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From: llizard <cq547@freent.toronto.on.ca>
Subject: Re: Does size make a difference?
Date: 1997/10/30
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In article <34580851.6AF6@umit.maine.edu>, Zeus Simeoni
<zeus_simeoni@umit.maine.edu> wrote:

> Ok, most of us have been told most of our lives that size does not make a
> difference.  Then when we aged, we learned that we have been lied to our
> whole lives.  The fact is, size makes a huge difference.  Now, relating my
> little rant here to the topic of ascii art, I was just wondering how
> everyone seems to like to see stuff. 
>
>      Personally, before I started making my own, I copied some other 
> peoples, and if it did not take up a fairly sizable amount, I felt there 
> was just no reason to bother copy it.  Then again, if I saw anything that
> took up too much room, I would not bother copy it either. Stuff like Row's
> seemed to be consistantly in the right range. Basically, little left to
> the imagination, and never more than a 80X20 screen in size.
[snip]
>      Someone mentioned here earilier, shakara or however you correctly spell
> the name, that they liked smaller stuff, but personally, it took me almost
> two weeks to figure out what llizard's sig was!
[snip]
> Anyway, just wondering what other's opinions are? (obviously, the perfect
> way would be to be good at both, as joan has many small things, and does
> large things on occasion, such as her cock-a-too on her index web page) Just
> wondering what people seem to prefer.

The reason I started doing any kind of ascii-art was for sigs. I was
under the impression that anywhere but this newsgroup, sigs are not
supposed to exceed 4 or 5 lines. That is one reason why my drawings are
mostly small. The other is that I have always been entranced by
miniatures and the fact that they leave a lot to the imagination. I
don't want everything spelled out for me.

Other people's drawings that I prefer do not require any moving of the
page to see the entire drawing (that means they can't be larger than 18
lines). Most of Joan's, Shanaka's, Joris' fall into my preferred
category for non-sig drawings. I think we are generally in agreement
then on size preference, although I really do like the little ones that
are clearly what they are depicting.     

Look at these horses by I don't know who. (Does anyone know?)

       _ ____
     /( ) _   \
    / //   /\` \,  ||--||--||-
      \|   |/  \|  ||--||--||-
~^~^~^~~^~~~^~~^^~^^^^^^^^^^^^

                         ,--,
      |__          _ ___/ /\|
   :__|_|__/  __ ;( )__, )
   /-\|__/-\_/  ; //   '--;
   \'/   \'/      \     |
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I WISH I could do something half that good.

However, just to show that not only don't I attempt just small things
and that I break my own size restriction of 18 lines or less, here are
some things I think are entirely unsuitable for sigs.

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 __ejm 97|| | | | {| |}||| | ||_--__-   _---
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                     |}|/
                     |}/
                     |/


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                             -  \)

phoenix

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     |     |        ha            your problem is, Zeus.
     |^%===|   ,^%--- ha      This llizard llooks so clearly
     |_____| __>_ \ ha            llike a llizard to me!
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     [_____] __>,^  llizard aka ejm  cq547@freenet.toronto.on.ca
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