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Keyboard Art
Note – This was originally posted to a friend’s site in 2011. Her site is down now so I’ve reposted it, mostly for myself, here.
I’ve been working with ASCII Art again this year. It’s been awhile since I was active in the old ASCII art groups or wrote about it for WZ.com as a newsletter.… Read the rest
Ello Logo in ASCII Art
I started at Ello tonight.
I could have made it bigger but then the letters wouldn’t have worked so well as eyes.
Update – The site is still going but I left. They headed in a different direction, making it about art instead of just being social. I don’t remember deleting my account (I may have) but the link is no longer there now (January, 2021).
I Like Making ASCII Art
This post was originally posted to Squidoo while I was writing there. That site was closed in 2014.
Maybe you have seen ASCII art and didn’t know what it was.
I make pictures using my computer keyboard – the characters of the keyboard, the text letters, punctuation marks and the numbers too. I enjoy ASCII art.… Read the rest
My First ASCII Art Picture
Created in 1998, when I was just getting into the ASCII Art newsgroup, this was the first ASCII art picture I finished. I thought it wasn’t too bad. But I didn’t like it. Other people in the group at the time, like Joan Stark, were making much better art. I remember many others but unless you were there at the time you won’t know them.… Read the rest
ldb ASCII Artist
Best viewed in a fixed width font. My favourite are FixedSys or Consolas.
The ASCII art gallery files open as plain text (.txt files). If you can’t see them (if they look messed up) change the font you are viewing them with.
Please respect the artist. Leave the artist credit, initials (mine are ldb), on each of the images.… Read the rest
Clip Art Guide Application for About.com
I’ve just applied for the Clip Art topic at About.com. It would be great to get in and start promoting clip art and getting more people making their own graphics and even drawing.
Here is what I sent for my application. If nothing else, I like to remember what I wrote. :
… Read the restI tend to draw clip art rather than write about it.