Re: Alternative uses of ascii art

Pete Casso ha scritto nel messaggio <367...@sympatico.ca>...
>Laura, I think you will have more luck with socalled "solid style" than
>"line style" ascii art. Solid style ascii art is analogous to brush
>painting, filling in areas. Line style ascii art is analogous to pencil
>drawing, tracing outlines. Allen Mullen has done great solid style ascii
>art, search the web for his site.

Yep i was talkin about solid ascii-art, even though I didn't know there was
a difference in terms, I just see it as 2 different ways to ascii-draw.
Line art is stitchable too, but you should stick to straight lines, i.e. no
() things, if you could draw something with -_/\| only it could make a great
backstitch (i.s. x-stitch by filling the square sides and diagonals)


><grin> Here is someone who understands that ascii art as an artform is
>independent from medium. The ascii art here will live in a cross-stitch
>medium! <very big grin>



Well here again I never thought there was a doubt. The only limit of ascii
art is that it only looks great on the screen, now that we have been spoiled
by photoshop layers and photo-quality printers. I remember how astonished I
was when my mom did me a Xmas card with an ascii (no,  it was a mechanic
typewriter, ascii probably didn't exist yet) with a Xmas tree made out of
the word merry christmas. I was 5 years old and it was the 70's, so ascii
art is a memory of childhood to me. That's why I keep trying to bring it
back to real life by stitching :))

ciao ciao

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