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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 May 2000.
Re: can you improve this ?

Re: can you improve this ?

Hello,

I am new to ascii art.  I don't intend this to sound rude.  But why
does it matter if a character is not on the ascii chart?  I thought
there were 256 characters in the ascii set anyways...

On Thu, 25 May 2000 17:52:50 GMT, ppu...@damnspam.chello.nl (Peter
Punk) wrote:

>On Thu, 25 May 2000 12:17:31 +0200, Prenom Nom
><pre...@tlsmXX.tls1.siemens.net> provoked the following text:
>
>>Hello, those "picts" are my first attempt at ASCII-art... just for fun
>>:)
>>
>>I wonder if anybody here can improve those lil "characters"... maybe
>>I'll make stories with them... I am sure this can be fun..
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>
>>
>>    ('}                  
>>    |@----                                   
>>    | |      
>>    ( #--    
>>  __| |       
>> |__| |        
>> '  | |
>>    '~~
>>
>>     
>>    _(")_  
>>   /\###/\
>>  / |   | \
>>    \ ' /  
>>    | � |
>>    |.|.|
>>    | | |
>>    ~~ ~~ 
>>
>>
>>      ###                                         
>>     ##(")_                      
>>    #/(.(.)\                                   
>>    '--) (--'          
>>      ( . )         
>>     / /"\ \         
>>    /./   \.\           
>>   / /     \ \  
>>   ~~       ~~  
>>
>>      ###                                         
>>     ##(")_                      
>>    #/(.(.)\                                   
>>    '--) (--'          
>>      ( . )         
>>      | " |        
>>      |.|.|           
>>      | | |       
>>      ~~ ~~  
>>
>>    ##
>>   #('}                  
>>  ##|@)---                                   
>>    | |       
>>    ( #    
>>  __| |       
>> |__| |        
>> '  | |
>>    '~~
>
>I don't see how they can be improved, for someone who just has taken up
>ASCII-art it's quite impressive to see that you already have developed your own
>style!
>Don't try to imitate other people, the way you draw is perfect and recognisable
>and that's the mark of a real artist.
>
>There's only one thing, in the second figure from the top, you used a "�" and
>that's not a part of the ASCII-table but of your characterset.
>Try to find another char for that and you'll be okay.

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