All three of those are about as crazy fucking awesome as psychedelic art can ever possibly be. You, my friend, are a straight up master. It must rock to walk around in your shoes.

What is your technique? The second one is digital, yes?

Thanks Art!

For anyone interested, some workflow:

Top one is acrylic, large (4.5x5.5'. The entire composition was done in Bryce, same program I did those tile patterns in. Tinted the canvas gray, projected and traced the design with colored pencil... Then 3-4 acrylic passes, very thin layers, with thin applications of gloss medium/varnish in between. Maybe 2 weeks digital, 2 months analog.

Second one is even bigger, close to 4x6'. For this one I spent a couple years collecting photos of the sky at its most glorious, always at around the same time of day. The vibrating crystal was another Bryce creation, but the finished result was very crude and pixilated- really just a map of points in space. I took that into Photoshop and traced over it with the Path Tool, taking care not to distort any of the arcs. This took a week or so- and generating the crystal had taken even longer. Eventually it was clean enough to composite with the cloud images- another 3-4 days there. Tinted the canvas in a blue acrylic gradient, then projected and traced the image with white colored pencil (10 days) before going over the whole thing with gesso and a fine brush to get the vibrations as perfect as possible (2 more weeks). Once this was done I attacked the whole thing with oil paint for another 2 weeks. Probably 3 months total.

Third one was even more complicated, believe it or not. For this one I built the thing out of clay in the garage- the model spilled out of an 8x8x9' frame, so it was huge. 400 pounds of clay, papier mâché,tin foil and copper hose. Painted the model, set up a bunch of rice steamers and other steam making implements, set up a bunch of colored lights and then had my photo shoot. The two uppermost heads had to be built separately- for those I built only half of each head but built it against a mirror so the reflection would complete its symmetry- that allowed for higher precision. I then tinted a canvas gray (big: 62x78" and projected/traced it before completing it in oil. 4 months building model, 2 months painting it.

So yeah, all three of these required a lot of steps to achieve the look they have... Any level of realism in these kinds of visionary works calls for these kinds of labor consumptive efforts. I guess I'm just a sucker for complicated projects.

Dude.. wow, amazing stuff u got there congrats... just addin u to watch from deviant art
Peace

This thread blows my mind... You guys are incredibly talented.

Guyomech encouraged me to post here too, so here goes.

The first one is my first evar psychedelic drawing from about a year ago when I had the chance to try some mescaline. It might look simple but its very special to me lol.

The second one is a drawing I made a few months ago on HBWR, I had electricity running all over my body with huge euphoria while I was drawing it. A few days ago I decided to trace it in photoshop and add some effects. I wanted to keep polishing it forever but I don't have alot of time so here it is, in some sort of acceptable state maybe.

I don't have alot of other psychedelic things yet but I love doing that kind of stuff and am learning alot of new things about photoshop. So I'd like to create some new ones, especially with DMT influence. Also I just created a new deviantart account, there's some old random stuff. http://daedaloops.deviantart.com

edit: hmm the order of the attachments seems to change on its own, anyway the mescaline one is the smaller one

Guyomech, the top one kind of has a Rodney Matthews vibe to it. Incredible composition.

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Macre

Still declaring myself as daedaloops biggest fan. . Love this thread. So much AWESOME talent here at the Nexus.

Macre- I looked up Rodney Matthews... Interesting comparison, I can definitely see a similar vibe in the shape language.

Daedaloops- those are both really cool, I like the flow and rhythm of the first one a lot. If you don't mind my saying, when I look at these compared to the Nexus banner you created, it looks to me like you really took a leap forward with that piece, both in concept and in execution. I don't like choosing favorites, but it's one of mine. Can't wait to see more new stuff! Did you also create your avatar?

Thanks, and yea I did put more effort into the banner, but I can't really take credit for the concept. lol I mean it feels like it was shown to me in hyperspace and I just tried to reproduce it. And yeah the avatar is another silly thing I made, you can see it animated in the deviantart link.

Also I'll say it again in here, I really love your work. And now that I think about it I've seen them around the internet too, so I guess you're famous.


BTW, why is there no Music Bin? I've noticed quite a few nexians who make awesome music, so where can I find them ?

Good call... You want to start the thread?

Well I'm working on a track right now, so if nobody beats me to it before I finish it, then sure.

Some doodlings i collaged together tonight. Not the best quality and pale in comparison to some of the amazing-ness already here.

Hey, it's about the content, not the polish...

Looks like a catalog of entity portraits!

A lot of amazing art here!

Here's something I drew on my leg with a sharpie in the midst of a recent 7g mushroom trip

That looks like a shaman's tattoo...

First new piece i've made in a long long time.

Still lots of tweaks and finishing touches to do to it but i'm happy with it so far

if only i had more Ram and hd space i could animate it!

D-T-R: love it, that's a really beautiful, fresh and different approach. The fine vector action goes really well with the flat black and white graphics. Usually it's hard to combine elements that are as visually different as these in a way that looks this seamless and cohesive. And compositionally it really sucks you straight in.

Post more!

Zip: thanks, glad to be of service!

Thanks Guyomech, especially coming from such a great artist such as yourself!

And yeah- i believe the white and black works.My original intention was to have the white coloured in jungle colours but it didn't seem to work after putting the rest of the background together.

i think i posted a few earlier in the thread-- you can find some more on my website which i'll pm to you.

I Look forward in seeing your new creations too

Damn... I was taking a break... and boy have you folks came out of the woodwork! Absolutely awash with talent in here!

while all your guys's art is boss i have to mention guyomech; holy shit man your art is the bees knees. i don't consider myself an artist at all especially when it comes to drawing but here is 2 potential tattoo ideas. 1st is a dead head caduceus yin yang, 2nd is my take on the gonzo symbol, no need for the knife.

Today is exactly 50 years since first man in modern era left THE EARTH!
And i did some photoshop on old poster

It says "DMT IN NAME OF THE WORLD!" and congratulate the International Day of Cosmonautics!