Abigayle Rhodes

The sketchbook spread that prompted the lino block that took forever.

I may have gotten a little obsessed when I watched Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein adaptation, it’s one of my favourite books and Guillermo Del Toro is such a fantastic artist. Fun fact: I own three copies of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, scroll to see my favourite copy, in which the cover looks suspiciously like Jacob Elordi.

This time last week and I were in Montreal seeing !! This was the view from our lodgings.

We had 5 hours between check out and when our train left, and we were too tired to spend it any other way than loafing in the train station. A ton of time to whip out my sketchbook.

I usually feel weird about drawing in public because I’m ✨d e e p l y✨ uncomfortable by that kind of attention, so of course a woman had to come up and comment on what I was working on to really test my comfort zone.

Before I went back to school (2021-2023) I had slowly started taking opportunities to be a vendor at various events, selling prints and stickers of my work as well as attempting to sell those same things online.

While I was in school I stopped working towards this and stopped developing commercial work for lack of time, but it’s something I’m very interested in doing again AFTER I’ve thought thoroughly about what I want that facet of my work to look like.

In the meantime, I have a TON of old stock taking up space in my office that I want to be rid of so I can start fresh. I have no idea what the best avenue is for me to sell off some of these old prints, and I would love to hear about your experiences with selling your work, however you find works best for you.

I know this may be a big ask, because some folks don’t like to give away their ✨ secrets ✨ but if you’d like to share, comment on this post or DM me! I would also appreciate you sharing with your other artists friends selling merch! I’d love to hear a lot of perspectives!