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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 31 Aug 1999.
Re: No Artist..But!

Re: No Artist..But!

On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:08:14 -0500, "Bryce Carpenter" <bry...@ncci.net>
wrote:

>You know, If you just convert images, that kinda takes the fun out of
>ascii-art don't you think? I think if you are interested in ascii art, i
>think you should just go at it the old-fashioned way on NotePad, monitor,
>CPU and keyboard. Of course, others may have a different opinion. They may
>just want to cheat. I am just starting ascii art but i think that there
>should not be these "converters".

Well.. yes and no..

I'd agree that there's not a lot of point in finding an image somewhere
and then just running it through a converter.

However, having had a go at converting, I'd have to say that the people
who convert well - preparing the graphic before it's converted, and then
'retouching' the output - are very skilled indeed (I find doing ascii by
hand far easier than getting a conversion looking good).


-- 
James Mitchelhill
approx. email - azi...@tcp.co.unitedkingdom
website is currently dead

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Subject: Re: No Artist..But!
Date: 1999/08/31
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