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From: nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca (Normand Veilleux)
Subject: Talk: Normand Veilleux
Date: 1996/03/22
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>From: mo@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu (F.L. Catalyst)
>
>Someone with excellent taste in art said:
>>: Let's give NORMAN  a big hand!
>>: He's really good at this acii art stuff, and, though most people don't 
>>: realize, a lot of work goes into ASCII art...so GOOD JOB NORMAN!!!
>
>Er...  I rather agree -- except I suspect he'd appreciate the applause
>even more if folks would get his name right...
>
>             ,-,  ,                         ,-,
>             ` |__| ,-._,-._,-. ,-. . .     | |,-._,-.
>               |  | | | | |   | | | | |     |/ | |   |
>               '  `-'-' `-'   `-'-'-'-|'   '|--'-'   `-'
>                                    ,'|     |`. 
>                                    `-'     `-'
>,-,,--.                             ,  ,-,   .-    o ,-. ,-.                 |
>  |   | ,-._,-. ,-.-.-. ,-. ,-.-. ,-|  ` |   | ,-. , | | | | ,-. . . ,-. .   |
>  |   | | |   | | | | | | | | | | | |    (   | | | | | | | | | | | | |  X    '
>  '   `-'-'   `-' ' ' `-'-'-' ' `-'-'     `-' --'--'--'---'---'--'-'-' ' `-  o
>
>(art based on one of Normand's sigs)
>
>We'll miss you.  Good luck!
>-Catalyst


Maybe not!  I think Brandon started a chain reaction here!  Thanks
everyone.  It's always nice to see people appreciate my ASCII art
even though I don't even consider myself an artist.

The only reason there has been a large volume of my work posted
recently is that I was reposting art that I had done between Dec.
'93 and Dec. '95 because there was a good chance that my Internet
account would not be valid after March 15, '96.  I have just been
informed that through some special arrangements my term contract is
now being extended for 1 year, so I will keep my Internet account. 
Yeah!!  :-)

Adam Moore mentioned he was impressed with the quality of my
works.  Well, when I started ASCII drawing I quickly noticed that
these criteria were important to me:  simplicity, cleanliness,
clarity and uniformity of shading.  As a learning experience, I
tried smoothing the contours of other people's pictures and even
though everyone else were using M's, like in the famous "Meriday in
the morning" ASCII picture, I felt that using an '8' was a better
choice IMHO because it had a brightness comparable to the other
characters I was using to smooth out the pictures:  b, d, a, Y, P,
etc.  It just felt right and it looked good too, so it became my
style.

Most people don't know this, but my "career" as an ASCII artist was
greatly influenced by 2 nude pictures that I worked on at the very
beginning.  The first one was probably a GIF conversion that
someone had posted a long time ago and which had been recirculated
many times.  Most of the picture was made up of comas, colons and
semi-colons.  It was quite a challenge to massage her ASCII body
into something better while experimenting with contour smoothing
and trying to find my own style.  Nonetheless, it turned out very
well and I decided to give her a bikini.  Once that one was
finished I converted the picture of Meriday to my style and
eventually gave her a bikini too.  I don't know if there is such a
thing as an artistic turn-on, but if there is then I know exactly
how it feels.  I just couldn't stop working on those pictures.  I
would stay after work, skip supper, come in on the weekends, etc. 
It was like life had no meaning, except to finish those pictures! 
The rest is history...  :-) 

I will be posting this art shortly as well as a few nudes, etc. and
a few old posts describing my techniques, so stay tuned...


The pictures I post are at their best when printed with a
'Line Printer 16.67 cpi' font or equivalent.

    ___        _______
  ,88888,    ,d88888888a
 ,88" `Y8,  ,88"'   `"Y8i     ,ggggg,   ,ggggg,   ,ggg,,ggg,,ggg,
 I8b,  `8b ,88'       d8I    dP"  "Y8ggg8""""8I  ,8" "8P" "8P" "8,
 `Y8P   88.88'       ,88'   i8'    ,8I       8I  I8   8I   8I   8I
        (8V8'        d8P    I8,   ,d8'       Y8,,dP   8I   8I   Yb,
        (88P        ,8P     `Y8888P"         `Y88P'   8I   8I   `Y8ba
        d88         d8'
       ,88'        ,8P                 _,,ggdd888bbgg,,_
       d8P         I8I            _,gd8888P"""""""""Y8888bg,_
      ,88          I8b       _,gd88P"""'               `"""Y88bg,_
      88'          `Y8b,__,gd8P""'      Normand Veilleux     `""Y8bg,_
     d8P            `Y88888P"'        nveilleu@emr1.emr.ca       `"Y88ba