Artist Takes 20 Different Drugs And Creates 20 Illustrations To Show Drug Effects
Graphic designer Brian Pollett, aka Pixel-Pusha, pushed himself to the limit by doing a new type of drug every day for twenty days and making cool drawings. “My early explorations with psychedelics and electronic music parties have inspired the Binge project,” Pollet told Bored Panda. “At this point in my life, I desire to express my drawing ideas on what I’ve learned from psychedelics, the creative process, and electronic music.” We’ve covered artists like him, who create under the influence, before here.
“Imagine the past, future, and linear time is gone,” Pollett explained to A+. “You can just focus on your existence in the present. The idea of tomorrow is laughable. The drug effects enable me to create art without concern of outsider judgment, without over analyzing my process, and intuitively enjoy creating the most honest work.”
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Day 1 — Butylone
Day 2 — G.H.B.
Day 3 — Codeine
Day 4 — T.H.C.
Day 5 — Alcohol
Day 6 — Nitrous
Day 7 — Cocaine
Day 8 — Psilocybin
Day 9 — 4-HO-MIPT
Day 10 — Poppers
Day 11 — DMT
Day 12 — Ether
Day 13 — 25I
Day 14 — MXE
Day 15 — MDMA
Day 16 — Amphetamine
Day 17 — Mescaline
Day 18 — Ketamine
Day 19 — LSD
Day 20 — Love
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Share on FacebookAny artist who tried to do graphics being drunk will probably agree with me that it's probably mainly fake. It's way to perfect. There are very advanced techniques used here and there is no way a person after drugs would make it look so neat. Check Witkacy to see what I mean. And no digital medium is an excuse, I know what I'm saying.
He would have created the art after the effects wore off, while trying to create an image that reflects the experience. For example, DMT is VERY powerful and you can't really see anything around you, or move for that matter, and Ketamine makes you very sluggish and lazy.
Load More Replies...Some people here are so literally minded! Where does he say that he made this illustration during the high itself? He's just trying to express his impression of how it affected him. These comments about "that's not possible" are so tedious. And so is the comments about how wrong or illegal it is. Don't like drugs? Then don't take them! Let everybody else do as they please.
Yeah, you're right. I thought of that possibility too, though I forgot to mention it in a previous reply to seomeone else. These might as well be drawn from memory, while sober.
Load More Replies...Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - did this about 100 years ago :)https://upload.wikim...Art_Project.jpg
looks like he drew his impressions of the feeling after the drug effect was worn off.
All art is subjective. However, of the 11 substances mentioned here with which I have experience, I can't see how these types of feelings could possibly have been engendered by the drug. Much of this presentation was dictated by the graphic artist/ designer background of the artist and not by the way the drug made him feel. None of these images exhibit any disjointedness that is many times caused by the disruption of neural pathways. But then each drug (as well as each time any gien drug is experienced) is subjective as well.
Thank you for doing ether, this is the only accurate representation i've found of that soul destroying drug that killed me at one point
I have no idea about the drugs (except that I thought Mescaline was posh cheese) but the graphics are outstanding. I guess we'd need to see the artist's work after being drug free for a while.
very good ideas i'm not sure on all the drugs, as i haven't done them all but thinking back to when i did do certain ones a few of the ideas are very fitting
illegal is a title created by humans, like the law, like books that sprung religions... you are all addicted to water , air, salts and glucose ... pointing out substances as evil or illegal is just like pork to jews... once , before refrigeration , pork was so dangerous that, hebrew law made it forbidden ... a logic response to what time and place this had sense... all permission slips...
Does that mean that Jews and Muslims can eat pork now that they can buy fridges?
Load More Replies...definitely fake, and useless to use the same source images/portraits/bills playing all with stereotype psychedelic effects when most of these drugs are not that visually directed but by meanings. On half on this, you would have quickly taken another direction just by resistance to the other cliche, and I know what I am talking about, as an artist & a common drug user without being a junkie. It's just what we call "a bored boring guy trying to make the buzz on the internet"
Let's hope, if he was high, that he's getting help now. Stunning artwork but sad under the circumstances.
Is this suggesting that to the artist, Ketamine feels similar to Love? Since the faces are the same and only the colours change.
I recon this titels made up by the writer. The artist has more than likely just created art that symbolises each drug . No way would you be able to do this s**t while on this stuff.
I think he did these after it wore off as a way to express the trip....
Load More Replies...I want to get these printed off onto massive canvases and put them up around my house. They are BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL!
I still remember high school, when I was prescribed Accutane for hidradenitis supprativa. The biggest side effect of that was elevated sensations of general depression and social anxiety. Any and all suggestions for improvement felt like condemnation and threats, even if they weren't. The world was always dark and foggy, and I remember the proneness toward social withdrawal. Picture the default image as a collage of blues and grays and ugly greens, and a world of suspicion and judgment. The mind trapped in a metaphorical concentration camp. That's Accutane. Now I know why the thing had so many warnings about users with suicidal ideations. It had a knack for exacerbating morbid obsessions.
I was waiting for ayahausca and expected the kiss in mdma than in ketamin.... Artist might have liked kat more...
While I appreciate all kinds of art I can't jump on board with the drug titles here only the drug titles make me not like them because I think of how many Children and Youth will look at this as Glorifying life Destroying drugs... Yeah sure art pushes everything but damn really here? why not just make pedophilia look 'pretty' too. I guess only someone who has known lived and seen their family torn apart by Drug use would get this though right? I have seen so many people Utterly Destroyed that I can't wrap my head around this sort of thing...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this took a heck of a lot longer than 20 days. No way someone is hitting Meth then the very next day taking Mescaline let alone Ketamine the day after that. Not that I would know anything about these drugs *cough*. After 20 days of doing these drugs back to back I would be surprised if this guy could talk, let alone create any art without needing another week long binge of sleep and multivitamin injections. Very cool art though. They definitely represent the drugs so I don't have any doubt he actually did the drugs. Love the DMT. Nailed that one. And good god Methoxetamine? Never tried MXE personally. Heard you really need to know the dosage or face the hospital. But that picture alone has me curious for sure. That rainbow blasting through the eye out the back of the head... sheesh. I can only imagine the trip on that drug. Great job on the paintings. Would love to have these on my wall.
Interesting how Ketamine and Love are so similarity portrayed. What do you think he was trying to say with that?
Would have been interesting to see an example done 10 days later, sobor to see how bad this burned his brain.
It seems like a heap of clichés about drugs in the form of art. Excellent technique, but I would expect an influence of individual drugs on it. Drugs instead, they act only to didascalic level: cocaine / currency, acid / psychedelic colors, love (this is very rhetorical) / kiss. I do not think that the artist was under the influence of those drugs, I think more to his 'interpretation' of the above. I am confident that in this light you will be able to better appreciate the artist's work. (I apologize for my broken English).
FAKE FAKE FAKE the work is too regular , same style, same subjects, quiet pictures....;it is impossible under dope, specially so different dopes Do you think we are stupid asses and will believe you ?
I think he most likely used a specialized computer software to either develop or use a template that he could then change to express how he felt the various psychoactive drugs had effected his brain
Load More Replies...FAKE....FAKE......FAKE ..... I'm a professionnal painter, I'm 65 .in my young yearsn I took amphetamins(from my doctor as medecines), twice mescaline , once lsd, one amix oflsd and mescaline a, marijuana and H during one year, I drunk alittle too much several times.... I can say that thosepictures are fakes, because they are too much alike ......same subject, same style, just different colours .....It is impossible to do such regularjob under dope and to take so many different dopes so close from one another... stupid article
This is bull poop. Codeine had virtually mind-altering effects. Conversely, some of these drugs are so powerful that hold a brush steady enough to paint with would be nearly impossible.
He didn’t paint the pictures he designed them on a computer after the effects of the drugs wore off based on his memory
Load More Replies...I think he should have had a few days off... he would have been knackered and what about the residual effects of one drug on the next? He needed to come down for a bit..especially around day 14 onwards.. it looked heavy!
He should have had a few days off to come down off some of those drugs. I am sure there were some residual effects going on there
"QUESTION: Did you actually take all take all substances listed in the project? ANSWER: As I publically mentioned on around day 14 of the Binge, I took some, not all. Here are the substances I did NOT take for the project. -GHB, Psilocybin, Poppers, Ether, 25i, MDMA" Source: http://www.psybry.net/
"QUESTION: Did you actually take all take all substances listed in the project? ANSWER: As I publically mentioned on around day 14 of the Binge, I took some, not all. Here are the substances I did NOT take for the project. -GHB, Psilocybin, Poppers, Ether, 25i, MDMA" Source: http://www.psybry.net/
I'm happy that my drug of choice is sugar. (not that that's a good thing) I had to google most of these to find out what they even were! lol
I know almost none of these... O.o Some look interesting, most look rather scary. Although, I don't agree with the alcohol one at all (unless that's a hangover), so who knows how adequate these are to ones own stat of mind and reaction. I hope I have enough money, when I'm a really old lady, because that's when I want to try a few drugs I am wayyy to afraid to use right now.
ok, im sure its not coincidence the poppers art looks like buttholes and weiners...
Whether or not this is real, I think this is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, for the sake of enjoying art, expressing what drugs are like in art form, and living in the moment I will use potentially harmful drugs? Like others are saying, it doesn't make sense that this is real, but the message this is displaying is really dangerous. Living in the moment is great and all, but "living" in one moment could mean dying in the next.
I don't undersand any of these even the ones supposedly under the influence of drugs I've consumed.
overgloryfying of drugs Imagine the past, future, and linear time are gone,” Pollett explained to A+. “You can just focus on your existence in the present. The idea of tomorrow is laughable. I can create art without concern of outsider judgment, without over analyzing my process, and intuitively enjoy creating the most honest work."
The COCAINE illustration seems to have used the flamingo image from the old Christopher Cross album. Pretty distinctive.
The COCAINE illustration seems to have directly used the flamingo from the old CHRISTOPHER CROSS album.
I bought a friend of mine a book from Bryan Lewis Saunders. He drew self-portraits while high on different drugs. I believe he said he ended up with some brain damage after his "experiment". His get crazy, and you can definitely tell he was "under the influence" while doing them.
first of all how he managed so easily to get off so many drugs.. do u know how hard is to be pure stable the next day... and second this is are pc work, no true spirit.. so it's pretty much fake to me.. third: i don't know why he pictured david bowie while on alcohol o.O ... and i guess he was in deed f****d up on love at the end. :D silly post.
images are beautiful BUT this seems like an attempt to downplay the devestating side effects of using drugs
After 5 years of using responsibly using drugs in moderation I can safely say that I am yet to encounter any devastating side effects. If by that you mean eating 12 bags of Dorritos after smoking a 20 bag then yes you are correct! The legality of something indicate it's harmfulness. Yes there are people that use drugs and in don't do so well in life. But most of the time it is not the drugs you should blame. They may have turned to drugs after something devastating happening to them. Or they may have some kind of addictive personality. There are way too many factors. But it is almost never the substance itself.
Load More Replies...Dear Bored Panda Paulina... The real problem here is that if you're going to take drugs at all- you're not going to do it everyday- because you're going to need some time in between at least some of these trips to recuperate. 20 consecutive days? Whatever. And poppers are a few second long head-rush- not an extended trip- and doing them again and again and again and again is somewhat pointless.
Any artist who tried to do graphics being drunk will probably agree with me that it's probably mainly fake. It's way to perfect. There are very advanced techniques used here and there is no way a person after drugs would make it look so neat. Check Witkacy to see what I mean. And no digital medium is an excuse, I know what I'm saying.
He would have created the art after the effects wore off, while trying to create an image that reflects the experience. For example, DMT is VERY powerful and you can't really see anything around you, or move for that matter, and Ketamine makes you very sluggish and lazy.
Load More Replies...Some people here are so literally minded! Where does he say that he made this illustration during the high itself? He's just trying to express his impression of how it affected him. These comments about "that's not possible" are so tedious. And so is the comments about how wrong or illegal it is. Don't like drugs? Then don't take them! Let everybody else do as they please.
Yeah, you're right. I thought of that possibility too, though I forgot to mention it in a previous reply to seomeone else. These might as well be drawn from memory, while sober.
Load More Replies...Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz - did this about 100 years ago :)https://upload.wikim...Art_Project.jpg
looks like he drew his impressions of the feeling after the drug effect was worn off.
All art is subjective. However, of the 11 substances mentioned here with which I have experience, I can't see how these types of feelings could possibly have been engendered by the drug. Much of this presentation was dictated by the graphic artist/ designer background of the artist and not by the way the drug made him feel. None of these images exhibit any disjointedness that is many times caused by the disruption of neural pathways. But then each drug (as well as each time any gien drug is experienced) is subjective as well.
Thank you for doing ether, this is the only accurate representation i've found of that soul destroying drug that killed me at one point
I have no idea about the drugs (except that I thought Mescaline was posh cheese) but the graphics are outstanding. I guess we'd need to see the artist's work after being drug free for a while.
very good ideas i'm not sure on all the drugs, as i haven't done them all but thinking back to when i did do certain ones a few of the ideas are very fitting
illegal is a title created by humans, like the law, like books that sprung religions... you are all addicted to water , air, salts and glucose ... pointing out substances as evil or illegal is just like pork to jews... once , before refrigeration , pork was so dangerous that, hebrew law made it forbidden ... a logic response to what time and place this had sense... all permission slips...
Does that mean that Jews and Muslims can eat pork now that they can buy fridges?
Load More Replies...definitely fake, and useless to use the same source images/portraits/bills playing all with stereotype psychedelic effects when most of these drugs are not that visually directed but by meanings. On half on this, you would have quickly taken another direction just by resistance to the other cliche, and I know what I am talking about, as an artist & a common drug user without being a junkie. It's just what we call "a bored boring guy trying to make the buzz on the internet"
Let's hope, if he was high, that he's getting help now. Stunning artwork but sad under the circumstances.
Is this suggesting that to the artist, Ketamine feels similar to Love? Since the faces are the same and only the colours change.
I recon this titels made up by the writer. The artist has more than likely just created art that symbolises each drug . No way would you be able to do this s**t while on this stuff.
I think he did these after it wore off as a way to express the trip....
Load More Replies...I want to get these printed off onto massive canvases and put them up around my house. They are BRILLIANTLY BEAUTIFUL!
I still remember high school, when I was prescribed Accutane for hidradenitis supprativa. The biggest side effect of that was elevated sensations of general depression and social anxiety. Any and all suggestions for improvement felt like condemnation and threats, even if they weren't. The world was always dark and foggy, and I remember the proneness toward social withdrawal. Picture the default image as a collage of blues and grays and ugly greens, and a world of suspicion and judgment. The mind trapped in a metaphorical concentration camp. That's Accutane. Now I know why the thing had so many warnings about users with suicidal ideations. It had a knack for exacerbating morbid obsessions.
I was waiting for ayahausca and expected the kiss in mdma than in ketamin.... Artist might have liked kat more...
While I appreciate all kinds of art I can't jump on board with the drug titles here only the drug titles make me not like them because I think of how many Children and Youth will look at this as Glorifying life Destroying drugs... Yeah sure art pushes everything but damn really here? why not just make pedophilia look 'pretty' too. I guess only someone who has known lived and seen their family torn apart by Drug use would get this though right? I have seen so many people Utterly Destroyed that I can't wrap my head around this sort of thing...
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this took a heck of a lot longer than 20 days. No way someone is hitting Meth then the very next day taking Mescaline let alone Ketamine the day after that. Not that I would know anything about these drugs *cough*. After 20 days of doing these drugs back to back I would be surprised if this guy could talk, let alone create any art without needing another week long binge of sleep and multivitamin injections. Very cool art though. They definitely represent the drugs so I don't have any doubt he actually did the drugs. Love the DMT. Nailed that one. And good god Methoxetamine? Never tried MXE personally. Heard you really need to know the dosage or face the hospital. But that picture alone has me curious for sure. That rainbow blasting through the eye out the back of the head... sheesh. I can only imagine the trip on that drug. Great job on the paintings. Would love to have these on my wall.
Interesting how Ketamine and Love are so similarity portrayed. What do you think he was trying to say with that?
Would have been interesting to see an example done 10 days later, sobor to see how bad this burned his brain.
It seems like a heap of clichés about drugs in the form of art. Excellent technique, but I would expect an influence of individual drugs on it. Drugs instead, they act only to didascalic level: cocaine / currency, acid / psychedelic colors, love (this is very rhetorical) / kiss. I do not think that the artist was under the influence of those drugs, I think more to his 'interpretation' of the above. I am confident that in this light you will be able to better appreciate the artist's work. (I apologize for my broken English).
FAKE FAKE FAKE the work is too regular , same style, same subjects, quiet pictures....;it is impossible under dope, specially so different dopes Do you think we are stupid asses and will believe you ?
I think he most likely used a specialized computer software to either develop or use a template that he could then change to express how he felt the various psychoactive drugs had effected his brain
Load More Replies...FAKE....FAKE......FAKE ..... I'm a professionnal painter, I'm 65 .in my young yearsn I took amphetamins(from my doctor as medecines), twice mescaline , once lsd, one amix oflsd and mescaline a, marijuana and H during one year, I drunk alittle too much several times.... I can say that thosepictures are fakes, because they are too much alike ......same subject, same style, just different colours .....It is impossible to do such regularjob under dope and to take so many different dopes so close from one another... stupid article
This is bull poop. Codeine had virtually mind-altering effects. Conversely, some of these drugs are so powerful that hold a brush steady enough to paint with would be nearly impossible.
He didn’t paint the pictures he designed them on a computer after the effects of the drugs wore off based on his memory
Load More Replies...I think he should have had a few days off... he would have been knackered and what about the residual effects of one drug on the next? He needed to come down for a bit..especially around day 14 onwards.. it looked heavy!
He should have had a few days off to come down off some of those drugs. I am sure there were some residual effects going on there
"QUESTION: Did you actually take all take all substances listed in the project? ANSWER: As I publically mentioned on around day 14 of the Binge, I took some, not all. Here are the substances I did NOT take for the project. -GHB, Psilocybin, Poppers, Ether, 25i, MDMA" Source: http://www.psybry.net/
"QUESTION: Did you actually take all take all substances listed in the project? ANSWER: As I publically mentioned on around day 14 of the Binge, I took some, not all. Here are the substances I did NOT take for the project. -GHB, Psilocybin, Poppers, Ether, 25i, MDMA" Source: http://www.psybry.net/
I'm happy that my drug of choice is sugar. (not that that's a good thing) I had to google most of these to find out what they even were! lol
I know almost none of these... O.o Some look interesting, most look rather scary. Although, I don't agree with the alcohol one at all (unless that's a hangover), so who knows how adequate these are to ones own stat of mind and reaction. I hope I have enough money, when I'm a really old lady, because that's when I want to try a few drugs I am wayyy to afraid to use right now.
ok, im sure its not coincidence the poppers art looks like buttholes and weiners...
Whether or not this is real, I think this is absolutely ridiculous. Yes, for the sake of enjoying art, expressing what drugs are like in art form, and living in the moment I will use potentially harmful drugs? Like others are saying, it doesn't make sense that this is real, but the message this is displaying is really dangerous. Living in the moment is great and all, but "living" in one moment could mean dying in the next.
I don't undersand any of these even the ones supposedly under the influence of drugs I've consumed.
overgloryfying of drugs Imagine the past, future, and linear time are gone,” Pollett explained to A+. “You can just focus on your existence in the present. The idea of tomorrow is laughable. I can create art without concern of outsider judgment, without over analyzing my process, and intuitively enjoy creating the most honest work."
The COCAINE illustration seems to have used the flamingo image from the old Christopher Cross album. Pretty distinctive.
The COCAINE illustration seems to have directly used the flamingo from the old CHRISTOPHER CROSS album.
I bought a friend of mine a book from Bryan Lewis Saunders. He drew self-portraits while high on different drugs. I believe he said he ended up with some brain damage after his "experiment". His get crazy, and you can definitely tell he was "under the influence" while doing them.
first of all how he managed so easily to get off so many drugs.. do u know how hard is to be pure stable the next day... and second this is are pc work, no true spirit.. so it's pretty much fake to me.. third: i don't know why he pictured david bowie while on alcohol o.O ... and i guess he was in deed f****d up on love at the end. :D silly post.
images are beautiful BUT this seems like an attempt to downplay the devestating side effects of using drugs
After 5 years of using responsibly using drugs in moderation I can safely say that I am yet to encounter any devastating side effects. If by that you mean eating 12 bags of Dorritos after smoking a 20 bag then yes you are correct! The legality of something indicate it's harmfulness. Yes there are people that use drugs and in don't do so well in life. But most of the time it is not the drugs you should blame. They may have turned to drugs after something devastating happening to them. Or they may have some kind of addictive personality. There are way too many factors. But it is almost never the substance itself.
Load More Replies...Dear Bored Panda Paulina... The real problem here is that if you're going to take drugs at all- you're not going to do it everyday- because you're going to need some time in between at least some of these trips to recuperate. 20 consecutive days? Whatever. And poppers are a few second long head-rush- not an extended trip- and doing them again and again and again and again is somewhat pointless.
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