Crypto ASCII art -- work in progress

[Blaziken257]

I've honestly never done ASCII art before, so this is the first time I've ever done this. I finished sketching a Crypto ASCII so you can see it. You may notice that I used the Arial font for this, even though it's probably easier to do it in Courier New. This is because I go on GameFAQs quite a bit, and ASCII art is fairly popular there. And GameFAQs uses Arial, so it only makes sense.

Here it is so far:

http://www.freewebs.com/blaziken257/ascii/crypto.html

How is it so far? One thing I need to work on is fixing up the contours -- some lines are darker than others. I also need to do some shading as well. But tell me what you think!

[andwhyisit]

You did all that by hand? :blink:

That is friggin' awesome.

[Blaziken257]

Yeah, I did. It took me over two hours too. What I did was take one of the pics from the official Telefang site and pasted it into Microsoft Word, and then made the image go behind the text (by right-clicking on the image, clicking on "Format Picture...", clicking on the "Layout" tab, then selecting "Behind text"). Then I brightened the image so that I could see the ASCII. Then I set the font to Arial and put text above it so I could see the picture while I was doing it.

And THANKS! I still need to add the appropriate shading, though...

EDIT: Done! Just look at the bottom part of the page.

[Sanqui]

Ok so that IS pretty awesome.

You should try it with a monosized font sometime.

[andwhyisit]

Can you do the shaded one without the dotted background?

[Blaziken257]

Sanky: Thanks! Yeah, I should try it with a monosized font. It's probably easier that way... not to mention it looks cool...

andwhyisit: Yeah, I can. The only reason I did that is so I can post it on GameFAQs, where you can't post consecutive spaces due to the way HTML works.

[garm(imported)]

Aren't there ASCII generators out there?
Can't say no if you want to do it though; it looks pretty cool.

I'll be saying about the dotted one;
The lines where the pupil is look...weird and unpupil-ish.
The tail looks way jagged.
The foot is pretty unclear.
Then again I dunno how to do ASCII, yea.