How to Face Your Fears Accordion Book
This page focuses on another project I made at Rutgers: the accordion book How to Face Your Fears. The book was created for people who struggle with anxiety and insecurity. This project was inspired by my own experiences with those emotions during a time when I was still trying to figure out my own identity. I made this to explain my advice on how to deal with these emotions and gain more confidence.
The accordion book has a total of ten steps for combatting anxiety. Each step contains a brief description that goes further into detail. I then decided to add the weather as a background to visualize the process of fighting anxiety. For example, the first page has a thunderstorm sky to symbolize how insecure you are at the start. The sky becomes clear and brighter as you progress to showcase your growing confidence. In the last step, the sky is clear, and the sun rises behind the clouds to show that you completed your process of gaining confidence.
I illustrated the sun and the skies using Adobe Illustrator. I also used it to make lightning and sunrays for some pages. For the clouds, I used the paintbrush tool in Photoshop to add more depth and make them appear realistic. I had to change the coloring of the text as I progressed to make them appear more clearly. This project was completed in December 2017.