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From: lusion@x.x (Lusion)
Subject: Re: king of hearts???
Date: 1997/07/07
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In article <19970707042601.AAA20002@ladder01.news.aol.com>, spunk1111@aol.com (Spunk1111) says:
>In article <33C0048E.167EB0E7@nospam.sm.luth.se>, Veronica Karlsson
><e93-vkn@nospam.sm.luth.se> writes:
>>Quite right, it's not easy. There are certain details that *have*to* be
>>there, a heart, a 'K' (I suppose I could just use the letter K but
>>somehow I think it would look strange if the letter didn't have the same
>>size as the heart) and a king (man with crown, and preferably a beard
>>too), and then I would have to draw everything upside down and combine
>>it all with some sort of diagonal shaped "cloth" thing...
>
>I've been watching this thread.. I haven't gotten to try my hand at it
>as yet... (I probably will later...)  but I am wondering if the requestor 
>is asking specifically for the King of Hearts because it is the 
>"suicide king"...  So far, none of the
>ASCII pics have depicted the sword in this king's head...
>-joan

I gave it my best, after getting the idea of turning the card on its
size.  The result is the following 7-liner (still too big for a sig
imo, but others use sigs this large):
                                
[~~~~~|~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~__~~~~|~<3~] _
[     |\,,===\ \\ \---///<_[<p  | __ ][_ |    _ |  _  _ _
[     |:=:^'= > H  \-///  @ ||  | /\ ][_ |>|~ <||~|<|| | |  ,
[     |/`====/  H.m w`H  /====./|    ]___  __  _ _  _  . ,-'
[ \/  |  ||_@_ ///-\  H < =.v:=:|    ] |  '-  | | | <| | | 
[ ~~  |  d>]_>///---\ \\ \===''\|    ]~~~ --' ,----------'
[__&>_|__~~_&>__________________|____] ( The King of Hearts )

It's a tad bit "flat", but contains the most detail off of a real
card that I can get, while shortenning it as much as I can.

Of course, the lettering can be changed however you see fit; and, in
"theory", it would work better with 9 lines (although it'd be an even
larger sig; use the extra lines to give white space around the king
figure).

Peace
--
Lusion