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made offensive of course), just take heed to the suggestions and
bear them in mind for your future pictures.
* Textual Suggestion
Someone may make a suggestion like 'try to smooth out the corners
with a full stop', or 'try using a | instead of a : for vertical
lines'. These are just friendly suggestions, which you may choose to
bear in mind when you create future pictures.
Whether everyone loves your pic, or they offer suggestions, you should
still continue to produce more pics. Remember practice makes, if not
perfect, at least pretty good!
-._.-> Learning from others
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The best way to learn is by example. Take a look at the ascii art in
alt.ascii-art. Note how different artists have used certain characters
to produce different shapes.
You can try some of the techniques used by other artists, and will
probably develop your own 'style' of ascii art. You can see differences
between how each artists create ascii art, some are subtle while others
are blatently obvious. Just practice and you'll get there!
-._.-> In conclusion
"""""""""""""
Anyone can create ASCII Art with a little perseverance. If you find
yourself bitten by the ASCII Art bug, please post your pictures to
alt.ascii-art - we'd love to see them!
File: academy/tutorials/tut_au.txt
https://web.archive.org/web/19990427090024/http://users.inetw.net/~mullen/auteach.htm
From: dcau@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Daniel Au)
Date: 4 Oct 1995 15:47:46 -0500
I just wrote this now in response to an email sent to me asking how
I did my ASCII artwork. I responded by writing a brief walkthrough
of my thought processes (well, kind of) and just wanted to share
them on the group. Let's see more people try to make create their
own new artwork instead of requesting for the old stuff all the
time. It'll make for a better newsgroup overall and everyone will
benefit! -- Daniel
= ASCII art tips and example ==
Try practicing to make your own artwork by just typing on the
keyboard, which is what I do (I work just using the DOS text editor
which comes along with any MSDOS machine. Any text editor will do.)
Begin by basic shapes. For example, if you're making an animal -
say a giraffe - let's start with the head:
__.ii,
(__," |
| |
basically simple shapes to make it look approximately like it does
in real life (as best as you can, at least, in this case I've
cartooned it a bit :-) The " is making up the eyes, the . and , the
ears and a smile. The i i are those antennae like things on top of
their heads (if I remember correctly). I usually like to keep my
artwork within the size of a screen. Since a giraffe is a tall
animal, I'm keeping the details smaller. Then continue on with the
body and some legs. Try to do a rough outline.
__.ii,
(__," |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |------------,
/ \\
| |\
|,._ |,______\ |||
|| //' || || |
|| (( || || |
|| `\\ || || M
|| \\ || ||
/_| /_| /_| /_|
It's best to add some . and , in order to smooth out some of the
edges. Then the tail is in the back. Then add the detail - hair on
the neck and spots on the body.
__.ii,
(__," |%
| #%
| |%
| #%
# |%
| |%
| |%-----------,
/ ### ##### \\
|#### """" ### |\
|,._ |,_###__\ |||
|| //' || || |
|| (( || || |