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From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: newbie
Date: 1999/07/16
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.----- On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:20:54 GMT, Ruler posted:
|Hi all, really new to ascii art and this newsgroup.
|How much time does it take to create ascii arts on average? It needs
|lots of imagination! How do I start create one?
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I usually spend about half an hour to three quarters on a picture of a
person, where I like to get it looking right, but other pictures tend to
range from 15 minutes to half an hour. It took me longer when I first
started, but now that I've got the hang of which symbols make which shapes
and where they are on the keyboard, I don't seem to thing
"quote-dash-fullstop-underscore" I think "diagonal line" and type out "-._
.. it just takes practice.

You can find tutorials and information in the ASCIIArt Documents Archive:
I usually give out the geographically nearest mirror to the poster, but
since your message headers give very little away I'm assuming Canada based
on the organisation location... in which case your nearest is my mirror in
Seattle I believe...

http://martweb.hypermart.net/ada/

or if banner ads irritate you (they won't appear on the documents
themselves) you can try this UK mirror...

http://voices.vossnet.co.uk/a/atkins/ada/

Have fun, and post some pictures if you are bitten by the ASCII Art bug!

Regards,
-Martin
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