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 SHAWN COSS's  InkTober 2016  ( https://www.facebook.com/ShawnCossArtrocities/?fref=ts )

     InkTober has brought me to an artist named Shawn Coss , what fascinates me about him is that he started doing series of mental illness for InkTober 2016 . As there are 31 days in October , he has done 31 drawings about mental illness as well . Shawn Coss owns a facebook page for his artworks. He confessed that he wants to increase the awareness on mental illness . He stated : “Was unaware that Mental Health Awareness was this month, but a fan suggested for inktober that I shine some light on mental issues of varied kinds. Here's the first 10 days so far. If you need help, don't be afraid to ask.". He has done different drawings based on various kinds of mental illness . In my opinion, his drawings on mental illness have raised awareness of people on mental illness as they let us understand more about the mental illnesses, how does it happen, what does it feel like, etc. Even though we can’t completely grasp the agony other people have to gone through for mental illness , we still can learn more about the illness and try helping people with the illness out.

Insomia

Misophonia

Dissociative Identity Disorder

There were people who did not like the idea of Shawn Coss drawing mental illness, some have made comments on is Facebook post, saying that he is making fun of the people who have mental illness and drawing them into monsters . However , there are people out there who love to see more of Shawn Coss’s artworks and even thanked him for doing Mental Illness drawings .Well, it seems to me that he is drawing the mental illness ITSELF in his artworks , not the people who suffer from mental illness. In my opinion , I believe that doing drawings about mental illness was a great idea in order to let people understand more about each other and the illnesses that harm us. I did not know that there were this many mental illnesses till I see his drawings and I have started thinking that some people may have mental illness which is less obvious to be noticed as well, or rather, it is not serious to the point where it could be noticed.Still , we humans need to be positive and healthy so that we would not get infected by the mental illnesses. 

 Shawn Coss's drawings were also discussed in this website >> http://www.demilked.com/mental-illness-disorders-illustrations-inktober-shawn-coss/   

 Pre-orders of the inktober prints and mentation books >> https://www.amnclothing.com/collections/inktober-illness-2016/products/inktober-illnesses-11x17-print
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