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That's all the boring stuff about technique over. :-) What's coming up is a
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step by step demo of how I go about turning a picture into ascii.
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When you first start, it's always a good idea to try to draw something simple.
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Gromit the dog is made up of very simple shapes - just ovals and circles, so
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I'll use him as an example.
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To start a picture, I look for the simplest or most prominent feature of
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try the 2 line circle and see where that takes me. After I've drawn his nose
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I'll see if I can draw the shape of his head around it:
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Hmm.. don't like that - the top of his head isn't tall enough, but if I make it
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any longer it looks too narrow. If I make it wider, then the nose looks too
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.... and to put the nose in the center, I'll have to make it yet another
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.. and though it looks like it would make a nice dog, it's not Gromit, really
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is it? So I'll make his nose a bit bigger; 3 lines this time, and try the face
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Yep - that's more like it. :-) Next I usually try to fit the eyes in.
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Nope. Don't like those. Normally I like to make eyes complete circles, or just
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use a couple of characters like "9 9" or "e e".But those would be too small.
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