Re: starting ascii art

Nic Hart wrote in message <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
>
>

Dear Nic,

    Any idiot can make asky art pichers.  If you doan believe me, try
e-mailing a few of the reg'ler posters fer a while.  You will be sur-prised
how many is actual ijiots.  I reckon I wood suggest you do this:  find
some kinder picher you like, and look at it.  See how it are made.  Then try
to make one kinder like it, your own se'f.  Ere try to make one sorter like
it.  You might also want to look at makin' sum small stuff.  Look:

             \  <--- this is a slash-stroke

              \,  <--- now it's one with ah ol' comma attached

            \,/  <--- now it are a bird (if you use a bit of imagination)

Look how I make this here easy dawg:

            //  <--- more slashes

           //\\\ <--- a lot more

           //\\\
          //o o\\  <--- o's make good eyes

         //\\\
        //o o\\
        /=(o)=\
        ///U\\\    <--- now it are a dawg face



            //\\\
           //o o\\
           /=(o)=\
           ///U\\\     <--- and a whole dawg
           \\\\///
           /// \\\
           \\\ ///
           (_) (_)

       See, it din't take much, acutally.


       Try some things like houses, which are easy to outline.


                /\    <--- apex of ah ol' roof

               /\
              /==\
             /____\       <--- whole roof (I hate roofin', doan you?)

              /\
             /==\
            /____\
            | __ |        <--- not much of ah house, but that oughter
            |_||_|             be enuff to show you how easy it are.


          A simple tree:

                  /\      <--- same kinder thang as above

                /\
               //\\       <--- it grew into ol' pine tree
                ||


       You kin do this here asky thang, if'n you wants to.  It doan take
much practisin', and you doan even haff to be ah ijiot to do it.

                              Good luck,
                                JRO

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