Artistic enhancement through substance.

[Voidwalk]

So I've been brainstorming ideas to finish tattoing my sleeve, the other half will be heavily influenced by my love for psychedellics.
When next I trip, I'll be on a decent dose of LSD with DMT at the peak, try and draw what knocks my socks off, only I'm an absoloutely horrid drawer.
Has anyone found that whilst high they are gifted with enhanced ability to draw etc?

 

[Eliyahu]

Here is the understatement of the century:

I definitely have found that psychedelics are quite a creativity enhancer.
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Art and LSD go hand and hand,,,,Psychologists that gave LSD to schizophrenics in the 60s used to let the patients "doodle" while on the psychedelic because these drawings would generally provide vast insights into the patients psychological state. I believe you can look some of these types pictures up on the internet..Interesting stuff

Even though I am a musician....I love to draw on psychedelics!! It is the most incredible and relaxing thing ever..........especially on LSD or Mescaline,,,,
on Ayahuasca I usually can't get up off the floor to draw.

Actually my father was a serious LSD artist back in his day in the early 70s......

He taught me this great technique for painting or drawing on psychedelics..

I will gladly share it with you now..
I call it "living doodles"
or "a not-drawing"

The method he taught me is simple but if you do it right you will be amazed by the results.

1. Stop trying to think of something to draw.

2. Empty your mind as best you can.

3. Put on some good music..Lately I like a Ravi Shankar/Grateful Dead/Pink Floyd Blend mixed nicely with some Jimi Hendrix and a Splash of Tool but that is just my personal pref...

4 Start doodling "perfect things".....for example just start drawing lines, or circles or whatever it feels like would be the most aesthetically ideal placement and position of what ever you draw. Take your time, go quickly, do whatever you feel you need to do in the moment The key here is....do not try and "make out" anything from what you are drawing and also do not purposely try to draw anything either....


5.focus as hard as you can on creating beautiful doodles and do not try and understand what the pictures are of....sometimes I will even turn the page I am drawing on upside down in the middle of the drawing just to keep myself from formulating an Idea about what the pictures in the doodles may become.

usually I use a series of wavy and straight lines but we all have our separate doodling styles I'm sure.
It's indeed challenging but not impossible and really just a matter of a bit of mental discipline....

6. try your best to not allow yourself or anyone else to start noticing what the picture your doodling is or will be.

7.do not finish the picture until you feel like the picture is totally finished. (you will know when this happens).

8. look at what you have done..turn the page upside down and all around...:thumb_up:
Depending on how long you were doodling you may have created who knows how many different pictures, messages, symbols or iconic images you may see....
It can also be great for giving you ideas you never would have dreamed of on your own....
Usually I draw a lot of faces....both alien and human as well as animals, future events and other messages from the great beyond.

My friends and I have spent hours looking at the mind blowing pictures in our doodles.
I myself am a terrible artist but using this method I can draw a person or animal like I was an actual professional sketch artist.

I have turned several people on to this method and one of them was so amazed with the results that he actually wound up going to art school and he now (10years later) has a good career in art.


Hope you enjoy.:d

P.S you should maybe try adding some Caapi to your LSD.DMT JOURNEY but that's just my recommendation

 

[Eliyahu]

BTW.....

This reminds me of this crazy story....my Dad swears up and down that he doodled a shark while on LSD one time and then when he was finished drawing it ......The shark literally swam off the page and out of the room...leaving the page blank. He said he spent two hours drawing it before it swam away............

He was not using the method I described above by the way....I just thought it was a good story. although obviously unverifiable

 

[Global]

I find that psychedelics make it easier to write and improv music. With LSD, all my thoughts naturally splinter in a multitude of directions at every turn, so when applied to music, a plethora of paths and options become immediately apparent that would not have been otherwise. On DMT/pharma/aya, it quickly becomes like painting with sound. I begin to see the music in the air, and it becomes much more of a visual experience. This also clearly opens up a new way of playing with new options. The way my hands feel on the instrument (usually guitar strings) often feels pretty different too. This can lead to more creative playing on the virtue that since the hands/strings feel different, it can create for a sort of exploration of the fretboard that's different when relying on muscle memory and everything feeling the same.

Additionally with DMT, I find the experience to be "energetic" in the sense that there are energies flowing throughout the room, and the body responds to them through some involuntary actions. When this is taken into account with playing the guitar, it literally creates motions that I would have not ordinarily "ordered" my fingers to do, and didn't. I find my fingers energetically snap into place. It's a very strange phenomena.

 

[daedaloops]

Sure yeah, like I mentioned in another thread, a few years ago I could barely draw stick men, and then I found psychedelics, and then for a few years I thought that psychedelics temporarily activated some beacon in my head that was relaying transmissions from more creative dimensions. The drawings didn't look like anything I could ever draw, so I assumed it couldn't have been me.

But since joining the nexus a few months ago I've had the guts to try drawing even while sober (thanks to encouragement!), and as a total surprise I can actually make things other than stick men. It's just that when you're sober, the chatter in your head is full of hypercritical BS, but if you can override that and just brainstorm without thinking, you'll find that even the sober (but silent) mind can have access to these realms.

And there's no such thing as talent, only motivation and experience. Everyone should find the things they love to do and just not give up on them. And stop thinkinG!

 

[Mary]

On my journey through life I have to say I do believe psychedelics expand the mind, allowing creativity to transpire.
I myself was somewhat artistic before I had ever done psychedelics. I could paint decently. Now though that I do psychedelics on a regular basis my art is way more intricately detailed with beauty.

Also to add I listened to music before I had done any psychedelics, but I had never played an instrument. Now with the help of psychedelics my music selection has changed greatly I think for the better because not all the bands I listened to were the greatest prior to doing psychedelics. Now after many experiences with listening to music after taking some kind of psychedelic, it's like my ears are able to hear music completely different. It's as if now I am able to hear the soul of the musicians. I appreciate musicians and the beauty which they create a whole lot more than I did before.
Here is a short list of some of the bands that have inspired me to become a musician Led Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Ravi Shankar, The beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Doors, Louis Armstrong, Bob Marley, Sublime, Jack Johnson, Inxs, U2, and Tool to name a few. I am now always looking for more ways to express my passion for life.

 

[Guyomech]

Mary- Like your playlist.

Psychedelics do activate the creative mind in unparalleled ways. You will see and understand the structure of your ideas with a depth and clarity you'd never thought possible.

At the same time, your physical coordination starts to drop off. As the dose gets higher the visions become more intense but the ability to do anything useful with them drops off sharply.

There is a sweet spot, for me about 3G shrooms or 300ug acid, where I'll have access to a lot of that great creative mojo while still being able to hold a brush or pen. However, one of two things can happen:

1) I may find that every attempt I make, every brushstroke, is a squishy uncontrollable mess;

2) my interface with my medium is enhanced and I can feel every microscopic bump on the canvas as I glide the brush over it.

This second effect is especially cool when I tattoo on acid (only on consenting clients!) I can feel a heightened sense of the machine's rhythm, an enhanced perception of the vibration of the needle striking the skin... An almost total sense of control as I feel how a slight change in the stretch alters the sense of the points' grip on the skin. I imagine that playing guitar on this dose could lead to a similar feeling.

But I also have work ethic issues while painting or tattooing on this dose... Part of me just wants to wander off, smoke weed and stare at cool stuff.

 

[cosmic butterfly]

no dought in my mind that psychadelics increase creativity. look at some of the greats-jimmy hendrix, pink floyd, the doors, alex grey, shpongle... weed prob biggest influence in my music, but made some very nice things in changa n shroom dazes as well, as well as sober but in a trance. i think they help us connect to what ever it is and allow a nice flow of this information to come through without effort, i can spend weeks trying to get something done, but than i can have one of those holy moments and a day will go by like a minute with me saying afterwords what the hell just happened like it wasnt me at all. something controlling my hand somehow choosing the right sounds and notes every time and everything coming out in perfect flow with the universe. thats y i never take credit for much of what i make

 

[Mary]

Cosmic Butterfly- something controlling my hand somehow choosing the right sounds and notes every time and everything coming out in perfect flow with the universe.

I have to say I agree with this statement completely. It was as if some sort of force which I believe are spirits came and bonded with me. Conducting my activities. I think it's the spirits way of trying to teach me.