summary time!! coyotes keep their top spot as my number one favorites hehe

summary of art for 2025 with various pieces of artwork. a lot of them feature coyotes but the ones that don't either feature birds, my ocs, or in the case of july, @lylahammar's oc zorella

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 28

painted one of my cousin's favorites for christmas hehe #pokemon #skeledirge #watercolor

watercolor painting (with colored pencil) of the pokemon skeledirge with fire emerging from its open mouth

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 20

melody through the wind (another series of utility box illustrations!)

digital illustration in blue, pink, and purple tones of a coyote jumping against a forest backdrop. light colors swirl around it

digital illustration in pink, orange, and yellow tones of a coyote walking against a forest backdrop. light colors swirl around it

digital illustration in orange, yellow, green, and blue tones of a coyote standing against a forest backdrop. light colors swirl around it

digital illustration in green, blue, and purple tones of two coyote pups playing against a forest backdrop. light colors swirl around them

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 16

your restless feet, my restless hands #ocs

digital drawing of grimm (they/it) with their head in yarrow's (he/they) lap while the two of them are relaxing on a couch. yarrow's playing with grimm's hair while it sways its foot to music coming from a record player in the background. grimm's part-coyote and their tail and clawed foot can be seen, yarrow's part-honeybee and has various bug features like mandibles, exoskeleton, and antennae.

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 13

EHEHEE i sort of do..? my sona guy's a shapeshifter so they can go coyote mode i just don't draw em doing it all that often outside of like. concept doodles like these lmao

a coyote character wearing a cape that resembles dragon wings. they have a dragon tail and horns as well. a burst of light and color sits over their heart

a coyote character wearing a cape that resembles feathered wings. they have a dragon tail and horns as well. he has a mostly-human face and two arrows point to it saying "face detahces, NOT a mask" and "void where face is detached" a burst of light and color pours from a line across their throat. there's a coyote face drawn in the corner that says "also can have a coyote face" and another doodle where he has no face at all that says "can literally hide face"

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 12

shirt cut meme with grimm except it also turned into color practice lol #ocs

digital digital drawings of my oc grimm (they/it) with the shirt cut meme. first one (sideboob) is them leaning on a fence in a tank top with sunny colors.
second one (inner sideboob) is them leaning sitting while wearing one of yarrow's button-ups open and is colored with green tones.
third one (boob window) is it looking intensely with its shirt clawed open and is colored in saturated reds with grey.
fourth one (underboob) is them resting their hand on their head while wearing a cropped tank top with pink lighting from underneath.
fifth one (free space) is it sitting relaxed and fully naked with its long black hair covering its boobs (technically not a shirt i guess but whatever) rendered in soft pink tones

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Dec 5

yarrow's fun mouth, now animated #ocs #animation

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Nov 29

also a sketch vs final. i do all my painting on basically one layer (or. i duplicate the sketch and paint on that while keeping the original around) so i have fun flipping between the final and the sketch bc i'm very easily entertained

very sketch of the painting above. the next image has a description of the painting and this is basically a looser version of that

digital painting of my oc grimm (they/it) from the shoulders up, paralyzed with fear as a pair of pale, spectral hands grip their throat. a ray of light falls across their face, casting one of their eyes in normal light, while the other one reflects like that of an animal. the piece is overlaid with bright red drawings of bird wings mid-flight, as well as the crosshairs of a gun over its right eye (the one that looks human)

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Nov 28

scribbles #ocs

digital drawing of my ocs. grimm (they/it) leans over yarrow (he/they), whose head is in its lap, while gently cupping their face. Yarrow reaches up to touch grimm's face, which is obscured by its long hair, while smiling fondly

digital drawing of grimm peeling back its upper lip to reveal its bonus coyote incisors and canines

digital drawing of fully-human yarrow blushing lightly with a slightly scared/nervous expression. an arrow points to them saying "getting their hopes up again"

mintt 🏜 drawin' my pictures@keymintt· Nov 21

a series of illustrations for a utility cabinet featuring birds that can be seen in northern arizona's ponderosa pine forests !!