[pic] a face - 2 versions

celebrating my one-week anniversary!  heh.  notes below.


                        ..ooooOOoooo.. 
                  ..odOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObo.. 
             ..odOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOObo.. 
          .dOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOb. 
         dOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOb 
       .dOOOOOOOY ****OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO**** YOOOOOOOOOOb. 
     .dOOOOOOOO*                          0OOOOOOOOOOOb. 
   .dOOOOOOOO*         .el      le.        YOOOOOOOOOOOb. 
  .dOOOOOO*       .eXXXXXY*    *YXXXXe.     \OOOOOOOOOOO0 
 (OOOOOO*       \XXXY*             *YXXX/     *OOOOOOOOOO) 
  0OOO*      .dMMMMMMMMb.         .dOOOOOOOOb.  *OOOOOOOO 
  *OO*     .MMMMAnMMMMMMMM.    .dMDaMMMMMMMMMMM. *OOOOOO* 
   *Y_____dMMMMMMMubMMMMMMMo___oMMMMrkMMMMMMMMMM.__YOOO* 
   dXXXXXXMMMMMMMMMMisMMMMMMXXXMMMMMMMwoMMMMMMMMMXXXXXXb 
   H      *MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*   *MMMMMMMModMMMMM*       H 
   H        *YMMMMMMMMMMY*       *YMMMMMMMMMMY*        H 
   H            ******               ******            H 
   H.                                                 .H 
   *b            o                       o            d* 
    b            \SS.                 .SS/            d 
    *b            \SSSo.           .oSSS/            d* 
     *b            \SSSSSSo.....oSSSSSS/            d* 
      *b.           *YSSSSSSSSSSSSSSY*            .d* 
        b.            *YSSSSSSSSSSY*             .d 
         *b.            *YSSSSSSY*             .d* 
           *b.              **               .d* 
              *b.                         .d* 
                 *bo.                 .od* 
                      **boo.   .ood** 
                            ***  


lately one of my favourite things to do is take a 
good-looking character from a dingbats font i like
and ascii it.  this one is based on the 'y' fron the 
"Expressions JL" font by Jeffery N Levine, (c) 1997*
i created this one with my favourite "watermark" method
in MS Publisher 97, then diddled in EditPad.
this is the first time i put a lot of thought into what
letters to use beyond just what would make the best-
looking shapes.  as well as shading, i considered style.  
the O's in the hair suggest a possible 'fro or perm.  
both the eyebrows and the sunglasses arms/nosepiece are 
X's because both are very rectangular.  the M's for the 
sunglasses lenses i chose mostly for the shading, and 
the S for the mouth because it's a Smile!  the outline 
of the face from the sunglasses down, however, i had to 
choose based solely on shape.  and lastly, i decided to 
make my sig angular in the sunglasses to sort of give 
the illusion of a slight glare.
this one didn't take much longer than the other ones 
i've done so far, but it was a bit more of a challenge.

* - if you're looking for the font, i think i got i from 
www.fontfreak.com and the filename is "xprssion.ttf", 
so don't go insane looking through the E's.

aaaaaaand just for the sake of comparison, here's an 
image2ascii version created with JavE (sigged and 
somewhat diddled in EditPad):

                          ...........
                    ..dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMb..
              ..JNMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNg..
          ..gMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN,.
        .JMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMJavEMMMMMMp
       .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM+MMMMMMMe
     .dMMMMMMMMF?7""WMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMYWMMMMAnubisMMN.
   .JMMMMMMMMMB'                           .MMMDarkwoodMMN,
  .MMMMMMMMMB^        ...m     .Mg,.        JMMMMMMMMMMMMMN
.MMMMMMMMM"       ..gMMMMMt    7MMMMMa,.     ,HMMMMMMMMMMMMp
dMMMMMMD'      ,MMMMM#"^          ?"MMMMMm     ?MMMMMMMMMMM#
MMMMMD       ..gMMMNNg.,           ..+MMMNNgJ.. .HMMMMMMMMM#
dMMMD     .dMMMMMMMMMMMMMa.     ..MMMMMMMMMMMMMN, TMMMMMMMMF
 HMF     JMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMe   .MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMN.?MMMMMM@
 .MJJJJJJMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM+JJMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMhJJMMMMN
 d#HHHHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM#HHHHHDM|
 M\      TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMD    MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM#'      dr
 M:        WMMMMMMMMMMMMM@'      TMMMMMMMMMMMMM#"        JF
 M;          ?"YMMMMM""!            ?THMMMMY"^           dF
 Mr                                                      dF
 Jb            .J.                        .g            .M!
 YM,            TMN,                   .JM#!            JF
  db             ?MMMa.             ..MMM@             .M'
   Wb             JMMMMMa.        .MMMMMF             .Mt
    Wp              MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMt             .M$
     Uh.             UMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM#!             .M3
      ?N,              WMMMMMMMMMMMM^              .#'
        Th.              TMMMMMMM#^              .M3
          TN,               ?MM!               .M"
            TNa.                            .g#^
               TNg,.                    ..N#"
                  ?TWNa+............+gM9"!
                         Y7MMMMMM7Y


while JavE's image2ascii conversion is handy, i find 
i have trouble diddling the results, because there are
so many things that are a lot different than how i 
would do it, if i wanted to do a good job i'd end up 
basically redoing the whole thing, so instead i just 
do a minor cleanup of stray apostrophes and fix edges 
a bit.

okay, so i decided to be long-winded today.  get used 
to it!  :P