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Artist Used LSD And Drew Herself For 9 Hours To Show How It Affects Brain
Countless artists have experimented with the effect that drugs have on their work. User whatafinethrowaway, inspired by the “Nine Drawings” series which was the result of an experiment by the US government in the 1950s, asked her friend to draw self-portraits while on a psychotropic drug LSD. The friend took 200µg of LSD and drew 11 self-portraits over nine-plus hours of her acid trip.
“She spent between 15 minutes and 45 minutes on each of the cool drawings,” writes whatafinethrowaway on Reddit. “It didn’t seem hard for her to focus, I was actually quite impressed by that. She just loved what she was doing. I don’t know if the change of styles of the pencil drawings was on purpose or not.”
While Bored Panda does not condone the use of psychotropic or any other drugs illegal in your country, the surreal hallucinations and accompanying comments are certainly interesting!
More info: whatafinethrowaway (h/t: aplus, cowboybooks)
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15 min after taking LSD
Before any noticeable effect.
45 min
« Are you feeling anything?
– Nope.
– Those are some bright colors!
– Yeah. That’s probably gonna get worse. »
1 h 45 min
2 h 15 min
« That was a good idea, buying coloured pencils. »
3 h 30 min
« I didn’t draw the eyes. Do you want me to draw the eyes? I don’t feel like drawing the eyes. »
4 h 45 min
« Here you go. I’m violet. »
Later: « Usually, I draw the eyes at the very end, because I don’t want the picture to look at me while I’m drawing it. Here, I didn’t want the picture to look at me at all. »
6 h
« I lost the black pencil. I only had the coloured ones. »
6 h 45 min
8 h
After 45 minutes in the dark, listening to some Pink Floyd, she started to draw again.
8 h 45 min
She didn’t seem quite satisfied with the last one, so she directly started this one: « During the previous one, I tried to draw what was inside my head, but in the middle of it, things were happening outside my head instead. »
9 h 30 min after taking LSD
While the effects were disappearing.
« Do you want to draw the last one? Like, a normal one?
– I’ll try. »
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AyushJha 10 years ago
aah! this explains alot! so all the anime characters are drown when the artists are on LSD! cool :D
YvonneBernal 10 years ago
If you had read the WHOLE article you would already know the answer to your question.
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JesseCashin 10 years ago
Pre-flight check list rule 1: Give someone you trust your phone, nothing good ever comes of having expensive easily breakable objects while on spirit quest
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CheriLawley 10 years ago
Awesome! To the author: how would you describe your influence on this artist during her high? Has the artist used LSD before? Did you find you had to direct her to either stay focused, calm down, remind her she's drawing a self-portrait? Etcetc. You mentioned the artist's focus - would you say she "tried harder" on the elaborate portraits such as at 6 hr 45 minutes, or would you say that this was all 'very natural' to the artist (i.e. came easily, no thinking required). To the comment section: I appreciate the education on who has done this before, and when. But the pretentious addition of "so it's definitely not new" is unnecessary. Do we live in a world of, "if it's been done before, don't do it again?" If so, everyone, stop having sex, stop eating, and definitely stop breathing....
AutumnMidhir 10 years ago
Beautiful stuff. I've only drawn tripping once - usually I have to be outside. I can't stand being inside when I'm on acid.
RebeccaHorner 10 years ago
Anyone who has gone to University for Fine Arts has done this...more than once lol.
Juan José Astudillo 4 years ago
you may become or dissolve into nothingness, "the dark" the dark place is really, a place where you may find your inner light. Perhaps
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JessicaBedard 10 years ago
Cool and yes a lot of famous animated movies and characters were made under the influence......come on...alice in wonderland....
DerickHess 10 years ago
alice in wonderland is a book written 73 years before LSD was invented
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AyushJha 10 years ago
aah! this explains alot! so all the anime characters are drown when the artists are on LSD! cool :D
YvonneBernal 10 years ago
If you had read the WHOLE article you would already know the answer to your question.
Load More Replies... JesseCashin 10 years ago
Pre-flight check list rule 1: Give someone you trust your phone, nothing good ever comes of having expensive easily breakable objects while on spirit quest
Load More Replies... CheriLawley 10 years ago
Awesome! To the author: how would you describe your influence on this artist during her high? Has the artist used LSD before? Did you find you had to direct her to either stay focused, calm down, remind her she's drawing a self-portrait? Etcetc. You mentioned the artist's focus - would you say she "tried harder" on the elaborate portraits such as at 6 hr 45 minutes, or would you say that this was all 'very natural' to the artist (i.e. came easily, no thinking required). To the comment section: I appreciate the education on who has done this before, and when. But the pretentious addition of "so it's definitely not new" is unnecessary. Do we live in a world of, "if it's been done before, don't do it again?" If so, everyone, stop having sex, stop eating, and definitely stop breathing....
AutumnMidhir 10 years ago
Beautiful stuff. I've only drawn tripping once - usually I have to be outside. I can't stand being inside when I'm on acid.
RebeccaHorner 10 years ago
Anyone who has gone to University for Fine Arts has done this...more than once lol.
Juan José Astudillo 4 years ago
you may become or dissolve into nothingness, "the dark" the dark place is really, a place where you may find your inner light. Perhaps
Load More Replies... JessicaBedard 10 years ago
Cool and yes a lot of famous animated movies and characters were made under the influence......come on...alice in wonderland....
DerickHess 10 years ago
alice in wonderland is a book written 73 years before LSD was invented
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