Chances are, some of your friends or relatives are coping with depression. Sometimes, the best start in helping the suffering person is stepping into their shoes for a moment. Depression symptoms have no face. But, understanding these two things: what does depression feel like and how undermining it is, can show the guidelines for help.
However, not everyone is gifted with such great empathy. That’s why we are here! The compilation of depression drawings that we have gathered below might give you a glimpse of what this mental illness feels like.
What is Depression Drawing?
Depression drawing is the artistic expression of people suffering from depression. When such individuals express themselves through depression drawings, it can help them cope with their emotions and improve their mental health.
The artists behind these gloomy drawings have first-hand experience dealing with mental illnesses, and their drawings illustrate it in a very relatable way. From monsters living in your head to feelings of complete loneliness, depression is way more debilitating than one might think.
Compilation of Depression Art with Deep Meanings
Scroll down for these depression artworks by various artists and see how they feel or imagine this mental illness.
Living with depression is hard, but it is treatable, so if you think that you might be suffering from it or spot the first depression symptoms with your relative or a friend, don’t ignore it. Get help. The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 and provides free, anonymous, and confidential support. If you or someone you know needs urgent treatment for depression, don’t hesitate to reach out. Call 988 or dial the helpline at 1-800-662-4357, or visit their official website to chat with Lifeline.
#1 Brain Sick
Image source: Robert Carter
#2 Mind Devour
The painting describes a person with mental problems such as schizophrenia, insanity, depression, or other mental health problems. His endless screaming makes his own mind eat him up.
I have periods in my life where I feel like this. I wanted to make an illustration of my thoughts and my pain within.
Image source: Sebmaestro
#3 Depression
Image source: Ajgiel
#4 Colorful Depression
Image source: artedelle
#5 Depression Drawings
Image source: Spagheth
#6 Major Depressive Disorder
Image source: Shawn Coss
#7 Depression Artwork
#8 Teen Depression
Image source: carts
#9 Falling
A figure sketch from “Falling” a unique art project I worked on from 2010-2014 about my experience with depression.
Image source: claralieu
#10 Broken Soul
Image source: John Holcroft
#11 My Depression Looks Like This
On my 27th birthday my depression was finally just too fucking much. After many years of silently treating the severe recurrent episodes of my major depressive disorder, I gave up. I was not well and I needed to take the time to deal with how bad it had truly gotten. So I basically “came out” as the big faker depression had been telling me I was… no more masks,
Image source: madNbrooklyn
#12 My Demons
Image source: Zary
#13 Can’t Escape
Image source: Unknown
#14 Fading Into Depression
Image source: KuleshovEvgeniy
#15 Falling Into Depression
Image source: ZarinaSitumorang
#16 Empty
Image source: Sekhmet17
#17 Falling Sketch No. 55
This depression in art project is a visualization of personal experience with depression and anxiety. The condition brought on frequent episodes where I felt emotionally and physically out of control. Unable to “release” myself from these episodes, I waited for the physical limitations of my body to end them. Recounting the affected years, I realize how accustomed I became to depression’s influence; many emotions and feelings belonged to it and not my own personality. After an extended, untreated struggle, a diagnosis brought relief, and the process of unearthing myself from the disease began.
Image source: Clara Lieu
#18 Evanesce
#19 Cancer Of The Mind
Depression is like a cancer of the mind.
Image source: Krains
#20 Black Dog
Image source: Lenka Simeckova
#21 Monster Inside The Head
Monsters don’t live under your bed, they live inside your head.
Image source: Michelle114
#22 Drowning In Depression
Image source: Grimmshadow88
#23 Good Bye Depression
Image source: KlarEm
#24 Hopelessness
Image source: Steven H
#25 Art About Depression
This dark drawing was inspired by depression and the effect it has on people, its a subject that’s very close to my heart and i feel very passionate about it. So I created this image almost to try and explain depression to someone who’s never experienced it or can not understand the effects it has on people.
Image source: KateR31
#26 Broken And Alone
Someone somewhere feels less alone when finding that they can relate to something. Mental illness can feel extremely isolating.
Image source: JenniferHealy
#27 Again Insomnia
Really troublesome. My mind can’t settle. Sometimes it end up with… twisted dream. I feel so depressed and sad every time I wake up, especially when everyone has gone.
Image source: N-Maulina
#28 Art During A Time Of Depression
Image source: herpaderps
#29 November
Image source: Marcin Jakubowski
#30 She’s Not Sad. She Feels Empty
#31 Parasite
Image source: Riftress
#32 Dissociation Depression Drawing
#33 Burden
Image source: Byakuya1619
#34 The Other Bedroom
Image source: AudreyBenjaminsen
#35 Dark Isolation
Image source: bottleofsunshine13
#36 Red Art Print
Image source: Siiri V.
#37 Sickness
I feel sad and cold. But happy, because I have friends. So I feel guilty that I’m sad.
Image source: Mayka94
#38 What Does Depression Feel Like…
Image source: Swiniaki
#39 I Decided To Give Art Therapy A Go To Work Through Some Stuff – This Is My Interpretation Of Depression, Anxiety And Depersonalisation
#40 Crumbling Into Pieces
Image source: justcallmemike
#41 Brain Fog
Image source: Steven H
#42 Morning Kiss From Your Depression
Image source: beiibis
#43 A Mind War
Image source: ChaosCake
#44 Trapped
Image source: Mazzoldi
#45 Dystopia
Image source: Sidiropoulos Ioannis
#46 No Peace From The Demons
Image source: MattBarley
#47 Depression Self-portrait
Image source: CountryRoads8
#48 Depression Is Real
Image source: xfoshizzlexx
#49 Old Man In Sorrow
Image source: Vincent van Gogh
#50 Depressive
Image source: Isisnofret
#51 No Escape
Image source: MysteriousHylian
#52 Depression Is Terrifying
Image source: alfanarrasulli
#53 Untitled
I’m having a hard time reminding myself why I bother to keep going, I’ve suffered with depression most of my life, lost my job and my health went downhill, sitting here alone, after years of therapy and trying, I’m just feeling defeated.
Image source: captaingalactus
#54 Straight Jacket
#55 Depression Painting
“Depression” – painting by my grandmother
Image source: MattOnADinosaur
#56 I Drew A Picture Of Depression
I’ve always imagined my depression as a sort of creature that hangs around, and when it gets bad it’s trying to scoop me up. So I drew it.
Image source: imgur.com
#57 Haunted
Image source: NerySoul
#58 Depression Distorts Reality
Image source: PassionIsLife
#59 Stress, Anxiety, Depression
Image source: Johnny Golden
#60 The Monster Never Leaves
Image source: NightJinx
#61 Clouded By Dark Thoughts
My roleplay character Seth, who struggles with PTSD and depression. This is a simple illustration of what that feels like.
Image source: Kristine Harbek
#62 Feels
#63 Bi-Polar Tendencies Of A Depressed Person
This drawing was inspired by an article that talked about the bio-polar tendencies that a depression person experiences.
Image source: crazy-artist34
#64 King Of Depression
Image source: MitchGrave
#65 Broken Wings
Image source: S.Yoshiko
#66 Absence Of Hope And Happiness
This painting is meant to depict depression. The raging sea represents anger; and the dark skies and use of only blue and black, sadness. The lighthouse is barely visible in the darkness and there is no beacon, symbolizing the absence of hope and happiness.
Image source: ibanez01
#67 Consumed By The Demon: A Depression Artwork
Image source: Risata
#68 A Depression Drawing With A Contrast
Image source: Gabi Junos
#69 Theft
Image source: Margarita Georgiadis
#70 Manic Depression
Image source: Ahness
#71 Move On
Everyone of us suffered, lost loved ones, got harmed, felt betrayed, had a depression… In the end we are all human and nothing builds us better than suffering. However, to enjoy life, one must let go of the past; he must move on.. he must sew the wounds in his heart.. for only that makes us stronger, and so we see life in a different aspect.. We will easily overcome problems; we will be optimists.. The key to a bright future.. is moving on..
#72 Emptiness
Image source: Steven Herbers
#73 Dejection
Image source: Steven Herbers
#74 Aneurysm
Things haven’t been going as planned in life and as I sit and dwell on them I only drag myself back into a hole of depression and continue to bury myself within the hole with more worry and more bullshit.
Image source: ShawnCoss
#75 The Cloud Seed
Image source: Margarita Georgiadis
#76 Seeking A Way Out
Image source: Shaakku
#77 Chained To Depression
#78 When Depression Swallows You
Image source: Lenn-Rat
#79 Buried In Depression
#80 The Big Monster In Your Head
Image source: Sedki Alimam
#81 Inside
The best way to make art is not to create what people likes, or what people wants, or what people expect from you. The best way is to create whats inside your soul.
Image source: AndreySkull
#82 Damaged And Broken
Image source: AndreySkull
#83 Time And The Bell
Image source: Margarita Georgiadis
#84 Trying
Image source: clapfortalent
#85 An Endless Darkness
Image source: TheWarbler
#86 This Is What Depression Looks Like
Image source: Haridasa
#87 Depression: Tired
#88 Panic Attack
Image source: sow_ay
#89 Depression
Image source: ninykinin
#90 What’s Inside?
Image source: Nayshie
#91 Given Up
#92 Seven Gills Of Depression
Image source: RobStanley
#93 Void
Image source: Carlo Vargas
#94 Bureau Worm
This is about this convulsing urge, this deep push, that hits you from behind, like a big hammer and knocks your motivation, your ability to move, think, talk completely uncontious. sometimes, this depression is born from the work itsself, sometimes it comes from behind, sometimes, it just waits and never really hits…
Image source: gabrieldevue
#95 Spiral Depression
Image source: Nima Tayebian
#96 Colourful Depression
Image source: saiyankatara
#97 When Depression Pulls You Down
Image source: danismymuse
#98 We All Have Monsters Inside Of Us. Some Learn To Cope With Them, Others Are Brought Down
#99 Guilt
January of 2011was an intensive month-long art class dedicated to a single goal -depicting my subjective experience of depression while appreciating that it’s not unique.
I wanted to help explain the overwhelming experience to those that aren’t depressed, especially the friends and family of a patient.
Image source: Lucianomie
#100 Gloomy
Image source: lexicalsanctuary
#101 When Depression Spreads
#102 Crying For Help
Image source: blood-and-death
#103 Depression: Sorrow
#104 Drenched: An Art About Depression
#105 When Depression Is Always There
Image source: Heidiesel
#106 Depression Monster
The depression monster floats around endlessly, always covering his eyes to hide itself from the outside world. Because of this it always bumps into people or other monsters causing more distress to itself each time.
Image source: Toby Allen
#107 The Damned 2016
Image source: _asphodels_
#108 Die Depression
Image source: Piotr Kamieniarz
#109 Splattered Depression
This is the vision I see and feel when I hear the word depression.
#110 Sadness
Image source: A human with the inability to talk to other humans
#111 Living Through Depression
Been dealing with a bit of depression lately, it helps to make art to help you work some things out.
#112 Surviving Depression
Image source: ChrisPanatier
#113 Shadows: A Look At Depression
#114 Depression Beast
Depression is pretty much a big black gooey beast. Its slow moving and very quiet but never shy.
Image source: Scarlet01
#115 Art During A Time Of Depression
Image source: herpaderps
#116 Strangled
Image source: NickAndras
#117 Engulfed In Darkness
Image source: shawnsmithart
#118 A Pull Of Suffering
Image source: yaraedrees
#119 Bloodied
#120 Depression’s Mirror
Image source: blast3r
#121 Depressed To The Bones
Image source: KakashiHatake08
#122 Anger And Depression
#123 Detecting Depression
Illustration for depression and advancements in brain imaging to detect it.
Image source: Ryan Skalish
#124 Fighting The Demons
Image source: Socolateh
#125 Depressed Superheroes
Image source: lora-zombie
#126 Art During A Time Of Depression
Image source: herpaderps
#127 Suffocated And Shattered: A Depression Artwork
#128 Uncanny Depression
Image source: shannonjyl
#129 Abstract Art: Depression Explained
Image source: Jmele
#130 An Honest Depression Artwork
Depression – the personification of one of the modes in man. I do not know how else to call it.
Image source: CredoRedzia
#131 The Depression Demon
Image source: Ray-of-Afterlife
#132 Christmas Depression
Image source: jfkpaint
#133 Free Sticks (Just Break One Off)
#134 A Red Depression
Image source: Melissa Regas
#135 Starved Of Hope
Image source: Suzanne Marie LeClair
#136 The Forest Of Fear
Image source: Dyrk Wyst
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