Bethany Sellers

@bethanysellers

Illustrator, graphic designer, and cartoonist. I make the webcomic The Talisman of Halios. (she/her) ✦ Contact: bethanysellersart@gmail.com ✦ Links: bethanysellers.carrd.co

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Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 13d

I went to an exhibition on Greco-Roman Egypt today and met these two hotties.

Fayum mummy portrait of a woman from Roman Egypt ca. 138–160 CE.

Fayum mummy portrait of a man from Roman Egypt ca. 185–195 CE.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 16d

Months ago I registered to table at a convention coming next week without fully registering that it's a three-day show, and only yesterday did they post that the actual vendor hours for each day is 8:00 – 6:00.

Antoni Porowski staring with his eyes bugged out.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 24d

There are only two correct answers for me.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 25d

Instead of accepting this and moving on like perhaps a reasonable adult, I of course must go back and fix the older art.

Bugs Bunny dressed as Rick Blaine looking miserable.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 25d

Nothin' like comparing the art from chapter 1 of your webcomic to chapter 6 and realizing how much longer you accidentally made one of your character's hair over time. 🫩

Two images of Elana in chapters 1 and 6 from my comic The Talisman of Halios.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· 28d

This page threatened to murder me and my entire family. #wip

WIP panels from my webcomic The Talisman of Halios. Reya, Kyrian, and Elana walk through a crumbling city street with several skellies on the ground.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jul 14

Hey-hey #PortfolioDay! I'm Bethany, an illustrator, graphic designer, and cartoonist. I love drawing fantastical nature scenes. I'm open for freelance work and would love to work on comic or book covers! ✦ bethanysellers.com/illustration ✦ bethanysellersart@gmail.com

Illustration of a woman in a dress holding a bouquet. A star sits in the sky above her head, and there are clouds behind her.

A woman with long wavy hair swirling around her. Flowers and leaf stems are woven in her hair.

A page from the webcomic The Talisman of Halios.

Illustration of a woman in a dress with long swirling hair entangled in tree branches.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jul 6

There’s someone on FB Marketplace who keeps trying to sell this Sailor Moon doll for $100, and I wish them all the luck in the world.

Facebook Marketplace listing for a $100 Sailor Moon doll in the box.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jul 4

MAN, this is a really good book.

"You want some water?"

"No. I'll tell you the problem with engineers and scientists. Scientists have an elaborate line of bullshit about how they are seeking to know the truth about nature. Which is true, but that's not what drives them. Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.'

"Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something. They conveniently define such considerations as pointless. If they don't do it, someone else will. Discovery, they
believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science. Even pure scientific discovery is an aggressive, penetrative act. It takes big equipment, and it literally changes the world afterward. Particle accelerators sear the land, and leave radioactive byproducts. Astronauts
leave trash on the moon. There is always some proof that scientists were there, making their discoveries. Discovery is always a rape of the natural world. Always.
"The scientists want it that way. They have to stick their instruments in. They have to leave their mark. They can't just watch. They can't just appreciate. They can't just fit into the natural order. They have to make something unnatural happen. That is the scientist's job, and now we have whole societies that try to be scientific." He sighed, and sank back.

Ellie said, "Don't you think you're overstating–"

"What does one of your excavations look like a year later?"

"Pretty had," she admitted.

"You don't replant, you don't restore the land after you dig?"

"No."

"Why not?"

She shrugged. "There's no money, I guess. . . .”

"There's only enough money to dig, but not to repair?"

"Well, we're just working in the badlands. . . ."

"Just the badlands," Malcolm said, shaking his head. "Just trash. Just byproducts. Just side-effects . . . I'm trying to tell you that scientists want it this way. They want byproducts and trash and scars and side effects. It's a way of reassuring themselves. It's built into the fabric of science,
and it's increasingly a disaster."

"Then what's the answer?"

"Get rid of the thintelligent ones. Take them out of power."

"But then we'd lose all the advances–“

"What advances?" Malcolm said irritably. "The number of hours women devote to housework has not changed since 1930, despite all the advances. All the vacuum cleaners, washer-dryers, trash compactors, garbage disposals, wash-and-wear fabrics . . . Why does it still take as long to
clean the house as it did in 1930?"

Ellie said nothing.

"Because there haven't been any advances," Malcolm said. "Not really. Thirty thousand years ago, when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water,
beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week. Thirty thousand years ago."

Ellie said, "You want to turn back the clock?"

"No," Malcolm said. "I want people to wake up. We've had four hundred years of modern science, and we ought to know by now what it's good for, and what it's not good for. It's time for a change."

"Before we destroy the planet?" she said.

He sighed, and closed his eyes. "Oh dear," he said. "That's the last thing I would worry about."

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 30

How do y'all feel about white dialogue in a black word bubble? I have a character I want to use it for, and want some way to differentiate it from regular dialogue, but wasn't sure if people found this harder to read.

White dialogue text in a black word bubble.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 29

I started reading Jurassic Park, and lemme tell you I looooaathe that the only new edition that’s apparently out there (besides the massive B&N hardcover) is the mass market paperback size, aka my enemy.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 27

I'm gonna be fighting this battle *many* times for the next several pages. #wip

A comic panel showing the outside of a crumbly old castle wall covered with overgrown plants.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 23

Getting ready to color a page and realizing there's a panel where I completely drew a character's clothes backwards.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 7

A short inking process vid I’ve posted elsewhere as proof of life of my webcomic.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Jun 1

It’s officially Squirrel Sploot Season again.

A squirrel laying flat on a balcony railing.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 31

I scored at the H-Mart claw machines today.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 29

There are now two positions I've applied to where I've immediately gotten a call from their AI "HR assistant" to conduct a screening interview.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 16

I just got out from seeing Obsession (which RULED), and spotted an actual unicorn.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 13

Clip Studio users: for a little while I've had this issue where, when I draw round shapes, I get weird angles. It's not as obvious when I draw slowly, but they're still there. I don't have this issue in Photoshop, and when I restart my computer the problem goes away temporarily, but then comes back.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 13

Also-also, since I was in the area, I HAD to swing by Hooper’s, aka the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre house. (It was originally in Round Rock, but was later moved and converted into a restaurant.)

The outside seating area showing the Hooper’s sign.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 13

Also, we saw a wee bat. 🥹

A small, sleeping tricolored bat hanging on a wall.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 13

My dad and aunt camping outside of Austin, so I met with them to go to Longhorn Caverns on a cave tour.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 12

✨ Her. ✨

My tuxedo cat laying on her back between my legs on a blanket.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 10

Today is my birthday, so yesterday i went with family to the Titanic: The Human Story exhibition. 😌 I’m also now the proud owner of an ~authentic~ replica mug.

Me standing in a replica of a hallway in the Titanic.

A display case with a prop life jacket from the movie Titanic surrounded by movie posters.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 7

Grant me the strength to resist the urge to redraw a bunch of my old art from a comic I haven't worked on in two years.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 7

I miiight have started working on my webcomic again after a long hiatus. Maybe.

Dexter’s dad peeking out from behind a staircase.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 5

I met a friend. 😌💚

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· May 2

I fell in love with this brand of chocolate when I was in Seattle last year, so discovering that World Market sells it is VERY dangerous for me.

Maeve chocolate bars sitting in display boxes.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Apr 30

I went in a bit of a rabbit hole on 60s concert poster designs, and have totally forgotten how much I love the style of these.

1967 concert poster for Otis Rush and Grateful Dead.

1960s concert poster for Martha and the Vandellas.

1960s concert poster for Jefferson Airplane, Gábor Szabó, and Jimi Hendrix.

1960s concert poster for The Doors, The Yardbirds, James Cotton Blues Band, and Richie Havens.

Bethany Sellers@bethanysellers· Apr 28

A detail I appreciate in movies is when the product placement is region-specific. Like, I'm rewatching Miss Congeniality -- which mostly takes place in San Antonio -- and both Shipley Do-Nuts and Mr. Gatti's Pizza make an appearance.