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I Make Art To Cope With Depression And Here Are 30 Of My Best Digital Paintings
About year and a half ago, I was depressed... and then I found drawing.
At first, it was simple for me, and I started to put all my thoughts and feelings into it. It was very comfortable to find a way out the darkness, there are many different ways, my art was mine, and I hope you will feel something!
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#1
Final score:
79points
Cambell D'Aloise 7 years ago
Can you please give me some tips on drawing? I myself have depression and anxiety and would love to draw like this, but I can’t...
My ideas are usually coming from how I feel. If I feel like I have heavy thoughts, I'll try to get rid of that feeling or just make it easier for me by painting it and sharing it with people. It's a real scientific way to cope, I think. Then I think about the easiest visual way to produce my idea... maybe I can draw just a couple of lines, maybe it has to be a complete color picture. Whichever I feel would be right and direct to the viewer's heart.
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#2
Final score:
77points
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 4 years ago
The fact that it's the woman who's been shot and stabbed, and the man would only die because the sword went through her into him and then out of him aswell makes me think
#3
Final score:
67points
CraftyPandaActor 7 years ago
This is exactly how I feel. You have that lump in your throat and tears that stream down your face, each one is like a blade drawing a line into your skin.
It's not difficult to come up with ideas, what's difficult is to paint them, to have energy and such. I'm always overwhelmed by those feelings, it's like an inner storm I face. Finishing one piece usually takes 6-12 hours depending on the details.
#4
Final score:
61points
Shruti Naik 7 years ago
wow. It's as if your depression is pulling the strings on what you're allowed to speak aloud.
Nadia Bakker 7 years ago
On both speaking and defining when you should smile or not.
Load More Replies... A.R. 7 years ago
I remember once, the pastor of my church told me to "Smile more often" . He said "Christians are suppose to be happy people" I didn't agree with that at all and shortly left his church for good. If you are crying on the inside, you need to find a way to release it, not bottle it up and pretend everything is ok when it is not. How else can you find peace if you constantly hide your true feelings?
VesselTrenchBlurryface 4 years ago
my dad always says be a light and I don't know how you can do that if you are surrounded by darkness.
ELIJAH MARPEL-ZARATE 3 years ago
I feel this shows the upper hands (parent) control of the child (the character looks like a child)
#5
Final score:
58points
Chris Damphouse 5 years ago
Hi , love this !!! We are getting ready to release a song called it will pass . It’s about getting over depression . We would love to use this . Please let us know if your interested and of course cost :) @asecondlife44@gmail.com
All other artists inspire me. Just the idea that someone picked up the pen and tried to create what's in their mind. I think we are all born with our unique style, but it's not in making the eyes bigger or the nose smaller. It's about the personality in your lines and the way you color, so it's just a matter of time - after you master copying, you'll start to create.
#6
Final score:
51points
#7
Final score:
49points
I started my painting career just to feel better and I think my goal is to continue doing that. I hope to keep helping myself and other people through what I paint and what I say.
#8
Final score:
48points
Christal Linstrom 7 years ago
I have drawn things like this before only with the entire body and more words, Thank You for showing me I'm not alone. I have extremely bad depression and can't find my way out. Thank You.
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago (edited)
There are so many of us like this... struggling day after endless day. I don't know if it helps at all, but you really aren't alone. Even though it feels like it. Also, it would be great if you felt like sharing your art, somehow. Because I guarantee it will resonate with someone else, just like this art moved you.
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Julie C Rose 4 years ago
For what it’s worth, I misread it as “H9LY”, which I then interpreted as “HOLY”.
8Yorkies-and-63cats 3 years ago
She didn't write this on her face; a narcissistic parent, or a bully did, slowly, over time. It is an external criticism that obliterates her own face and replaces it with this awful word, that someone else wrote and that has nothing to do with her. I hope she is still intact underneath.
#9
Final score:
45points
#10
Final score:
45points
#11
Final score:
43points
Bettye McKee 4 years ago
And the attention to detail is amazing. This artist has real talent.
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#12
Final score:
41points
#13
Final score:
41points
8Yorkies-and-63cats 3 years ago (edited)
The blood from her wound gave birth to a rose. This is magical!
#14
Final score:
39points
Katie 4 years ago
Me right now, at school, not even my closest friends noitce
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Final score:
36points
PyroarRanger 7 years ago
Music is powerful. Even when it gets hard, it is the one thing that will always be there for you, no matter what.
Joe Tilden 7 years ago
“Isabelle? HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU, NO PLAYING ON THE ROOF!
#16
Final score:
34points
#17
Final score:
34points
#18
Final score:
32points
Terd Fergison 4 years ago
This a great one. I love the message. The muslim religion is brutally oppressive to women.
#19
Final score:
32points
FreyaShips 4 years ago
every rose has many thorns. in life there are more thorns than roses, but life is what you make of it.
#20
Final score:
31points
#21
Final score:
27points
Jenna Ruiz 7 years ago
I think this are all beautiful because you are expressing yourself and they are all really good
#22
Final score:
26points
#23
Final score:
22points
FreyaShips 4 years ago
The child is trying to fly away from their cancer but can never get fully away
#24
Final score:
15points
Omnisexual elephant 4 years ago
I belive that I have depression and I just feel like I'm in someone else's life and I don't belong in this body or universe
Aleah Dowell 3 years ago
this is my favorite one yet its beautiful and it reminds me of the pain i'm in like how i just want 2 cry but i have 2 smile
#25
Final score:
14points
#26
Final score:
14points
ThEboRedEsTpANdA 4 years ago
This reminds me of the many cutting-outs-of-ID-chips in the Lunar Chronicles (the id chips are in the wrists)
#27
Final score:
14points
#28
Final score:
13points
#30
Final score:
11points
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#35
Final score:
3points
#36
Final score:
3points
ShriSha Kamboj 4 years ago
I find this piece really relatable......I am interpreting it as the burden of others judgment.....it is just a piece of unwanted load that v carry and find it very difficult to get rid off
#38
Final score:
3points
ShriSha Kamboj 4 years ago
we create our own reality....v shud never let anyone else make us believe otherwise
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A.R. 7 years ago
I hope more people will be able to view your work. These are truly what art is meant to do and that is to touch each of us in our own way, to find meaning in each painting and know that we are not alone. It's a sharing of the heart and soul that needs no words to communicate. I hope I expressed myself so others understand what I am trying to say. It's so hard to express the feelings these paintings inspire me with.
Cambell D'Aloise 7 years ago
Hi, I also have depression..I’m not a very good artist..how can I do this? I love drawing but I can’t make anything turn out right, and I just get even more sad if I’m trying to make myself feel better. I have anxiety and depression, so please tell me what I can do.
Alia G. 7 years ago
I don’t really know if I can help very much, but I would say you should draw whatever and however you want, it doesn’t have to be “good”, it should just express how you feel.
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Austin Coutinho 7 years ago
Thank you for these touching artwork. As someone who has survived through depression I hope your recovery continues steadily.
eat~the~universe~fam 3 years ago
I really wish I could draw like this. Excellent shading, blending, and overall really amazing art style! I can see just how much effort you put into learning and nurturing that raw but amazing talent into a skill that can blow people away with it’s expressiveness, it’s attention to detail, and it’s incredible focus on light to dark values, form, blending, and colors, combining it all to create pieces like this that touch people to the very core of their soul. Amazing work, and I hope that you keep drawing because you are amazing at it.
A.R. 7 years ago
I hope more people will be able to view your work. These are truly what art is meant to do and that is to touch each of us in our own way, to find meaning in each painting and know that we are not alone. It's a sharing of the heart and soul that needs no words to communicate. I hope I expressed myself so others understand what I am trying to say. It's so hard to express the feelings these paintings inspire me with.
Cambell D'Aloise 7 years ago
Hi, I also have depression..I’m not a very good artist..how can I do this? I love drawing but I can’t make anything turn out right, and I just get even more sad if I’m trying to make myself feel better. I have anxiety and depression, so please tell me what I can do.
Alia G. 7 years ago
I don’t really know if I can help very much, but I would say you should draw whatever and however you want, it doesn’t have to be “good”, it should just express how you feel.
Load More Replies... Austin Coutinho 7 years ago
Thank you for these touching artwork. As someone who has survived through depression I hope your recovery continues steadily.
eat~the~universe~fam 3 years ago
I really wish I could draw like this. Excellent shading, blending, and overall really amazing art style! I can see just how much effort you put into learning and nurturing that raw but amazing talent into a skill that can blow people away with it’s expressiveness, it’s attention to detail, and it’s incredible focus on light to dark values, form, blending, and colors, combining it all to create pieces like this that touch people to the very core of their soul. Amazing work, and I hope that you keep drawing because you are amazing at it.
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