Body Shame

Hello everyone,

this time I want to confront you with a more serious piece, a topic that not only I can relate to but that many people actually may or may not carry deeply in their hearts, worrying about from time to time if not permanently: Body Shame.

*sigh* Disliking your own body, whether it'd be because you find yourself too tall, small, thick, thin, too unproportioned or just whatever reason there might be, it's an awful condition to begin with. In fact, media does influence us with (role) models and the ideal image of a body, no matter the gender. Especially women seem to suffer from body shame because of that, I myself can relate to that.

Without wanting to be too negative about it, I am not 100% happy with my body and although I'm proud of what I've accomplished over the past 2 years (I lost 27 kg, which makes about 60 lbs), there are many things I'd like to change from my overall shape to getting rid off stretch marks and so on and so forth. You know the deal. Means I can understand those who feel put under pressure from others or media for their visual appearance. Yet again, I want to point out that not only the looks of someone count, so does the character/personality and that is for sure something can make beautiful, so don't be afraid of showing how and who you are. You are beautiful the way you are and as long as you treat yourself just fine, it'll be ok and stay that way. No doubts about that.

It took me quite a while of depressing setbacks etc. to finally more or less accept myself the way I am, I can even say "I'm pretty" from time to time and it helps the self confidence. Perfection is not the thing you should be going for since there is no such thing. Everyone likes something else, while some prefer skinny girls with long hair, others may prefer some curves to their girl and a short, flippy haircut, who knows? In the end, it's all up to you and how you want to feel about yourself.

This drawing just came to my mind out of nowhere, it just was there and I am pretty proud of it, even if it's simple. I wanted to keep the focus on the face by adding neccessary details while the tears forming the silhouette of her body take most part of this image and stand against it as a contrast, same about the background colour and the blue tones I used for the figure.

I think this is an open topic that we could write stories about. I just want to leave this here and really hope you like the artwork itself.

Time: Around 1 Hour and 15 Minutes