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Published: 2004-05-11 07:12:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 5351; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 3557
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After listening to the Artscene Radio Talk Show broadcasts [link] I got interested in the ASCII artform. I checked out a couple of packs & felt inspired.Everyone should be listening to these shows, especially the second one with an interview from $spot
What we have here is a line-by-line translation of a stock pic [link] into ASCII format. I did do some manipulation on the reference pic, but each character & symbol was painstakingly selected to make up the whole. I'm guessing that Pixel artists would be kind of interested in this artform since I see a lot similarities.
4 hours with Pablodraw
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iam against converters, but pablo draw is oke! good ascii's!
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It is amazing that you did that by hand. I tried ASCII before I just used a program took like 10 sec.
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wow, I like this. I was going to take Typography last semester but....well that's another story. Anyway I think this was going to be one of the projects. Most of the ones I've seen are white with black text, I think I like your way better....
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On another note, that guy looks like Lenin.
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This is crazy good on a level that slides up to excellent. The way this looks so real and so defined is astounding. I can honestly see a real human face when I close my eyes halfway and blur my vision. It turns into a very near black and white photo for me which absolutely blows me away.
I really wish I could give better praise for this because of how well it has been made, but all I can say is cripes.
Fantastic work!
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is there a chance that the text version of this is available?
i'd love to remix this pic.
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Look here , scroll down the page and you will find an HTML version of this amazing picture.
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awesome man, truely awesome, ASCII art is difficult and takes alot of time, this is immense, great stuff 
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Way cool ^.^ I admire your pacience. You are awesome! ^.^
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ascii rocks. shadings are very well done. inverted colors look nice on it
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damn... that's awesome... you should do one of billy corgan.
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this is really awesome. it looks quite painstaking indeed.
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When I was young, I always did say I wanted words shaved into my head but this brings in a new meaning.
I believe that Rockstar Games actually needs an ASCII drawing for pictures such as that one and it pays a fortune. They need it for their help documents for the new GTA coming out. (San Andreas) You may like to send in an application there because so far, I think this would blow the rest away.
Great Work and I hope to see a lot more of it.
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ASCII art is crazy. Difficult to rememebr to spell also. I like the how you go the text to fade the iamge into the bkgd a bit - very cool. Your name is in it !
Sorry for the lame comment. I'm feeling odd today.
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That looks pretty amazing, well done.. hard to believe it's your first.
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It does look a lot like a conversion, I'm surprised that it isn't. I'm also pleasantly surprised that you didn't use any non-ASCII characters, like people with this style often tend to use. The antialiasing could be a little better, though. You're saying you just started making ASCII? Wow. Hard to believe. You should continue it.
I do agree that ASCII art and pixel art have a lot in common (ANSI and pixel art are almost the same). When I started pixeling I had already made ASCII art for six years and the pixeling techniques felt very familiar.
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Coolies
I would never have the patience to do ASCII art, it seems so simple yet so overly complex both at the same time 
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Wow! That was super awsome! Especialy if you did it by hand. How did you do it. Would be nice to know step by step or something. +FAV
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