Does Weed Help You With Your Art?

[whitebb2727]

Does anyone else doodle to problem solve? I can find myself talking on the phone or working on something and I'll have a whole page drawn.

I did it in school. The border of homework or test would have drawings. Funny thing is middle and highschool discouraged it. They would tell me I need to show my work. It was my work, that's how my mind work.

In college though, it was encouraged. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

 

[torontoke]

Does anyone else doodle to problem solve? I can find myself talking on the phone or working on something and I'll have a whole page drawn.

I did it in school. The border of homework or test would have drawings. Funny thing is middle and highschool discouraged it. They would tell me I need to show my work. It was my work, that's how my mind work.

In college though, it was encouraged. There is more than one way to skin a cat.

I have a sketchbook beside my tv table that has to have 10 000 things in it. I love to doodle and design all sorts of things while i do other shit.
I have house layouts furniture wacky inventions lol and just about anything else u could think of lol

I used to do the same thing in school too

 

[Indagrow]

I find that it's great once I have my main idea down.. Coloring high is ideal I can stop and look at the gestalt otherwise I just breeze through and loose track of where I'm trying to draw the eye. But in the sketching stage I like to be clear headed and stick to my I guess formula? Hah hate to use that word with art

 

[torontoke]

Ya i love coloring while medicated too lol i started a big piece the other day after posting in this thread.
Using shitty markers and pencil crayons ive had for twenty years.

 

[BuddyGetHigh2]

It's interesting that some people like to start stoned and do the detail straight and others work vice versa.

 

[danbridge]

Yes weed helps me with my creativity.

 

[MoMoGrows]

If I'm drawing seriously or realistically I can't be smoking. Which I don't really do much of that stuff anymore. I love to doodle, and definately prefer doodling stoned whether it be small stuff in the corner of class notes or full page things like this one.

 

[BuddyGetHigh2]

These are rad - you should put up some non-weed art that you did so we can see the comparison!

I ran into these dude outside a club the other night and he was showing me some of his art. We started talking about weed and art and he said he doesn't smoke it that much but it helps him relax when he does his thing. I've been on his site checking his stuff out and it's pretty crazy.

I really liked this one too:

I just took this off his site www.seth-styles.com (I don't own the rights to these images). He said weed maybe helped him with the details.

 

[MoMoGrows]

I appreciate the kind words. I'll see if I can dig up some older stuff that might be a little more technical. I would really love to do my own comic books at some point.

Oh yea I like that guys stuff!

 

[MoMoGrows]

So here are a few sober ones from a number of years ago when I was learning charcoal. 1-Was bored and got in the tub and drew it. 2-Forgot to do my drawing assignment and did this in like 10 mins, was supposed to be chuck Norris on the cover of walker Texas ranger...I know not the best but not bad for ten mins. And a couple others. Still looking for note/sketch books.

 

[BuddyGetHigh2]

I really love the smoky look!

 

[1mrc]

Yes, it helps with the creativity. I'm on those side who sink into the details.
Or as I've said always - weed helps focus.

 

[1mrc]

Latest finished car

 

[MoMoGrows]

@1mrc what medium do you use? I would airbrush...

 

[1mrc]

I work in Inkscape, it's a vector program like Illustrator. I'm using Ubuntu OS, so no Adobe products for me.

 

[MoMoGrows]

Oh rock on. I was almost going to guess comp but didn't want to insult you if it was airbrush or oil paints. You got skillz bro! I used to be a wiz at photo shop back in the day and had started learning illustrator. But I haven't touched those since about 2000. Keep it up man!

 

[1mrc]

Thanks! Sooner or later I'll be posting more for sure.

 

[Bumwhush]

I'm a professional artist based out of Portland, Oregon where I sell my works at Portland Saturday Market. I find smoking Sativa strains help tremendously with creativity and staying focused. I have no problem working without it, art is something that takes experience, the more time you spend making art or being creative, the easier it becomes to turn it on. Smoking does help calm my mind and let's me sometimes see my work in a different light. Keeping me focused is what I enjoy the most from smoking, I have way too many ideas floating around and being high lets me focus on one idea at a time. I highly suggest sativa strains for all artists!

 

[dannyboy602]

Ya know...I should try smoking and painting again...I tried it a couple times and it didn't work out for me. I'm just strange. What I find I do best when I smoke is...CLEAN. I'm a cleaning mother fucker when I'm stoned. Anybody else notice that?

 

[Bumwhush]

Ya know...I should try smoking and painting again...I tried it a couple times and it didn't work out for me. I'm just strange. What I find I do best when I smoke is...CLEAN. I'm a cleaning mother fucker when I'm stoned. Anybody else notice that?

Yes, most definitely. And it makes yard work more enjoyable too.