Re: starting ascii art

>Message-id: <915...@Chaos.es.co.nz>
>im starting doing ascii art and cant seem to get the handle of it. Can
>someone give me some advice or give me some basic pictures to try
>thanx

Welcome to a-a-a...
Have you read the newsgroup's FAQ?
Have you read any of the tutorials?
Can you show us some of your attempts at ASCII art?

My suggestions to budding ASCII artists
are the following:

                   -- look at as many ASCII pictures that you can 
                    -- identify how the characters are used in those pictures 
                    -- duplicate an "already-made" picture -  
                    - copy it line by line or section by section 
                    -- modify an existing picture 
                    -- start small- perhaps doodle and see what it looks like, 

                     and go from there  
                     --use a model or picture as a guideline 
                    -- read the tutorials and the FAQ 
                    -- post your pictures for critique (or send them to a
friend for critique) 
                    -- keep at it and have fun... <--- most important! 

And be forewarned-- it is addicting!  :)

some URLs for you:
FAQ/tutorials: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/faq.htm
ASCII Art links:  http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/2695/links.htm

-joan
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