Re: HOW you do it?

RYAN MCGUIRE (mcg...@fiber.net) wrote:
: hey artists, I was just wondering how you make ascii art. do you just
: use a text editor?  if you do that seems pretty hard to me, at least
: for the more complex ones i've seen. if you want to respond here it
: is- mcg...@fiber.net

I myself use a gif=>ascii converter to give me a base, then I edit that 
picture in DOS edit (in typeover mode). I usualy have a picutre of 
whatever I'm editing beside me for refrence. I understand others use 
clear plastic, draw on that, and put it on their staticy screens, then 
type under it. Others use a piece of graph paper, draw on it, then fill 
in the pattern on the paper and copy it to the screen (this is what I 
suspect the Dutch Dude does.) If you want you pictures to look good it is 
strongly sugested that you use blending character, for instance, since 
the double quotes (") only take up the upperhalf, they can be used as a 
half step, and the lower-case (m) takes up the lower half making it perfect 
for the inverse of the ("). Play around, look at others art, and give it 
a try.

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 /================ e-mail: jla...@mosquito.frcc.cccoes.edu =====___n___===\
 || \      oo  Joseph Larson ||      TARDIS EXPRESS: When it     |__|__|  ||
 ||  \____|\mm    J(O/SE)^ph || really has to be there YESTERDAY |[]|[]|  ||
 \===//_//\ \_\==================================================|[]|[]|===/
    /K-9/  \/_/   "There's nothing out there you can't do,       |[]|[]|JaL
   /___/_____\     Yea, even Santa Claus believes in you!"       =======

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