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From: Andreas Freise <adf@mpq.mpg.de>
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Subject: Re: [pic] pregnant
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:40:32 +0200
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On 10 Apr 2002 Faux_Pseudo wrote:
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> 
> Now that is a nice work of ascii.
> Did you trace it or go freehand?

Thanks. No, no tracing since there is no picture to trace from.
Usually I do ASCII pictures straight from `the imagination'. :) 
Once I tried tracing (see "der blaue Reiter" on my webpage) and
when there is a request for an ASCIIfication of a certain
motive I try to copy that freehand. Otherwise I draw just as 
I feel like.

I do use Jave though. Mostly to draw a first freehand sketch
for getting the proportions right. Then I do the finer bits with Emacs
(since Sun's JDK does not work well with a German keyboard I cannot
use Jave as a simple editor). Finally I switch back to Jave for moving 
the picture around a bit or drawing horizons and stuff like that.

You may guess how this is done my looking into the "intermediate scribbles"
links in my Gallery. For example for the pregnant woman that is at:

http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/my/pregnant_s.txt

The final pic is at:

http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/my/big5.shtml

:)
Andreas

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