Justification of the pics below by Cthulu / Questor
Justification of the pics below by Cthulu / Questor
Hey ho. Just Cthulu here professing a justification of what you are
about to see below or rather, in the next few files. You may notice that
the two following ANSI files look like blatantly GIF2ANSd pictures. There
are several things to keep in mind, however. To start off, Questor did draw
these by hand, using a square ratio 80x50 mode which GIF2ANS does NOT save
to. In addition, GIF2ANS will not convert to ansis over 100 lines, both of
which these pictures are. If you seek proof, there are preliminary sketches
of the Christy Turling pic in the archive QTHAND.ZIP.
There is little we can do to convince you further if you refuse to
admit that they are genuine, but we offer this in the manner of logical
compensation. Surely one with the talents of Questor would not need to resort
to GIF2ANS. Look at the preceeding picture and his skill will be apparent.
He has no claim in the art scene and refuses to draw advertisements for
anyone, meaning that what he draws is intended for his own pleasure and not
yours. If you think that its ugly, well, good luck finding a way to render
into ANSI format so completely a photograph in a way which is more visually
appealing in 80x25 mode. Yes, we admit, you will need to probably view the
ansis in a high-resolution viewing mode, but when you see the end result,
the accomplishment that Questor has made should be apparent. His skill and
curiosity has resulted in a creation that until now would have seemed
impossible without the aid of a computer.
Thus, it is in keeping with the knowledge that some people will remain
fast in the belief that the pics are scanned and that others may begrudge us
that but still fail to see the point... he did it because it was there. A
graduate of the Integrity school of art, surely those of you who were around
back then will remember the greyscale experiments that Darkforce was making
at that time, while tutoring the other members, including this one Questor.
If anyone would be capable of doing by hand what a program did, it would only
be a member of Intgrity.
Well, Integrity has been dead for a long time, so hes had a lot of
time to perfect his technique. From a technical point of view, heres how
he prepared the image before beginning to ansify it. He wanted to draw in
greyscale because there are twice as many shades to utilize blacks, whites,
and both greys but not so many as to use the entire palette that would be
mind-boggling so he photocopied these lovely ladies from magazines on a
black and white photocopier with the contrast up real high so he could get
an idea of the outlines he wanted to draw around. Once he did that, it was
simply a matter of filling it in with the proper greyscale shading, bit by
bit.
In conclusion, here are some of his own words regarding these ansis
in his own uncaring defense, should you still seek a quarrel with these
items.
date: 12:42 am Mon Dec 23, 1996 number : 13 of 16
from: Questor He said: Private Mail
to : Cthulu refer : None
subj: QT-ANSIS.ZIP replies: None
hey, Cthulu.... ive left for twilight.... just kidding... uh... herere a
couple of ansis ive been working on over the vacation... i dont know if
youll want to use them or not... theyre not your conventional comic
rips... theyre a bit.... abstract? i dont really know...
theyre reminiscent of the bw stuff Darkforce used to do.. im sort
of experimenting a bit with doing ansis only in shades of grey.... i find
them the most versatile... theyre both in 80x50 mode.. you should be happy
that someones actually using that mode.... i like it for drawing... its a
higher resolution than 80x25 though, i use the term high-resolution
loosely... the only problem is, theyre twice the amount of blocks to put
in.. :
i was trying to see how accurate a reproduction i could do with the greys and
text blocks... i think im going insane.... i probably wore out the
alt-v keys flipping between textmode and vga mode.... ansi was getting a bit
boring, so i figured this would be a bit of a challenge... i even tried
anti-aliasing in text mode! god, i really AM insane.. :
i did qt-dpest.ans awhile ago... its my first try at bw... its
not bad, i guess... but it doesnt look too accurate.... there isnt enough
contrast... the second one looks pretty good... i used up my buddys toner
printing the original image out nice and dark :.... uhm...
use them if you want to.. you dont have to.... the art scene can be fickle
about stuff like this..... people dont seem to like anything that deviates
too far from the norm... oh well... their loos.... i personally think these
two ansis are better than my comic rips... i think after i finish off that
joint with mage et al. i will just do these kinds of ansi.... yeah..... i
think ill do an ansi of myself next.. : well... i seem to be blathering on
a bit here..... i think ill go slit my throat now.... bye...
The following has been attached:
Filename.Ext Bytes hh:mm:ss
QT-ANSIS.ZIP 39890 00:00:27
and further discussion...
i dont really care how you release them... ive also adapted the
style for color pics too the over shaded sort.... less f4s, replaced with
shade blocks.... black space covered with f1s..... i remember back with
integrity, inquisitor was replaces the f4s with f3s, and eerie was replacing
the f7/f8s with f1s... i liked that style.... and 80x50 is better for
ansi... square aspect..
C Keep talking..
C this kind of background is important in case we need anyone else to back up
C the claims of this peculiar integrity hobby.
haha.... integrity hobby, eh? yeah... i guess its kind of peculiar... but
then again, most integrity artists were fairly jaded and bored with the ansi
standard then..
C Hey, can I have a few files of outlines, while were at it?
C I want to release these with as little fuss as possible.
sure... i dont think i kept any of the uh... qt-dpest.ans... i wasnt too
particularly pleased with that one... but i kept a few progressions of the
other one... i think ive got 2 or 3 of them... let em rename them to some
more.... explainatory filenames and zip em... ok... got it... uhm... i
wouldnt bother releasing them if there isnt any uproar... cuz im not sure
if anyone has tried the edge detection/outine thing yet...
those progressions are in the file QTHAND.ZIP, as noted earlier.
well, thats all we have to say about that 8