Surreal Illustrations of Mental Illnesses for Inktober

Every year thousands of artists take part in Inktober, where every day in October you draw something. Artist, Shawn Coss, decided to change it up and focus his drawings on various mental illnesses which has been getting tons of hits on Bored Panda.

For more information and images, jump over to his Facebook page here.

Shining Light on Depression: An Often Dismissed Struggle Any Creative Can Face

Shining Light on Depression: An Often Dismissed Struggle Any Creative Can Face

When I approached my good friend, Jaleel King, about writing a piece on him for Fstoppers, which I was a staff writer for, it wasn't until we met and started chatting about everything that I realized my original direction of just a highlight piece wasn't enough. We needed to talk about the struggle he was experiencing with depression.