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...I never really finished this picture, as you can see. We'll take
care of that, but first, I want you to notice that the additional
characters I have used in this castle:
/ \ ^ . "
Find them on your keyboard, and get ready to use 'em.
Now, you might think that curve above the door is simple. It is.
It's made on two lines, like this:
line 1 ... three periods
line 2 ." ". a period and a quotation mark, followed by three
spaces, and then a quotation mark and another period.
Together, lines 1+2 look like this:
...
." ". ... a simple arch.
Let's finish this picture, now...
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All I have done here, is brick in the tower, add a midline to the
door, and add a little flag at the top. I didn't really care for the
"shingles" I had on the roof, so I deleted them. If you liked them,
you can keep them in, of course.
That "flag" looks cute, but it is really nothing except the <
character... Oh my, my; I mean the > character, entered a few times,
until it looks like a flag.
Next, let's add a line to give it a little dimension, just like
with a drawn picture on a sketchpad. We won't really need anything
except the "_" character again....
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That's much better, isn't it? But this picture still lacks an
element or two... I think what this picture really needs, is a tree or
two. Trees are really simple to make. We will look at two easy ones,
made with the characters: