#obesophobia

📢 HỘI CHỨNG ÁM ẢNH CÂN NẶNG – KHI NỖI SỢ TĂNG CÂN TRỞ THÀNH CỰC ĐOAN! ⚠️ 😨 Bạn có thường xuyên lo lắng quá mức về cân nặng dù cơ thể mình vẫn bình thường? 🥗 Bạn có hay nhịn ăn, tập luyện quá sức chỉ để giữ dáng? 📉 Bạn có cảm thấy tội lỗi khi ăn một chút đồ ăn ngoài kế hoạch?

‼️ Đây có thể là dấu hiệu của hội chứng ám ảnh cân nặng (Obesophobia), một rối loạn tâm lý khiến nhiều người – đặc biệt là các bé gái tuổi dậy thì – rơi vào vòng xoáy ám ảnh về vóc dáng! 😞

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1. The envelope

2. The postcards

Pink and blue

Poly art

3. The poster 

I made this postcard using the same polygon art technique as in the one with roses. I downloaded a photo of a women with very defined facial bones and with lots of highlights and shadows in it. I then changed the hue/saturation values and adjusted brightness and contrast to end up with a blue/purple photo. I did so because I wanted my final design to look like the person’s silhouette is made out of shattered glass.

This is what it looked like once I finished making the polygonal shapes. I purposely didn’t do the woman’s face - I just didn’t need it and it would be a waste of time. I tried to place the polygons in such way that they look almost 3D.

I wrote “OUR MINDS DISTORT OUR BODIES” on a piece of paper, crumpled it and took a photo of it.

I then adjusted the brightness and contrast values, cut out the shape that I liked and placed it into the file with the woman on a new layer.

Once I’ve finished that, I added some triangles that would imitate the pieces of broken glass 

I then added some more colours to the background and experimented with the blending options. I really like how it turned out. It’s definitely my favourite design from the project. 

Apart from it looking beautiful, it has a very important meaning. Most of my designs were touching the subject of eating disorders. This one however is about both eating disorders and mental problems which are just as important part of the problem of obesophobia. This postcard is about body dysmorphia which is not spoken commonly about but is a very common disease that can lead to even more serious mental illnesses. A person touched by body dysmorphia doesn’t know what they look like because their mind makes their body image change even as frequently as a few times every day. As a result, an ill person doesn’t perceive their own body as beautiful and hyperbolise all of the little imperfections they have got.

Once I’ve finished 3 of my postcards and was scrolling through pinterest, I found a style that I immediately fell in love with - poly art. Poly art is a style that incorporates very simple and angular shapes that, when looking at them from a distance, don’t look like polygons anymore. I found it really fascinating and wanted to try it out and use in my project. Here are some of the illustration that I was inspired by. 

For my third postcard I wanted to use some typography to show that even though photo editing and illustration are my strengths, I am versatile and can work with type just as well.

Because my other designs were very simple and minimalistic, I wanted this one to match them. I used a scan of the text that I printed out at college. I was moving the print while it was being scanned to distort my type. I only used one of the scans that I’ve made. I especially like this one because it distorted the SO part of the word OBESOPHOBIA. It subtly points out that the subject of obesophobia is very often not taken seriously.

I put this scan into a .psd file, thresholded it and changed the colour of type. I also added shadow to make the type stand out.

I decided to add some wavy lines in the backgound to make it look more interesting. I pasted the scan one more time into the document and used the Wave tool to create the perfectly imperfect lines that I was going for. 

The screenshots below are not from my final design that I used but they show exactly how I used the Wave generator. 

I added even more distorted lines using the Shear tool an really just experimenting with it. I set my the finished version of the layer to the Darken blending mode.

I added some more colour to the background using the Gaussian Blur technique shown in my other posts and this is my final outcome and set the layer’s blending mode to exclusion. This is my final outcome

I wanted this postcard to be all about the health complications that come with having a severe eating disorder. Apart from just being underfed, they might cause some serious health problems that can eventually kill the ill person. Eating disorders have a huge impact on all of our organs even if they are not a part of our digestive system.

I made a “collage” using two illustrations found on the internet and traced over them in Illustrator using the pen tool. I traced over every single organ and then painted them different shades of blue to be able to actually distinguish one organ from another using the Live Paint Bucket Tool.

I copied and pasted it into a new .psd file. I then added shadow (Drop Shadow) and a background in the same colour as the body. The simplicity of the illustration has let me to have some fun and experiment a bit more doing the background,

I used one of my tried and trusted techniques which was sample a blue colour from my illustration and to draw awkward shapes using the brush tool in Photoshop to later Gaussian blur them and manoeuvre in such way to achieve the desired result.

Since the background looked a little empty, I decided to add some more detail into it. I created a path in Illustrator, copied it several times and set the stroke profile of it to Width Profile 1. This way, simple lines could mimic hair. One of the most common “side effects” of having an eating disorder is extreme hair loss which happens to almost everyone who is not eating enough. I really wanted to incorporate a motif of hair in one of my designs and the one regarding health just seemed to me like the perfect one.

I set the hair’s blending mode to Luminosity because I like the way it looks as if it’s shiny just like real human hair.

People who suffer from obesophobia often don’t give their bodies the right nutrients they need in order to grow and stay healthy. One of the classic tricks explained in most of the pro ana content is drinking a lot of zero calorie liquids. That is drinking a lot of water and the most importantly - energy drinks and fizzy drinks. If we put a lot of liquid into ur bodies, it gives us the illusion of being full. Drinks such as coke zero are even more welcome - because they are sweet, they stimulate the person’s taste buds and are just a better experience than drinking water. Because of that, it’s very common that they go days without eating (or eating minimal amounts of food) and substitute their meals with said zero calorie drinks. They are one of the things that “scream” the words “eating disorder” to me but for a person who has never experienced a serious eating disorder or hasn’t had a close one suffer from it, drinking zero kcal drinks is normal and would never be associated with a mental illness. Because one of my project goals was to raise awareness, I decided to incorporate it within my design.

The first step was to draw a can of drink in Illustrator. Once I had done that, I copied and pasted it into an A5 Photoshop document. I chose the background to be pink and the illustration to be greenish because I associate green with something bad, poisonous and possibly hazardous for your health.

The next step was to draw the rose. I am not the best at drawing so it didn’t really look like a rose and more like a triangle made with wiggly lines.

I didn’t want to be redrawing my illustration because I was not enjoying doing it, so I added more detail into it. I have drawn the outlines of a rose and a copy of the can this time using only the outlines of it as well.

I still wanted to keep my postcard, however meaningful, as clean and minimalistic as possible. I added shadow to make the can look as if it’s on top of a table.

Double click the layer -> Drop Shadow -> right click the drop shadow from the layers menu and choose Create Layer -> move around and manipulate the shadow layer by first pressing ctrl + t and then by dragging the handles while holding the ctrl key until you achieve the effect that you are going for.

I added text to my work (I used the same font as in my poster) and petals that I had drawn in the background (blending mode set to Linear Dodge). They symbolise that even though a person who is malnutritioned will not admit it and looks fine at a first glance, is literally slowly dying. 

To top it all, I added an illustration of barbed wire that I found on iStock to my design. It represents the love people have for their eating disorders, how protective they are over them and that they can’t go away as easily as everyone would want them to.

I first pasted the scan and lowered the layer’s opacity, inverted it and set the layer’s blending mode to Difference.

I repeated the above steps on another layer with the scan but this time I didn’t invert it. I liked the way it looked when I overlapped the layers because I wanted to use this as a background and because the colour s are so dark and muted, they wouldn’t be distracting for someone looking at the poster.

I then put another layer with the scan on top of the previous ones. I placed it in such way that the left edge of the scan was aligned with the centre of the document. I then created a layer mask and erased it into a shape that I liked using a soft brush in black. This really framed the background and looks almost like a subtle light flare which is the look I was going for.

I added the hands that I had drawn earlier but they were invisible on such a dark background so I added a new layer filled with a light colour (similar to a typical Caucasian person’s skin), created a layer mask and . I like how the light colour really contrasts with the dark background.

Even though I already liked my design, I felt like it was too blunt. I decided to add more details in order to make it look more engaging and intriguing. I really wanted to keep one colour theme within this piece so I used the eyedropper tool, made two thick shapes on the edges of the document and used Gaussian Blur. I then put it below the layer with the hand fill set the blending mode to Color Burn. It’s very important for me that every part of all of my pieces is well thought-out. I believe that it is the key to making the design look to look consistent.

To balance all of the dark tones, I decided to brighten up the bottom of my poster just a little bit more. That’s why I added yet another layer of the scanned page, put a mask on it and erased most of it with a black brush until I was happy with the shape that I got. I then changed the blending mode to Overlay. I really like the way it looks because it makes the pink tape look like there’s blood on it. It was not intentional, however it was a very happy accident that gives a lot of room for interpretation for a person that is looking at my poster

I also added the title of my project into it. I used the Hackney font because I liked how simple the shapes of the letters are, yet there are some transparent strokes on them that give the text a lot of texture. I used a colour that I sampled from the hands’ fill and lowered the colour’s value a little, then I changed the blending mode to Linear Light.