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how to do it
Art isn't really my strong point. I'm quite helpless with traditional
paper-and-pencil drawing. Ascii art appealed to the puzzle-solver in me, with a
little help from an aesthetic sense that I accidentally picked up from
somewhere. Probably from reading too many books. Or maybe a virus.
To make an ascii picture, I'd start with an interesting idea or a constraint
(``turn this photo into a 6-line ascii picture''), throw down a couple dots and
semicolons, stare at the shapeless blob, poke it a bit, try using `m's instead
of `j's, stare at it some more, distract myself with pinball, mirror-reverse
the picture in the hope that the `j's look better that way, stare at it again,
then throw it all out.
Anyone could do the same. You just need time, patience, persistence, a little
bit of a perfectionist streak, and time. Did I mention patience?
Oh, and a how-to-draw book might be helpful if your parents didn't give you a
brain module that can automatically project a 3-dimensional object onto a
2-dimensional surface. (One book that's pretty good is Drawing on the Right
Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards.)
Everything else is just style and technique.
If you don't want to invent your own style and technique, you can borrow
someone else's for a while. The Ascii Art FAQ has a few ideas free for the
taking.
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felix lee / home / ascii art 1999-02-04
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mirrors/
├── afn
│   ├── ABOUT.txt
│   └── artists
│   ├── adams.txt
│   ├── andersso.txt
│   ├── andrea.txt
│   ├── atkinson.txt
│   ├── bellj.txt
│   ├── bellsue.txt
│   ├── berigan.txt
│   ├── bger.txt
│   ├── birk.txt
│   ├── brace.txt
│   ├── buffphoo.txt
│   ├── burchbin.txt
│   ├── campbell.txt
│   ├── carlile.txt
│   ├── carrion.txt
│   ├── carter.txt
│   ├── chambers.txt
│   ├── chatsurf.txt
│   ├── cheryl.txt
│   ├── coles.txt
│   ├── crawford.txt
│   ├── daisylin.txt
│   ├── dangelo.txt