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Depression, Anti-Depressants & Alternative Medicine

Depression, Anti-Depressants & Alternative Medicine
Illustrative project on the effects of anti-depressants and alternative medicine. Advice on anti-depressants poster design for alternativementalhealth.com. Illustrated using pencil and photoshop.
The Mask Of Medicine.
Illustration depicting the mask effects anti-depressants can have, the coloured carnival masks and tablet milkshake cups representing a coloured view with the monochrome people showing the potential reality and the black and white world of suffering with depression. Illustration created using pencil, coloured pencil, marbling ink and photoshop.
Herbal Medicine
A trio of editorial illustrations for a systematic review on herbal medicine in the treatment of a range of psychiatric disorders including Bipolar, Obsessive-Compulsive disorders, Seasonal Affective, Phobias and Psychotic disorders as well as Anxiety and Depression.
Illustrations created using graphite, coloured pencil, fine liner, watercolour and photoshop.
The first of the triptych shows Roseroot, Saffron and St John's Wort for the help of Depression.
Passionflower, Skullcap and Sour Date for the potential aid of Anxiety.
Kava for the potential treatment towards phobia, panic and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Editorial
Editorial illustration for an online article about the pros and cons of anti-depressants. This illustration highlights the issue that anti-depressants can often take 4 to 6 weeks to begin to take affect, shown by the blue tablet on the hand reaching out of the cuckoo clock while a woman waits.
Illustration drawn with graphite and a coloured pencil pill, put together using photoshop.
Sick Of Tablets

Illustration created using graphite, coloured pencil and photoshop.
Depression, Anti-Depressants & Alternative Medicine
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Depression, Anti-Depressants & Alternative Medicine

Illustrations for a project looking at mental health, the treatments of depression, including the effects and issues surrounding anti-depressants Read More

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