e_side s quick and dirty DRAW like ME tutorial there s no easy way to draw nice looking ASCII like i have been around for a while now started in december 96 with a really crappy ascii and now - People actually LIKE my art (well someone do) Anyway this tutorial is not about me rather about my ASCII style if u ve look a bit close at my asciies u can easily see that they re a bit bigger than the usual size of a OLDSCHOOL ascii because my LETTERS are BIGGER let s START 1 the FIRST thing I do is to choose what CHARACTERS i want to use in a ASCII Recently the and been a popular choice of mine YOU should choose characters urself or else you ll be a bit UNORIGINAL 2 Begin to draw wide RECTANGULAR shapes kinda like this +----------------+ +----------------+ 3 Drawing oldschool ascii usually doesn t require a talent for it so don t bother too much if ur first asciies like dull and boring +----------------+ the shape is basic in ALL my asciies but are always +----------------+ different in a way 4 expirement with the characters u have chosen to shape the ascii the way u want it kinda like this ________ +----------------+ -------- ____ ___ +----------------+ -----------+ 5 the ascii looks a bit different now doesn t IT continue to experiment and make more shapes like this ________ ________ -------- ____ ____ ___ ___ -----------+ -----------+ 6 Still doesn t look like a ascii the next thing is to try to make the shapes look like alphabetic letter ________ ________ ____ __ _____ ___ ________ -----------+ ________ a T! -------- 7 Still doesn t look like MY style we ll have to do something about that just not yet the next step is to melt your letter-shapes together with eachother like this ________ ________ _____ ________ ____ __ _____ ___ ______ _____ ___ ________ ___ ________ -----------+ ________ -----------+_______ a T! -------- -------- 8 now u got some weird ascii shape now is the time to shape it in UR own style (my style as i m the one writing this) _____ ________ ____ ___ ______ _____ ___ ______ ------- _____ ___ ________ _______ -----------+_______ _____ ------ ____ It says IT -------- ________ this ASCII might not look nice but it give u the BASICS in MY way of making oldschool asci just don t make it look too much like my ascii or you will get accused of ripping (i don t mind anybody ripping me but the ASCII community generally dislikes hate(s) ripping) Good luck everyone e_side