Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington DC who has drawn over 8,000 self portraits – one for every
day of the last 21 years – and has taken a shitload of drugs in that time, too. Some of those self-portraits have been drawn while under the influence of different drugs, the results of which are pretty fantastic. Not unlike the spiderwebs made by spiders under the influence, it is extremely interesting to see what different drugs do to one’s creativity.
Klonopin
Dialaudid
Risperdol
“Real” Absinthe
Adderol
Bath Salts
Ambien
Cephalexin
Cocaine
Computer duster
Two bottles of cough syrup
“A bump” of crystal meth
“G13″ (very potent) marijuana
Hash (less-potent) marijuana
Kindbud (regular) marijuana
Huffing a bag of lighter fluid
Loritab
Psychedelic mushrooms
Nitrous oxide
PCP
Percocet
Pot brownies
Valium
Valium IV drip / 100% Oxygen mixture (in hospital)
Xanax
September 20, 2012 at 8:19 pm, Stacy DelBoccio Cavicchia said:
Wow….Very interesting. Just…wow.
September 20, 2012 at 8:43 pm, Ali Lewis said:
Someone just sent me that. I thought it was so cool!!
September 20, 2012 at 8:43 pm, Stacy DelBoccio Cavicchia said:
Cool indeed. Some are down right freaky!
September 20, 2012 at 8:48 pm, Evan LaRocca said:
That dilauded one is scary how accurate it is to how it makes you feel.
September 20, 2012 at 8:58 pm, Stephanie Adelheid Papen said:
The bath salts portrait is frightening…
September 21, 2012 at 2:07 pm, Amir Imraan said:
How is this man still alive
April 17, 2013 at 4:54 am, James Blissenbach said:
drugs arent as life threatening as after school programs would lead you to beieve. its addiction that becomes the problem. shit half the kids in america are falsely prescribed ritalin or adderal for daily use, which for all intents and purposes are just methamphetamines under a different name.
September 20, 2012 at 9:29 pm, Smith Kristen said:
Neato
September 20, 2012 at 10:24 pm, Andrew L Simpson Jr said:
That dude will never be 100% after that
September 20, 2012 at 9:43 pm, Aroundthe Jenifur said:
Wow! That's all I have to say! Wow.
September 21, 2012 at 12:03 am, Maximillian Otto Lapine said:
Xanax is right on.
September 21, 2012 at 4:38 am, Peter Haas said:
very artistic. good idea. represents most of the drugs well. but you left out very important drugs. and did the same substance more then once.klon and zanex both binzodiasipans. adderal and meth both stimulants. alcohol? LSD? mescaline? crack? inject the meth? if your going to do an opiete why loritab? and not heroin.
October 11, 2012 at 5:23 am, Jon Parsons said:
Did you not read the post? The drugs are secondary. He did a self portrait every day, and happened to do these drugs on some of the days. He didnt set out to do a comprehensive "draw every drug" project. To me opiates pretty much the same anyway, if you eliminate for method of delivery and dosage. Im sure your mileage will vary though. If you are interested in the hallucinogens self portraits google it, there are some good ones on the interwebz especially LSD
October 17, 2012 at 8:58 pm, Moss Dossun said:
check his website. there are over a hundred others, including portraits done on the drugs you just mentioned.
October 19, 2012 at 7:29 am, D.j. Larsen said:
A "bump" of meth is usually intravenous. It's not the same as a bump of a line of coke.
October 24, 2012 at 11:02 pm, Christopher Robin said:
Wrong.
September 21, 2012 at 9:56 am, Yolanda Kaczmarczyk said:
Awesome work!
September 21, 2012 at 1:16 pm, Juan Vidales said:
Crazy what about herion..
October 11, 2012 at 5:27 am, Jon Parsons said:
for heroin just look at dilaudid. same diff same feeling
September 21, 2012 at 5:42 pm, Flex Hess said:
Seems like the more drugs he did the better he got
September 21, 2012 at 5:45 pm, Mary Bowen said:
i think that a child could have done a better job
September 22, 2012 at 6:56 am, Kelsey Embry said:
Then you don't understand art.
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September 26, 2012 at 4:35 am, Eric Sharp said:
The air duster one is hilarious hahaha.
September 28, 2012 at 8:27 am, Dom Myers said:
Pretty sweet apart from the Bath Salts, that's way too vague.
September 28, 2012 at 8:27 am, Dom Myers said:
as in too vague a title that could be one of hundreds of drugs
October 11, 2012 at 5:27 am, Jon Parsons said:
Aren't they pretty much the same, just minor brand differences? The synth Coke is Glass Cleaner not bath salts (at least locally, im sure it varies state to state) all the bath salts here are pretty much meth analogues with hallucinogenic properties. maybe diff strengths but not vastly diff drugs.
October 15, 2012 at 8:37 pm, Dom Myers said:
I honestly don't know as I'm in the UK but I know that when the legal drugs were called plant food it was a really broad term, and there's still methoxetimine and some meo-something PCP which though both dissociatives I imagine they have very different effects.
April 17, 2013 at 5:06 am, James Blissenbach said:
yeah where im from bath salts could be mdpv, a stimulant simillar to mdma and cocaine; methoxetamine, a dissociative simillar to ketamine; methiopropamine, an analogue of methamphetamine; and a whole line of psychadelics ranging from pcp and dmt analogues to the infamous 2c family of drugs. not to mention many more that escape my mind currently.
so dude could have been speeding, or tripping, or both, or even near passed out from a k-hole when he was on "bath salts"
October 02, 2012 at 9:12 am, Bryan W Zachary said:
Dude, Cephalexin is an antibiotic…..wtf?
October 10, 2012 at 3:08 pm, Finn Middleton said:
Dude, did you not know antibiotics are drugs? :S
October 11, 2012 at 11:39 pm, Jake Williams said:
you fail with this comment
October 17, 2012 at 1:37 am, Theresa McCruden said:
I get what he means Cephalexin is an antibiotic to treat infections such as ear infections or uti's. I took a maitence dose for years and never did I hear word that it made you high. If it does it must be in extremely high doses
October 17, 2012 at 3:06 am, Lorri Robinson said:
Makes my palms itch — that's the allergic reaction to cephalexin. So I don't take it. Don't like itchy palms.
Never made me high, though…
October 17, 2012 at 10:32 am, Finn Middleton said:
I can see what you're trying to say, But think about it xD
Not all drugs get you high / Just because something doesn't get you high doesn't mean it ain't a drug.
Paracetamol & Ibuprofen don't get you high.. yet they are still drugs no?
October 18, 2012 at 12:59 am, Chris Masko Short said:
I dont think he means that every thing that hes taking makes him extremely high or even high, its just what hes on at the time hes drawing. duh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 02, 2013 at 9:21 am, Thomas Krice said:
I think you guys criticizing Bryan's comment are missing his point. All the other drugs are mind or mood altering substances. Antibiotics are not. The inclusion of them within the list is odd. If this was a "One thing is not like the others" game, the antibiotic would be the answer.
January 15, 2013 at 8:05 am, Greg Seth said:
dude, did you know that it's not psychoactive, and abuse will give the the shits at worst? You could have used the internets before being a douche.
January 15, 2013 at 8:06 am, Greg Seth said:
Chris Masko Short then you want a placebo effect on a list of psychoactive drugs? DUH?
April 30, 2013 at 8:49 am, Matei Coco said:
Or that or if the pills are chopped in really small pieces and then snorted…
October 12, 2012 at 2:45 am, Sunshine Ann said:
That's fucking amazing!
October 12, 2012 at 10:02 pm, John Schreiner said:
this guy is a trooper.
October 13, 2012 at 2:47 pm, Christopher Robin said:
Seems to me like he drew what he thought would be appropriate for the drugs, rather than an honest self portrait that he just so happened to be on drugs for.
October 23, 2012 at 4:48 pm, Natali Victoria Rees said:
i think that's part of what makes it what it is, surely??? you can't take those influences out of your head, especially when your other influences are drugs. lol.
October 23, 2012 at 5:14 pm, Henry Faulkner said:
i think they'd all be really similar if he just tried his best to do an accurate drawing each time, letting only the effects of the drugs affect the outcome. i guess he's more trying to show us how he is feeling, rather than test drawing skills under the influence of different substances.
October 24, 2012 at 3:02 am, Nick Kwasny said:
Yeah… But it seems like the less potent ones were where he pulled that. meaning less debilitating/mindfucking=more cognitive{close to/normal(bored in contrast)}… Also: keep in mind that he already is infatuated with his own self portrait; could very well have ingested the substances for this very reason, and he has artist skillzz…
October 24, 2012 at 6:33 pm, Henry Faulkner said:
i agree, it is a combination of both, the mushroom one in particular feels to me like it may have been what he was actually seeing in the mirror while on the drug.
November 10, 2012 at 8:51 am, Elle Mitchell said:
Natali Victoria Rees
Of course you can…. its biology. Study the brain and you would know!
November 19, 2012 at 8:39 pm, Shayne Farquhar said:
Of course. Let me make a note. Artist should take 25 different drugs and then some criticism on his process. Got it.
January 02, 2013 at 9:18 am, Thomas Krice said:
Man, I was trying to put that thought into words. You did it perfectly. The pictures seem like a reflection of his thoughts about the drug rather than being affected by the use of the drug.
Also, the antibiotic one is weird; that drug doesn't seem like it should be grouped with these as it is not a mind-altering one. And I wish he would have done a Viagra one.
October 13, 2012 at 10:54 am, Бездарность такая Бездарность, » Автопортрет какого-то чувака под 25 разными наркотиками. said:
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October 16, 2012 at 4:16 am, Jessica Dickey said:
Apparently bath salts turn you into the toxic avenger.
October 18, 2012 at 6:38 pm, Zach Shanahan said:
dude did alot of drugs..lol.
October 18, 2012 at 9:10 pm, Chad Rivét said:
holy shit dude this is deeecent haha so dope
October 19, 2012 at 12:34 am, James R Hagey said:
meth is a hell of a drug
April 09, 2013 at 3:44 pm, Nicholas Wille said:
lol no enough though!!
October 18, 2012 at 11:47 pm, Brian McIntyre said:
Mmmmmmmmmm……….Oxymorphone. Hydromorphone. Fentanyl Suckers. Oxycodone. Delish!
October 19, 2012 at 9:13 pm, Samuel Gelardi said:
looks like computer duster is one hell of a drug.
October 20, 2012 at 5:26 am, Eliiza Muir said:
This is so unsettling. Imagine the damage this person has done to their brain and nervous system. This is pure destruction.
November 03, 2012 at 5:50 am, Robb Frank said:
what makes your point of view so valid on drugs and his exploration of art and sense of self through experimentation? pure destruction is the farthest thing from this immaculate recreation of perception through an altered state of consciousness and if you can't see that then maybe your the one with brain damage
November 21, 2012 at 11:28 pm, Tony Slusser said:
Psychedelics are pretty harmless too for the most part, however, the psychological implications are up in the air.
April 17, 2013 at 4:58 am, James Blissenbach said:
not really, with the exception of long term acid abuse, its generally accepted that most psychodelics, mainly ibogaine; psilocybin; and DMT, are quite beneficial to the psychological state of those who use them responsibly.
October 25, 2012 at 9:32 am, Fazlie Nrdin said:
Freaky!
April 19, 2013 at 2:41 pm, Sanjay Velan said:
I bet you have tried half the substances stated above. Hahahaha
October 25, 2012 at 2:36 pm, Elle Mitchell said:
I totally agree Christopher. What a shame… could have been really cool if he had went with what he felt rather than what the expected results are from each drug. Mind you, each time a person takes a drug they have a lot of ability to control the "trip" sort-of-speak since the brain is a powerful thing.
October 26, 2012 at 11:06 pm, Jay Adams said:
I don't even know most of those drugs i am happy to say
October 27, 2012 at 8:23 am, DirtyBaum Baum said:
thats 'cause you dont even bother asking what people are giving you.
October 28, 2012 at 2:39 pm, Alastair Wells said:
was being hospitalised related to this exercise?
November 03, 2012 at 5:53 am, Robb Frank said:
yes i read the article
November 03, 2012 at 12:28 pm, Alastair Wells said:
i didnt
November 01, 2012 at 9:30 am, Gabriel Benţa said:
cephalexin? what the F? that's an antibiotic..
November 10, 2012 at 1:14 am, Sandra Waller said:
Cool.
November 12, 2012 at 7:48 pm, Shandi Hackler said:
Cephalexin is a fucking antibiotic. What a douche.
November 12, 2012 at 9:04 pm, Jean Angle said:
considering the other stuff he's baking his brains on, I'm surprised he could even spell "cephalexin"
December 15, 2012 at 4:40 am, Crystal Disbrow said:
I'm sorry…you're mad he didn't do something hardcore?
January 15, 2013 at 8:06 am, Greg Seth said:
yes, as it is irrelevant when putting it on a list of psychoactive drugs. U MAD?
January 21, 2013 at 2:11 pm, Shandi Hackler said:
I'm just saying this: he has all these portraits he drew while he was high and that antibiotic wont get you high. But this guy is a tard anyway. Huffing lighter fluid and drawing himself and now he's a genius. Bullshit. Get a fucking job.
April 02, 2013 at 4:16 am, Lindsey Alcorn said:
Because your creative talents are so effectively showcased by your picture of a leg. Dont quit your day job.
November 18, 2012 at 11:28 am, Bartłomiej Zhcdy said:
Ever heard about famous Polish artist – Witkacy? He did it first. Genius.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Ignacy_Witkiewicz
November 19, 2012 at 8:44 pm, Shayne Farquhar said:
First? Maybe. As in very probably not.
November 19, 2012 at 4:50 pm, Sean Stiles said:
I swear this cat went to etsu
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November 21, 2012 at 11:27 pm, Tony Slusser said:
No acid or 2Cs?
December 08, 2012 at 1:17 pm, Dion Buckley said:
I knew it was bullshit when i saw marijuana was included. Like really? Lmfao im sure weed makes everyone want to draw munchies and rasta hats. So uncreative.
December 16, 2012 at 3:18 am, Adam Bazil Moskowitz said:
he didn't do heroin, or extasy, or ketamine, or acid or even roofies! some of the best of all.
December 31, 2012 at 9:17 am, Kat Jackson said:
Sweet
January 02, 2013 at 9:19 am, Thomas Krice said:
This guy reminds me of Squidward spending all his free time painting but all he paints is self portraits.
January 21, 2013 at 11:44 am, Caleb Gooslin said:
a lot of them are the basically the same drugs. 4 different types of weed are still just weed. Klonapin, percoset and xanex are basically the same thing. nitrouse oxide and computer duster are the same effectivly. so it's really just 19 different drugs.
March 09, 2013 at 3:44 am, Evan Colling said:
Percocet is an opiate. It's nothing like K-pins and Xanax, which are benzos.
Just had to point that out.
January 23, 2013 at 3:59 am, Jimi Neutron said:
How many of the people with an opinion are actually artists? How many have been under the influence while creating art? Everyone's a fucking critic. Artists creativity changes with their mood. So of course his portraits are going to reflect how he's feeling..
February 05, 2013 at 5:18 pm, Gregory Eric said:
asking people not to state their opinions on a site that says comments is a naive statement
March 22, 2013 at 12:35 pm, Duclos San Joshu said:
Asking someone something isn't a statement. It's a Question.
January 31, 2013 at 6:32 am, Cody Robinson said:
Ha
February 04, 2013 at 3:45 am, Olivia Fett said:
Oh my. Wow.
February 06, 2013 at 10:19 pm, Alea Crider said:
Omg lol
April 02, 2013 at 4:06 am, Lindsey Alcorn said:
Um, the marijuana self portraits don't really have any business in with the rest of them. I'm interested to see how his self perception changes on various drugs. I'm not interested in what he came up with while mearly stoned and obviously making a concious effort to create something others would find interesting….
April 08, 2013 at 12:57 pm, Nick Kausch said:
no lsd?
April 21, 2013 at 10:58 pm, Angelica Maddox said:
the one for bath salts scares the shit out of me.