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The Mushroom Effect; Second Part of the Sketchbook

Part two of the Shroom Sketchbook.

Let's get started shall we?

Drawing eleven. 

                     

Moose head, really, really, up close. 

Drawing twelve is a great representation of the peak of the trip. 

There is enough going on in this one drawing to fill another notebook. 

From what I can tell, it's a cat... or a dog. 

I wrote "shrooms" on the right side of the page as though you wouldn't be able to tell that I was on drugs. 

I see a leaf on the bottom center.  In the corner there are these squiggles with smiles and text that reads, "We are water drops, we drop the water." Who knew that shrooming made you so deep.   

Drawing thirteen.

Torpedo bird and flying sky island. At this point I'm starting to come down from the trip...sort of.

Drawing fourteen. 

Snake creature swallowing an egg.

Drawing fifteen.

Another dinosaur like head, and an evil sperm.

Drawing sixteen.

This drawing is a little existential. 

Drawing seventeen.

Cat made of noodles?

Drawing eighteen.

Can you tell that I took anatomy classes in college? Because I can't.

Drawing nineteen.

Where to begin, where to begin? 

The little fat thing off to the side is really cute.

The totem pole creature that gave birth to that ferret fetus concerns me.  

Drawing twenty.

Teddy bear lying on the beach with a hole in its head. Gunshot wound? Why would someone shoot a teddy bear?

Drawing twenty one.

Crazy contorted cat. 

The end of the sketchbook.

The lesson to take from all of this is that drugs are bad. 

The Mushroom Effect; First Set of Drawings

Some years ago I was going through a psychedelic mushroom phase.

I found a sketchbook with drawings I made while I was heavily hallucinating. I thought I'd share the results of that trip... as a deterrent for taking drugs.

This was the first drawing

I do not remember drawing this. It appears to be an alcoholic taxidermy reindeer. 

p.s. drugs are bad. 

Here's the second drawing from the Shroom Sketchbook.

I guess, that while I was tripping I felt it necessary to write a brief description of the drawing. 

"Monk child in furry coat hovers over plains." 

Wow... really?

Again drugs are bad. 

Third drawing in the sketchbook.

Are blimps fast? I don't think that they are. Why did I write "zoosh?"

Looks more like a bomb. 

The perspective squares and triangles are kinda cool.

Fourth drawing

Dinosaur fossil with a mohawk. I must have been tripping through the Cretaceous punk period. I'm not so ashamed of this drawing.

Drawing five, where things start taking a turn.

An off-centered, one-eyed horned character waving. 

With writing that reads, "In the world of the blind, the one eyed, slightly going to the right, is king."  

Sixth drawing, this is a disturbing one. 

Devil like creature breathing fire, and burning down a village. 

At this point, I can only imagine that my mushroom trip is starting to really take off.  

Drawing Seven.

Melting lizard creature with human hands, what the hell? 

Drugs are super bad.

Drawing Eight.

Your guess is as good as mine... But things were probably really weird for me at this point.

Drawing Nine.

Apparently Dick Chenney shot this bird egg head thing. 

Drawing Ten.

I've been trying to make heads and tails of this. I'm convinced that only an extreme amount of therapy could determine what this could be.

I'm just relieved that all these sketches were the result of some highly potent fungi. 

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