A weird request for Kontext, the German Psychology Journal I create comics for.
This was the brief:
a client comes to therapy because of a panic disorder. she tells that she fights with her symptoms for quite a long time and has asked herself ever since, what was wrong with her. when she told her medical doctor about her symptoms, he diagnosed a panic disorder. the client told that she was very relieved when she heard about the diagnosis because with this diagnosis she knew that her symptoms were real and that she was not mentally ill. So the diagnosis, as the signum of mental illness, served for her as proof for not being mentally ill.
So yeah, kind of tricky and at the same time straightforward. Just two people having a chat. Making that look interesting is the challenge. I'll be working with lighting, silhouettes, and a noir effect. Or at least that's the plan.
What do you think? How would you approach a brief like this?
Are you interested to see more progress shots of things I'm working on?
