by Joris Bellengersvzanten@xs4all.nl
This a little tutorial about how my -grayscale girl- was made. Just though that some of you might be interested.
Drawing grayscale ASCII art is very time consuming but I could save a few hours work using JavE.
I first made a gif-to-ascii convertion with JavE. The quality didn't really matter because I was about to change every single character later anyway.
The idea behind this was to set the overall shape of the drawing.
This is the raw convertion.
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I saved the document and opened it in a text editor for hand made diddling where I worked on the top-half of the girl, keeping the legs for later.
The diddling could have been made in JavE but I'm just used to my text editor.
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I made a copy of the legs and pasted them in JavE
.. J ~ ( _ _` : _ ` _. . .` ( . .` : ~` .. _ .` ; / _` ( ( ( _~ r ` ) .x. ; ; _3. .; ~ . . 2 % ~..`. : .~ :``(:_% .} `..` . _ ~((: c ( `. .~ ; /} : ( .` o ; ( _ ( .: _` ( ( .` _` ` ; _~ ( . .` .;` .; : ; v _` ~ .` _; r _ . v` .: .. .` (. _` , ( .: ( .: .] ) ; /. .; .: > /` 8 : r .` )` ( ( _` .; .: ._ .` ) _ ( _=/__` ) { ...__ .(c?!3/ (:(>`~w. `` `:``(:The idea was to use the gradient tool to fill the legs. To obtain a nice shading effect I had to fill them separately. So I erased one leg, closed the gaps and erased the shadows around the knees and toes.
..:'''''''''': ( ' : ' _. . ( . : : .. : ; : ( ( _~ r ) .x. ; _3 ~ 2 .~ _% _ c ; } .` o _ ( ( ( ` ; . .` : ; ~ .` _ . .. .` , ( .: .] /. .; /` 8 .` )` _` .; .` ) _ ) .(c?!3/ ``The next step was to make a custom gradient in the Fill Options panel:
MNBtir+iBI entered the following settings in the Fill Options panel:
- Linear
- dither: enabled
- Any character + diagonal
... and filled the edges of the legs
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- Equal character
... and filled the inside of the leg.
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I opened the diddled drawing (step 2) in JavE and carefuly pasted the two legs in place.
The setting I used in the Selection Options panel was:
- Foreground
I saved and closed the document and opened it in my text editor where the legs shading and edges were hand diddled.
Tadaaaa...
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