According to several studies, art is a great medium for someone to release their emotion. Also, some psychiatrists use art to diagnose if their patient is experiencing some kind of mental health problem; trauma for example.
Before we proceed, let's remember that art has different forms; painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, music, dance, theater, photography, and films. Arts can be divided into two; traditional and modern art. Traditional art is created using traditional mediums (brushes, pencils, etc.). There are old mediums that have been used for a long time. Technology is central to digital art. Artists produce multimedia works using input machines such as tablet computers.
I am fond of both traditional and digital arts. Every time I see art exhibitions in museums and social media, I can feel that it portrays or telling something. Emotion? Connection? I don't know exactly but they always mesmerize me.
These past few days, I was on the verge of a mental and emotional breakdown. I'm just distracting myself with other things so it will not progress. To lessen the stuff that may trigger this, I thought of uninstalling my social media sites, including my Telegram. I thought of disconnecting myself from the world just to recharge; mental health matters. Aside from that, I decided to finish the series I am watching on Netflix; ignoring all the inquiries of my classmates and piling school works. I'm also skipping my online classes just to sleep and rest. That is not a good thing to do tho but I can't help to do it because this is also the cause why I am unstable.
I continue doing those activities for consecutive days but I didn't feel better. This is where I realized that these are just 'band-aid' solutions and I must think of a more effective way to combat the monster in me.
Exactly while browsing some productivity apps on the play store, Adobe illustrator caught my attention. I am not a noob in using this editing software as I was using this back then when modifying my pictures. I just deleted it because of a smartphone storage issue - insufficient memory.
I immediately downloaded it. Upon opening the app, there's no major change in the user interface. The app function the same I first used it. Because of this, I didn't have a hard time using the app. However, the only problem I encountered is I don't know what to draw. I eventually got tired of thinking about what I will draw and closed the app.
Before sleeping that night, my brain suddenly became overdramatic. He automatically reminds me of all my pending responsibility, what will happen if I don't do them, and other shitty stuff that makes me overthink. I wrote a nonsense article about the thoughts encircling my mind that night. Here's the article if you are interested to read it.
I shared all the thoughts encircling in my head that night -it helped a bit to alleviate the overthinking. This is also the moment I open my Adobe Illustrator to sketch and release my emotion. I just let my fingers move their own. I let my emotion dictate what will my hands draw.
After several minutes, this is what I created.
After sketching on Adobe Illustrator, I downloaded another app to manipulate its appearance.
Every time I observe this image, it reminds me of all of the heavy feelings I felt that night. I don't know if you can feel the same way but I am 100% sure that this art is created by pure emotions.
I decided to mint this art of mine and sell it at juungle.net. But yesterday, upon inviting my friend to join the said market platform, I gave this NFT as a welcome gift to him.
I created this the day after tomorrow after sketching Demodimentional. It portrays how I am relieved to stress upon channeling my emotion to different mediums.
I also listed it on juungle.net and someone bought it for 0.051 BCH or about $4.
I created this when someone special to me asked if I am okay. This person is special to me. I can't tell my feelings towards her because I am scared that it may wreck our current friendship. This is why I sketched another one to release my frustration.
I also listed it on juungle.net and someone bought it for 0.01111 BCH or $8.78 in the current BCH value.
Conclusion:
Art helped me to lift myself. I understand now how this medium can greatly help anyone in their mental state. Currently, I don't have a plan on creating another set of 'emotional art' as I don't feel any overwhelming emotion right now. Maybe soon if things go hard? Who knows? hahaha
Note: At last! I finished writing this article after several days of being inactive. Your articles are flooding my notification. I have a lot to read. Ang sipag nyo hahaha. Keep it up and God bless!
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People have become rich over very emotional art of various styles. ;D
What was the second app you used to change the appearance?