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)
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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aah! this explains alot! so all the anime characters are drown when the artists are on LSD! cool :D
If you had read the WHOLE article you would already know the answer to your question.
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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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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....
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.
Anyone who has gone to University for Fine Arts has done this...more than once lol.
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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Cool and yes a lot of famous animated movies and characters were made under the influence......come on...alice in wonderland....
alice in wonderland is a book written 73 years before LSD was invented
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interesting experiment, don't believe it is worth destroying your brain cells for.
Sorry, this is a hoax, no one has the attention span long enough to draw sketches. She would've been out the room bout two hours in on a quest to see how she could make a trip around the block as long as possible. That, or the LSD wasn't strong enough
My younger brother took LSD in the sixties and painted what he was sure to be a masterpiece. It was all one color - blah...he didn't take LSD again.
wtf, she doesn't even know how to draw, why nowdays everyobdy call themselves "artist"?!
'I'll try.' - aww honey! <3 you already knew it never ever gonna be the same! thank you!
well this article made me realize.. it's not that I don't know how to draw, it's just I do it like I'm 8h into LSD trip.
As an Artist the last time I did it was 16-17 years ago... I still have ideas in my head and sketches of 3 projects from that time period where I am working out the technical details in order to paint the transforming images
http://www.becomingjj.com/art-drugs-about-bryan-lewis-saunders-and-stanis%C5%82aw-ignacy-witkiewicz-witkacy
I read an article in Mondo 2000, years ago in which some of the early pioneers in computers (in the S.F. Bay Area) said that they didn't think they could have done what they did without having taken LSD. I can't run that article down now, but I do remember reading it. Here is a quote by R.U. Sirius (of Mondo 2000). "The convergence, or rather the undercurrent of psychedelic consciousness in the computer scene in the 80s and 90s was not an isolated phenomenon, I have interviewed many luminaries — like Philip Glass and John Allen of Biosphere 2 — who admitted that LSD or other highs had given them the inspiration for breakthrough work." (http://www.acceler8or.com/2012/03/new-edge-mondo-a-personal-perspective-part-2-mondo-2000-history-project-entry-8/)
if she can draw such paintings on high, what that proves ? take lsd before paintings
Some are quite beautifull though, especially those faceless beauty. I think her paintings alternate between ugly and beauty
Fascinating. Wish I had thought of art while tripping back when I did such things.
Not "how it affects the brain," but how it affected her brain. Certainly not scientific, and not really very interesting. Might be more so if you got someone who actually drew well to begin with.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/artist-draws-nine-portraits-on-lsd-during-1950s-research-experiment.html
Nice! But it would be even nicer if the girl posted her after impressions on the drawings
The conflict ion... I dunno... I don't think I'd want to be in the same world this girl was in while her drawings are beautiful I'd probably be really freaked out to experience them... The ones without pupils or irises are particularly disturbing... but I do like 8:45... the conflict ion...
I am surprised they admitted it let alone do it .Wondered how all seem to start ..just ask them''Here ,take this ..now draw''.Hmm Our world won't have a future , nor a chance ,if this is the answer to our culture
Polish painter Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz commonly known as Witkacy did this in the early 1920s. And it was more spectacular. Many of his paintings were annotated with mnemonics listing the drugs taken while painting a particular painting, even if this happened to be only a cup of coffee. So this is nothing new and nothing special ;)
Anyone who has attended University for a Fine Arts degree will tell you this is much more fun using oil paint...
This looks like 6 year old kid drew that c**p. Imagine what she/he could do on lsd or cocaine within 5 min.
Your assumption of mental disorders and ignorance of psychedelic medication is judgemental and ignorant.
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aah! this explains alot! so all the anime characters are drown when the artists are on LSD! cool :D
If you had read the WHOLE article you would already know the answer to your question.
Load More Replies... 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... 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....
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.
Anyone who has gone to University for Fine Arts has done this...more than once lol.
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... Cool and yes a lot of famous animated movies and characters were made under the influence......come on...alice in wonderland....
alice in wonderland is a book written 73 years before LSD was invented
Load More Replies... interesting experiment, don't believe it is worth destroying your brain cells for.
Sorry, this is a hoax, no one has the attention span long enough to draw sketches. She would've been out the room bout two hours in on a quest to see how she could make a trip around the block as long as possible. That, or the LSD wasn't strong enough
My younger brother took LSD in the sixties and painted what he was sure to be a masterpiece. It was all one color - blah...he didn't take LSD again.
wtf, she doesn't even know how to draw, why nowdays everyobdy call themselves "artist"?!
'I'll try.' - aww honey! <3 you already knew it never ever gonna be the same! thank you!
well this article made me realize.. it's not that I don't know how to draw, it's just I do it like I'm 8h into LSD trip.
As an Artist the last time I did it was 16-17 years ago... I still have ideas in my head and sketches of 3 projects from that time period where I am working out the technical details in order to paint the transforming images
http://www.becomingjj.com/art-drugs-about-bryan-lewis-saunders-and-stanis%C5%82aw-ignacy-witkiewicz-witkacy
I read an article in Mondo 2000, years ago in which some of the early pioneers in computers (in the S.F. Bay Area) said that they didn't think they could have done what they did without having taken LSD. I can't run that article down now, but I do remember reading it. Here is a quote by R.U. Sirius (of Mondo 2000). "The convergence, or rather the undercurrent of psychedelic consciousness in the computer scene in the 80s and 90s was not an isolated phenomenon, I have interviewed many luminaries — like Philip Glass and John Allen of Biosphere 2 — who admitted that LSD or other highs had given them the inspiration for breakthrough work." (http://www.acceler8or.com/2012/03/new-edge-mondo-a-personal-perspective-part-2-mondo-2000-history-project-entry-8/)
if she can draw such paintings on high, what that proves ? take lsd before paintings
Some are quite beautifull though, especially those faceless beauty. I think her paintings alternate between ugly and beauty
Fascinating. Wish I had thought of art while tripping back when I did such things.
Not "how it affects the brain," but how it affected her brain. Certainly not scientific, and not really very interesting. Might be more so if you got someone who actually drew well to begin with.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/10/artist-draws-nine-portraits-on-lsd-during-1950s-research-experiment.html
Nice! But it would be even nicer if the girl posted her after impressions on the drawings
The conflict ion... I dunno... I don't think I'd want to be in the same world this girl was in while her drawings are beautiful I'd probably be really freaked out to experience them... The ones without pupils or irises are particularly disturbing... but I do like 8:45... the conflict ion...
I am surprised they admitted it let alone do it .Wondered how all seem to start ..just ask them''Here ,take this ..now draw''.Hmm Our world won't have a future , nor a chance ,if this is the answer to our culture
Polish painter Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz commonly known as Witkacy did this in the early 1920s. And it was more spectacular. Many of his paintings were annotated with mnemonics listing the drugs taken while painting a particular painting, even if this happened to be only a cup of coffee. So this is nothing new and nothing special ;)
Anyone who has attended University for a Fine Arts degree will tell you this is much more fun using oil paint...
This looks like 6 year old kid drew that c**p. Imagine what she/he could do on lsd or cocaine within 5 min.
Your assumption of mental disorders and ignorance of psychedelic medication is judgemental and ignorant.
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