Does Weed Help You With Your Art?

whitebb2727 · Jul 9, 2015

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 · Jul 9, 2015

whitebb2727 said:
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 · Jul 9, 2015

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 · Jul 9, 2015

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 · Jul 10, 2015

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

danbridge · Jul 12, 2015

Yes weed helps me with my creativity.

MoMoGrows · Jul 23, 2015

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 · Jul 24, 2015

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 · Jul 24, 2015

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 · Jul 24, 2015

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 · Jul 27, 2015

I really love the smoky look!

1mrc · Aug 13, 2015

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 · Aug 18, 2015

Latest finished car

MoMoGrows · Aug 20, 2015

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

1mrc · Aug 20, 2015

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

MoMoGrows · Aug 20, 2015

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 · Aug 20, 2015

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

Bumwhush · Sep 4, 2015

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 · Sep 4, 2015

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 · Sep 4, 2015

dannyboy602 said:
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.

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