Talk: Normand Veilleux

From: ag4...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Colin R. Leech)
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>Normand Veilleux (nve...@emr1.emr.ca) writes:
>> It's always nice to see people appreciate my ASCII art
>> even though I don't even consider myself an artist.
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>Normand is far too modest (yes, he's the same way in person, too).

Hey!  What is this?  I'm under friendly fire!!!  :-)

There is a lot hidden behind the statement I made.  I'm not an
artist in real life.  One of these days I will take a drawing
course and learn how to draw by hand.  Just like scribes used to
copy texts and sometimes embellished the copy I can copy pictures
from paper to screen.  The scribes were not considered authors, so
for the same reason, I don't consider myself an artist.

The vast majority of my ASCII works are just copies of pictures
that I transferred to screen using a grid technique (more on this
in a later post).  I have modified GIFs too, but that is very time
consuming.  This is why I came up with the grid system.  It speeds
up the transfer from paper to screen without using a scanner.  So
basically you could say that I am a human scanner.  Alternatively
you could say that I am a meticulous, hard-headed, quality minded
amateur that likes playing around with ASCII art.  If that's what
you mean by "artist", then I fit the bill.  :-)

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