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nickelodeon wrote:
> Hello from Nickelodeon--I am looking to create ASCII art from a line
> drawing that I have for a character. I don't want to use a conversion
> program, because I want "true ASCII art" so that letterforms are chosen
> thoughtfully. Can anyone recommend how to do this or recommend an
> artist who would be able to do this?
> any info would be great. Thanks, Mo

When I make ascii-art conversions from linedrawings , sketches or vectorart ,
I actually "cheat" by first using JavE ( http://www.jave.de ) to convert the
image to ascii-art , usually with the B/W algorithm and the lines or
thick&thin style as these do a great job of converting lineart.

Then I overlay the original image onto the canvas with the watermark tool.

Using that as a guide I then proceed to edit all the lines in the conversion,
until nothing of the original conversion is left and every character is done
by "hand"

It's this final editing that turns a mere converted image into a beautifully
typed ascii-art.

Here is drawing I did of the original Mozilla Firebird logo using that technique :


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