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Emotional drawings thread (HEAVY TRIGGER WARNING: READ FIRST)
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Not going to post a drawing straight away because I want anyone looking to see what I've written here first, before seeing any drawings.
I'm going to post some of my recent drawings here, a comment at a time, and you're welcome to add some of your own.
I make these drawings as a way to pour out the emotion inside of me, so many of them are going to touch on sensitive, triggering subjects, This is why I've put a heavy trigger warning on the start. I have an unfortunate (Or fortunate I suppose. Depends how you look at it) talent, which allows me to put a large amount of my own emotions into drawings. While this is a good thing for keeping my own emotions at bay, some of my drawings have a tendency to stir a lot of thoughts and feelings in other people. It's like I'm sharing my emotions with people; and that worries me sometimes because I tend to feel like I have so much of the stuff that it'll overpower others
Things I draw will touch on both subjects I've experienced myself, and subjects I've witnessed others experience. The two drawings I have so far touch on Eating disorders and Depression respectively. There's a chance I'll touch on self-harm, mental health, depression, suicide, behavioural disorders, etc etc as I post more, so consider yourself severely warned. Some of these images will have a pretty high trigger risk, so please don't go any further if you think what I'm drawing will hurt you. I don't want to hurt you
I'll put the necessary trigger warnings on each comment anyway, and if I can get the spoiler option to work (I've had trouble with it in the past) Then I'll use that too.
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The trigger warnings on this thread will vary in intensity by each comment. Therefore I'll be adding a RAG (Red/Amber/Green) rating to each image, to better explain the intensity of what you're going to see.
Red: High trigger chance. This includes drawings that are about highly sensitive subjects, such as suicide or self-harm, and may explicitly show an aspect of it.
Amber: Moderate trigger chance. This will include drawings about highly sensitive subjects but with little detail, or less sensitive subjects with a lot of detail.
Green: Low trigger chance. This is for drawings that still have a chance of triggering, but are much less likely to do so than Amber or Red. These drawings are usually about subjects that are less sensitive than others, but still can trigger. This could include eating disorders, isolation, general sadness, etc.
No warning: The drawing is generally safe to view, because it is about a general subject that is too vague to trigger.
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I'm going to post some of my recent drawings here, a comment at a time, and you're welcome to add some of your own.
I make these drawings as a way to pour out the emotion inside of me, so many of them are going to touch on sensitive, triggering subjects, This is why I've put a heavy trigger warning on the start. I have an unfortunate (Or fortunate I suppose. Depends how you look at it) talent, which allows me to put a large amount of my own emotions into drawings. While this is a good thing for keeping my own emotions at bay, some of my drawings have a tendency to stir a lot of thoughts and feelings in other people. It's like I'm sharing my emotions with people; and that worries me sometimes because I tend to feel like I have so much of the stuff that it'll overpower others
Things I draw will touch on both subjects I've experienced myself, and subjects I've witnessed others experience. The two drawings I have so far touch on Eating disorders and Depression respectively. There's a chance I'll touch on self-harm, mental health, depression, suicide, behavioural disorders, etc etc as I post more, so consider yourself severely warned. Some of these images will have a pretty high trigger risk, so please don't go any further if you think what I'm drawing will hurt you. I don't want to hurt you
I'll put the necessary trigger warnings on each comment anyway, and if I can get the spoiler option to work (I've had trouble with it in the past) Then I'll use that too.
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The trigger warnings on this thread will vary in intensity by each comment. Therefore I'll be adding a RAG (Red/Amber/Green) rating to each image, to better explain the intensity of what you're going to see.
Red: High trigger chance. This includes drawings that are about highly sensitive subjects, such as suicide or self-harm, and may explicitly show an aspect of it.
Amber: Moderate trigger chance. This will include drawings about highly sensitive subjects but with little detail, or less sensitive subjects with a lot of detail.
Green: Low trigger chance. This is for drawings that still have a chance of triggering, but are much less likely to do so than Amber or Red. These drawings are usually about subjects that are less sensitive than others, but still can trigger. This could include eating disorders, isolation, general sadness, etc.
No warning: The drawing is generally safe to view, because it is about a general subject that is too vague to trigger.
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Funny story, I was originally intending to draw an anime character when I drew this. I made a really simple design, gave up and started scribbling on it just 'cause. And then i saw potential in it and came up with this. It's also the fastest drawing I've ever done and not trashed; taking only 15 minutes total.
Trigger Intensity: Green
But Look forward to seein others:). Totally want to draw something else myself but lacking motivation and concentration but will post if i do
Thank you also for the compliment. I don't often receive compliments when I show people in person because my younger sister outshines my drawings by miles lol
As for the methods thing, there are some drawing ideas I have that wouldn't specifically show the methods for self harm, but that concept would be insinuated.
When I say concepts:
Or an idea I'm going to draw in a bit, about a person on a computer, telling someone that they don't deserve to die, shouldn't commit etc, but they would have antidepressant pills, or a lot of alcohol, or something like that that would insinuate that they aren't practicing what they preach.
^Of course that one is a bit more graphic, so I'll have to think on how to work it. But you get the idea.
[tweaked by moderator]
Naturally I'm going to be adding spoilers and trigger warnings where they're needed (Like here^), and explicitly stating what is going to be found on the image, so it's really up to the person looking to judge whether or not they should see it. I'm considering adding a RAG rating on each trigger, so that drawings with a higher trigger chance would be classed as red, and would explain to people more than just "Trigger warning"
In fact I'm going to ask staff to edit a bit about it onto the bottom of the thread now, so keep an eye out lol
Glad you're looking forwards to more drawings though. It's quite inspiring to know that they're being enjoyed.
I rarely have the motivation or concentration to draw either. So when I do, I end up getting 3 or 4 drawings done in a day usually