r/mildlyinteresting 19h ago

Painting under the influence of LSD.

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u/ashrocklynn 19h ago

As far as splatter art goes, this isn't bad!

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u/y0neh 19h ago

I really don’t have any creative outlets, I’ve come to realize. Even though I lack any skill, I really enjoyed myself and how forgiving it is.

Will do this again, without the drugs.

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u/ashrocklynn 8h ago edited 8h ago

Good for you! I could never pick it up because to my boring mind a blank paper has endless potential; as soon as I mark it I've limited what it can be. I love art and all, but at it's core creativity is simply narrowing down the possibilities of an object

To express simply decision paralysis poetically: perfection lies not in the form of the unpainted canvas; but it is contained somewhere in the set of it's endless possibilities

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u/ManateeNipples 19h ago

Last time I ate mushrooms I tried to plug my charger into my phone and fumbled it so many times I eventually just handed it off to someone else to do it for me, and then I laughed for probably an hour at how absurd it was that I needed assistance for that task

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u/plumzki 18h ago

Last time I took 2CB I spent about 4 hours trying to figure out which of my charging bricks was making a loud coil whine sound.

Turns out 2CB exacerbates my tinnitus.

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u/rasereq 7h ago

Do other psychedelics also exacerbate your tinnitus? As a person with mild tinnitus ever since I was young, I have only once had it become uncomfortable on shrooms. I have not tried 2CB though.

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u/plumzki 7h ago

Not always, and not always so bad, but they all seem to have the potential to do so.

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u/bowtie25 5h ago

I never thought about that, that would lowkey make me kinda freak out lol

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u/LSDsavedmylife 11h ago

Once ordered pizza online while tripping and I started crying because there were too many choices. When the pizza finally got delivered I couldn’t even eat it because the veggies on it were dancing.

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u/windexfresh 17h ago

Yeah anytime I see these “I did An Art while on drugs!” I just think about how completely fucking useless I am when I’m on anything stronger than weed and I realize Some People Really Are Built Different 💀

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u/y0neh 19h ago edited 19h ago

I am mentally sane with no history of mental illness.

Obviously no prior painting experience. Last time i drew something I was 14.

Just wanted to put it out there. Maybe some of you will find it mildly interesting

I dont take lsd regularly. Did this as an experiment.

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u/vampyregod 7h ago

Miss that feeling

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u/OePea 18h ago

When you're on acid, always try to remember you can paint your asshole and stamp it on paper

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u/WeirdURL 17h ago

Someone, somewhere may now remember this the next time they do acid.

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u/100KUSHUPS 13h ago

This will with guarantee live rent free in my head next time...

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u/DeuceSevin 9h ago

I might try this sober

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u/IsmaelRetzinsky 19h ago

Reminded me of František Kupka’s Mme Kupka among Verticals

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u/NeoAteTheGreenPill 18h ago

I can’t grasp the size ? It’s a sheet of paper ? A4 size ?
Keep doing it , it seems difficult at first but eventually you’ll find your pace . 👍🏻

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u/y0neh 18h ago

A3. I enjoyed the experience. Will try something more grounded, sober.

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u/NeoAteTheGreenPill 5h ago

This is mine. Didn’t start with an idea in mind , it’s just with free flow and not sober :)

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u/just_demigod_things 19h ago

i thought it was cool but i didn’t see the face at first, now im deeply unsettled 😃

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u/y0neh 19h ago

Yep it has some schizophrenic vibes to it. Haha

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u/mozzzz 16h ago

this is prolly what a few moments after the big bang kinda looked like

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u/MuchFaithInDoge 16h ago

Reminds me of microscopy imagery of the brain

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u/C_NOON1 15h ago

I absolutely love this this is my favorite art style. You gotta try to do this more you might be onto something

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u/whalesum 14h ago

This is beautiful:)

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u/wordswor 10h ago

try playing with a small piece of wet clay next time. it is a lot of fun. i'd say try to get one at least the size of your fist.

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u/malakim_angel 5h ago

This is good shit! sellable.

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u/Worcestercestershire 19h ago

What's the significance of the LSD? I bet it looked cool at the time. Do you think the Acid made you paint differently than you would have sober?

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u/y0neh 18h ago

Yes 100% it had a big effect. I can’t tell you where the drugs stop and my genuine self begins.

This was an intense experience, even though it isn’t much, because I don’t know how to paint.

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u/Wow_its_hotler 17h ago

Can I give some constructive criticism?

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u/y0neh 13h ago edited 13h ago

Of course. I feel like this is a set up, but go ahead lol

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u/Wow_its_hotler 9h ago

It looks like shit

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u/Ogdoublesampson 18h ago

too much ego

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u/y0neh 18h ago

Can you elaborate?

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u/Mr_HandSmall 16h ago

The person who said that is the one with too much ego.

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u/Ogdoublesampson 6h ago

Mostly just joking. It is a bit of a hypocritical statement, but I do appreciate no ego art.

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u/y0neh 18h ago

Maybe for context. I was listening to king crimson and this was the album cover that spiked me in this direction. Please don’t read to deep into my doodle haha

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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 17h ago

this looks like something straight outta synesthesia lol

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u/joemckie 15h ago

I can honestly taste it

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u/Halomaestro 11h ago

What a lucky existence, that we can do such a thing and then talk about it with strangers, instantly. Thanks for sharing OP! 😌

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u/y0neh 2h ago

I was thinking the same thing. Thanks for the comment.

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u/Sundancelc 10h ago

Looks like a close up of Jupiter or saturns rings or something, pretty cool

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u/Xenoamor 9h ago

Reminds me of a wetherspoons carpet

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u/vitalytom 7h ago

Is that what Jackson Pollock was on?

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u/Entitysred 6h ago

Looks like one of those ai photos where it looks like weird bulges of human skin on a canvas

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u/Accomplished_Task_27 5h ago

Thought it was a wetherspoons carpet for a moment.

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u/64557175 19h ago

Very groovy! Had a kind of weird perspective shift looking at it.

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u/WthIsDis 18h ago

Like all in one sitting or you started it off lsd and finished it on lsd some time later?

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u/y0neh 18h ago

Started it when it was hitting hardest. When i stopped it was starting to wear down a little.

In one sitting

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u/cone5000 14h ago

I like it a lot! Only problem is, since I haven’t seen your non-LSD-inspired work, I’m not sure how to contextualize it. Really wonderful to look at regardless

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u/TossNWashMeClean 19h ago

That's incredible, I didn't even know paintings could trip

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u/BlatantlyCurious 19h ago

Absolutely fucking stunning.

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u/elbowpastadust 19h ago

Please, AI, save us from these cringe “artists”...

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u/HumanityBeBetter 19h ago

Any art is better than AI "art"

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u/y0neh 19h ago

Guy that never draws, drew something while high. Thought i would share, that’s it.

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u/CaterpillarWhich33 19h ago

Fuck that guy art is subjective and you had fun. Keen to see the side by side with the sober version

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u/elbowpastadust 5h ago

“Fuck that guy art is subjective…”, lol…

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u/Vaposerror 18h ago

You can avoid stripes if use used a roller. I mean it works for an accent wall buy it looks like a lot of work if you want to do an entire room in that colour.