>> 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 " É , » , È and ¼ " 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:                                       ________
                                +----------------+         /--------\     ____\
                                |                |  ::>>  /___            |
                                +----------------+            È-----------+

5. the ascii looks a bit different now, doesn't IT?.. continue to experiment,and   make more shapes... like this:             ________    ________
                                    /--------\     ____\ \        È//____
                                   /___            |     /___            |
                                       È-----------+         È-----------+

6. Still doesn't look like a ascii.. the next thing is to try to make the shapes   look like alphabetic letter...:    ________                   ________
                                     \        È//____         __\        /_____
                                     /___            |  ::>  \         ________\                                         È-----------+       /________      /
                                                              a T! È--------\

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:

 ________                 ________                _____          ________
\        È//____       __\        /_____       ___\    È//______\        /_____
/___            | ::> \         ________\ ::> /___           \         ________\    È-----------+     /________      /            È-----------+_______      /
                       a T! È--------\                             È--------\

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) :

      _____          ________                    ____
   ___\    È//______\        /_____          ___\\   //______,,-------»_____
  /___           \         ________\  ::>> ɼ            È»         É_______\
      È-----------+_______      /          //_____,,------//____ɼ       /
    It says "IT"       È--------\                               /________\


 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...