Heikki Lotvonen
I found this at Grmmxi. A site from Heikki Lotvonen, a coder and designer specializing in modular design and text art. Then I found the Glyph Drawing Club which has a blog site to post about text art and a guide to using the GDC.
design
Real Estates Sales Icons in ASCII Art
I made these as real estate icons. Making ASCII art from icons I find online is fun, like a creative art exercise. Icons are fairly simple in design and not big projects to start.
Maple Leaf Wreath – Simple Version
I have a design in my head, mostly. This is a much simpler version of it.
Doctor Who in ASCII Text Art
I’m a Doctor Who fan. I began watching the original old shows from the 1960s. I was very happy when the Doctor Who series started up again.
I’ve found ASCII art created for the Doctor Who series, both the old and new shows. It was really great to find the older art. Most of the art created are daleks.
ASCII Art Polka Dots
ASCII Art polka dots. I have always liked polka dots. They look happy.
Snowflake with Heart and Flower Centres
Trying another design from a pattern in a necklace online. I am fairly sure this has already been done by others in ASCII art. I was hoping to get a poinsettia from working on this. No luck so far.
ASCII Art Curator
Doing too many things with too many windows open. I lost track of where I copied this from. I also found the ASCII art I have posted there but had to track back and around awhile to find it in a large enough size to really view. You can’t see the construction when it is too small.… Read the rest
Stealing Code
Is it really stealing if you’re just using the basic idea and adapting it for your own. So much of creativity is based on taking something you’ve seen and changing it or trying to illustrate it for others to see. I really like the layout of this site, selling embroidered goods. I like the colours and the three column layout and things are placed well in the design too.… Read the rest