Talk: Questions for ascii artists

Parzival <ga...@ksu.ksu.edu> wrote:
>
>Hey all--
>
>After showing a couple of ascii images to a friend of mine, she had the
>following questions.  My own ascii stuff tends to be rather primitive and
>utilitarian, so I thought I'd pass these questions on to more talented 
>and experienced folks.
>
>     My hobby self finds both samples of ascii art intriguing.  
>     I'm reminded of cross stitching and light brite, which makes me
>     wonder:
>
>	1)  How many ascii images are basic images that are passed around, 
>	    adapted, modified?

   A lot of ASCII art gets passed around and modified.  While it is 
technically copyrighted, most artists don't care if you pass their pics 
around as long as you leave their credit on the piece.

   If you are going to use a pic for commercial purposes, than you should 
contact the artist and get permission, pay for it, etc.

   As to modifying art, some of us don't mind that as long as you make it 
clear who the artists involved are.

>	2)  Where/how does one learn the principles of ascii art?  
>            Are there patterns the same way there are patterns
>	    for cross stitching?  Or is all of this kind of "free-handed"?

   There are 'how-to' files by some of our best artists available at my 
FTP-Gopher-Web site.  And I've put a few pointers in the FAQ, which is 
also available at:

http://gagme.wwa.com/~boba/scarecrow.html
gopher://gopher.wwa.com (select #3)
ftp://ftp.wwa.com/pub/Scarecrow

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