Saturday, March 1, 2014

Awareness Poster Sketches - Eating Disorder Awareness

Though National Eating Disorder Awareness Week actually ends today, it made me think about making an eating disorder awareness poster.  Originally, I was planning to do my poster on animal rights and rescues, but after looking over some other awareness posters, I got this new idea.  Eating disorders, unfortunately, hit very close to home in my life and I think that's why I thought I'd have some insight to share in portraying it through a poster.


Some of the writing may be a little hard to read, but I'll explain it here.

The image is meant to be of a family at dinner with a father, mother, son and daughter.  On the table are plates in front of everyone and multiple bowls of food to be served like salad, mashed potatoes, peas, meat and whatnot.  Everyone has food on their plate except the daughter.  Additionally, there are thought bubbles above everyone's heads.  For everyone but the daughter, I wanted to have foods they like in the shape of a heart (like the image below) in the thought bubble to show how they are all thinking about how much they enjoy the food they are about to eat: 

In the daughter's thought bubble, I want the image to be of a scale.  It's hard to see in my sketch, but I'd like to put something like a closed zipper over where her mouth would be.  I'd also like her dressed in a big, baggy sweatshirt like she's trying to hide her body.  This is meant to show that she's trying to stop herself from partaking in the meal everyone else is enjoying because all she can think about are the pounds she could gain from eating it.

The caption I have now, but may play with reads, "Because the only weight on your mind should be what course to start with."  This is meant to be the main message but also a play on "weight."  She has the physical pounds kind of weight on her mind already, but I'd also be using a different meaning of "weight" as in having something "weigh on your mind."  The purpose of the message is that we should all be able to love and enjoy food responsibly without being burdened by thoughts of getting "fat."  At the bottom of the image, I'd like the NEDA name and information.

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