It's just a matter of drawing using letters and numbers as the cross-hatching, and if you know how to get some of the fancy characters that aren't on the keyboard, you have a wider range of brush tips, so to speak.
But it's hard. It's sloooooooooow. And lack of copy/paste or insertion point means it's very tedious, sort of virtual cross-stitch.
The easiest way to do it is to use an online ASCII generator to examine a graphic and convert it to the characters that most closely approximate the picture in grayscale. But since copy/paste doesn't work with the World of Text javascript that's remembering what everyone's typing and where, any would-be ASCII artist has to open the ASCII art in one window and then TYPE IT ALL IN BY HAND, making sure not to miss a pixel.
Which is why I haven't done it. I was actually going to do an ASCII Sassyflan to get things rolling (with proper credit, of course), but I am laaaazy.
Someone is NOT lazy and has given us a few lovely ASCII arts. I admire, but wouldn't have the patience.
They're a throwback to my youth, since ASCII art was an art form in the early days of email and computers, before actual graphics capabilities had gotten past limited colors and piss-poor resolution.
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But it's hard. It's sloooooooooow. And lack of copy/paste or insertion point means it's very tedious, sort of virtual cross-stitch.
The easiest way to do it is to use an online ASCII generator to examine a graphic and convert it to the characters that most closely approximate the picture in grayscale. But since copy/paste doesn't work with the World of Text javascript that's remembering what everyone's typing and where, any would-be ASCII artist has to open the ASCII art in one window and then TYPE IT ALL IN BY HAND, making sure not to miss a pixel.
Which is why I haven't done it. I was actually going to do an ASCII Sassyflan to get things rolling (with proper credit, of course), but I am laaaazy.
Someone is NOT lazy and has given us a few lovely ASCII arts. I admire, but wouldn't have the patience.
They're a throwback to my youth, since ASCII art was an art form in the early days of email and computers, before actual graphics capabilities had gotten past limited colors and piss-poor resolution.