This is all kinds of cool, and everything your mother told you not to do. Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist from Washington D.C., not just any artist though. Saunders prefers to take a more unconventional approach to his artwork.

Arguably his most interesting project, entitled DRUGS is described as follows:

“After experiencing drastic changes in my environment, I looked for other experiences that might profoundly affect my perception of the self. So I devised another experiment where everyday I took a different drug and drew myself under the influence. Within weeks I became lethargic and suffered mild brain damage. I am still conducting this experiment but over greater lapses of time. I only take drugs that are given to me.” 

Below, you can view a collection of portraits Saunders drew while under the influence of various substances ranging from cocaine, to marijuana, to DMT. Each portrait is an astonishing look into the mind of someone tweaked out on drugs, something that your eyes will surely appreciate.

Abilify/Xanax/Ativan

90mg Abilify

1 sm Glass of “Real” Absinthe

10mg Adderall

10mg Ambien

Bath Salts

10mg Buspar (snorted)

4 Butalbitals

Butane Honey Oil

250mg Cephalexin

1/2 gram of Cocaine

Computer Duster (2 squirts)

2 bottles of Cough Syrup

1 bump of Crystal Meth

4mg of Dilaudid

1 shot of Dilaudid/3 shots of Morphine

DMT

60mg Geodon

Hash

Huffing Gas

Huffing Lighter Fluid

7.5mg Hydrocodone / 7.5mg Oxycodone / 3mg Xanax

3mg Klonopin

10mg Loritab

Marijuana (Kine Bud)

G13 Marijuana

Morphine IV

Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset)

2mg Nicotine Gum

Nitrous Oxide

Nitrous Oxide/Valium IV

PCP

7.5mg Percocet

2 Pot Brownies

1 glass of Pruno

Marijuana Resin

4mg Risperdol

Ritilin (dosage unknown - snorted)

Salvia Divinorum (right before but mostly right after)

100mg Seroquel

100mg Trazadone

20mg Valium

Valium I.V. (dosage unknown in hospital)

Valium IV (Albuterol, Saline, & Oxygen) Mixture

2mg Xanax

50mg Zoloft (after 2 weeks prescribed)

10mg Zyprexa

Ativan / Haloperidol (dosage unknown in hospital)

(Source: cultso.com)