ASCII art, anyone?

[jumpywinghim]

I recently (about a few hours ago or so) took a liking to ASCII art. So, I now want to see what kind of ASCII art that the average forum-goer can spring up with! Be creative, go wild! I'm stuck making swords for the moment, since I just began with my interest, but hopefully I can create other things.

Oh, and it would generally be a good idea to spoiler anything you make that turns out rather...big.

For anyone who has no idea what I'm talking about in this thread:
ASCII art is basically pictures created using the letters, numbers and symbols of your keyboard. How good it looks depends on the font used; Arial is quite good.

Forgive me if this definition turns out as being way off, but it's essentially what I'm looking for in this thread.

Here's my first attempt:

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Your going to have to...string it out with dashes or something, like I did, because huge spaces don't get registered here. I also advise previewing a lot.

[Astrella]

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You can use code tags to get the spaces to show up.

[KuReshtin]

I'm pretty sure this should be in the Arts & Crafts thread, if anything.
Since it deals with... You know.. ASCII Art.

[Manga Shoggoth]

There is quite a lot of this stuff around - there is (somewhere) an image of the Mona Lisa (I used to have a copy at Univerity, but alas, lost it).

[Mauve Shirt]

I stumbled upon this a while ago.

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[KuReshtin]

I stumbled upon this a while ago.

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*snip*

Oh look! It's Winnie the Pooh!
Well, obviously it isn't.

[Deth Muncher]

Oh look! It's Winnie the Pooh!

*smacks*

I find that many of the game guides on Game FAQs have rather good ASCII art at the beginning, though it's usually just a recreation of the logo for the game.

EDIT: I've also seen the famous "Picard Facepalm" ASCII-ized.

Oh, and another question: How do you pronounce ASCII? Do you just spell it out, or is it "ASK-y"?

[Castaras]

*smacks*

I find that many of the game guides on Game FAQs have rather good ASCII art at the beginning, though it's usually just a recreation of the logo for the game.

EDIT: I've also seen the famous "Picard Facepalm" ASCII-ized.

Oh, and another question: How do you pronounce ASCII? Do you just spell it out, or is it "ASK-y"?

Whichever you prefer. I do both.

[Dr.Epic]

I once made an ASCII Bruce Lee and Cthulhu but I lost it awhile ago.

[jumpywinghim]

Here's something else that I made:

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I appreciate people FINDING some art on the internet, but what I'd really like is for people to make their own (after all, if I wanted ASCII art from anywhere, I would just look on the internet myself). Just to see what the regular person can do. I understand it would be quite time consuming for most, but if anyone has the time to do it, that would be really great.

Oh, and thanks VERY much for the code tags tip, Sirroelivan. I woulda died without them...


EDIT: Since making ASCII art would be so time consuming, I guess we can also discuss it here. I really do hope people will make some though!

[Vaynor]

Time consuming? Not if you cheat! Use this tool to convert images into ASCII art.

Here's a kitty.

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[jumpywinghim]

Well, I won't deny that converter tools are cool, but it would be nice to see people's SKILL in making ASCII art. Converters obviously wouldn't require any labour apart from finding a nice image...

That's a REALLY cute kitty you've got there, Vaynor.

[Vaynor]

Oh I know. However, I suck at making ASCII images so I thought I'd share this handy converter. And yes, it is quite a cute kitty.