X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,fecf23c6cf48b1a0 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public From: "Christ van Willegen" Subject: Re: Sick Art Date: 1999/02/23 Message-ID: <7av8r8$kbq$1@news.IAEhv.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 447644192 References: <36d1a379.17281851@news.midwest.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Organization: Internet Access Eindhoven, the Netherlands Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Spirit of the Night wrote in message <36d1a379.17281851@news.midwest.net>... > > Get Well Soon :) > > .-. > ..'-'.. < {> > || || \ }/ > |||) || .--.''.--. .---. > |||X || | | || || > || || |Tissues | ||~|| > ||___||_ |________| ||_|| > (_):======= oo ldb > >I've been sick this weekend. Spoiled all our plans for a weekend off. >But I did make this ascii pic so there is at least one good thing. :) Too bad. Being sick is never nice or easy. I spent a week in bed at the end of last year. 'Nice' pic (pic's nice, subject isn't) by the way! > >PS: Hello to Christ. You must have seen some really good ascii if >you've been lurking in the group that long. Do you have a few >favourites saved? Hm. That's a sore spot you've hit there... I'm afraid I must confess that only _very_ recently (just about... uhm... this evening (why can't these fonts be any smaller!)) decided that I _should_ save some ASCII art. So, unfortunately, until now I've depended on others to make huge archives of ASCII art. I _have_ seen some pretty darn good ASCII over the years. It's had to say what I like most. Line drawings (esp. the _very_ small ones), if done well (Veronica's Waterfall comes to mind) are very nice. A _good_ picture conversion also 'hits the spot'. The even older (I'm not that terribly old, though...) printing art (mostly of nude ladies) is very nice, as well. As soon as I can immediately tell what it's supposed to be, I'll go _wow_ and let it soak in. Btw. I don't know if this is common knowledge, but someone started a site with all sorts of 80's (and partly 70's and 90's) text files. This includes lots of texts from the beginning of Internet, and Usenet (_way_ before www came to be), including ASCII art. It may be nice to see such 'old' art after so much time. It's something like http://www.asciitexts.com. Almost correct: http://www.textfiles.com . I think you'll like it. I will practise my drawing techniques (not that I have any at the moment). And start saving art. I promise! I really do! Christ van Willegen -- No .sig yet