Notebook of drug-influenced drawings

Illustrator Jeremy W. Eaton has kindly scanned and uploaded some of his notebook sketches drawn under the influence of drugs such as marijuana, psilocybin, LSD, and Diet Pepsi. (Above: Hashish, 1996.)

Drawing on drugs

[#1 posted by kmoser , December 16, 2008 3:30 PM]

Makes me wonder what his drawings look like when he's not under the influence.

[#2 posted by MollyMaguire , December 16, 2008 3:40 PM]

On my first lsd trip, I thought it was going to be cool to write a bunch of stuff down. For the most part, what I wrote was terribly uninteresting. I was a better writer under the influence of depression.

[#3 posted by rAMPANTiDIOCY , December 16, 2008 4:24 PM]

i was able to guess 4/5 drugs just by looking at the drawings. I forgot that caffeine was one of the choices.

[#4 posted by Sekino , December 16, 2008 4:38 PM]

It's too bad that the drawings were so far apart time-wise. They seem to reflect more about the artist's skill and inspirations throughout the years rather than a difference between drugs.

It would have been cool to see drawings made while using a different drug every night for a week... but I suppose that would be also pretty irresponsible and reckless.

[#5 posted by arkizzle , December 16, 2008 5:42 PM]

Hah! the only time I properly tried to draw on acid, there was this empty box of christmas tree lights. The most profound thing I found in my sketchbook the next morning:

DO NOT ILLUMINATE IN THE PACKAGING

I loved it.

[#6 posted by arkizzle , December 16, 2008 5:44 PM]

Sekino,

"..but I suppose that would be also pretty irresponsible and reckless."

Pfft! This is Art !!

[#7 posted by The Lizardman , December 16, 2008 5:48 PM]

A sober drawing from the same time period for comparison really would make it much better but it is still cool

[#8 posted by CTJen , December 16, 2008 6:47 PM]

clearly, aspartame is a gateway drug.

[#9 posted by Anonymous , December 16, 2008 10:00 PM]

http://www.funhostr.com/p/0KuJtYKZ/Drawings_under_the_influence_of_LSD

An artist is given higher and higher dosages of LSD and is given a box of pencils and some paper.

-ES.

[#10 posted by mutantcarrot , December 16, 2008 10:01 PM]

Clearly I've never done drugs, but it always impresses me to see artwork people have done under the influence. I'm thinking that on LSD, I'd just be writhing on the floor wildly, hallucinating extensively about the 2-week-old potato chip on the carpet next to my face.

[#11 posted by azaner , December 16, 2008 10:12 PM]

"Paging Dr. Woodring . . ."

[#12 posted by minTphresh , December 16, 2008 10:21 PM]

mutant, clearly you've never done LSD!

[#13 posted by mindpimp , December 17, 2008 2:33 AM]

This would have been a much better post had it included what his drawings look like whilst stone cold sober. Most of them seem vastly different not due to the drugs but more due to having evolved as an arist.
For a more scientific approach, take a gander at: http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm which is how spiders build webs whilst under the influence of Marijuana, Benzedrine/Speed, Caffeine, LSD, etc.

[#14 posted by Supermodified , December 17, 2008 5:13 AM]

My friend drew this drawing after settling down following a particularly bad acid trip:

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/31/196985/image3edit.png

To the rest of us (who were enjoying the night), it was both amazing and unnerving at the same time. I'm glad I kept hold of it, though.

I removed the colour and darkened the image a bit, for effect.

[#15 posted by Strophe , December 17, 2008 6:58 AM]

While drawing the pic up top, was he also watching John Carpenter's version of The Thing?

[#16 posted by fistula spume , December 17, 2008 7:11 AM]

I was just saying to my wife last night that there's a certain style of art that a lot of drug addicts make that looks like cartoonish multiple penis eyeball appendage monsters. What a coincidence to see this post. Must be synchronicity.

[#17 posted by urshrew , December 17, 2008 12:17 PM]

I do art like this all the time, but not on drugs...

There must be something wrong with me.

Anyway, I'd link some of it, but I can't remember what bb's link policies are again.

[#18 posted by ConsiderThis , December 17, 2008 12:36 PM]

URSHREW-
Was wondering the same thing. What does it mean when you paint like this when not on drugs?

[#19 posted by urshrew , December 17, 2008 2:06 PM]

I can't say what it means about us, but I can say that some drugs may be a vehicle for creativity.

Actually, I just said I was creative! Hope nobody makes me prove that statement.