Sender: nicos elves.Waiting for Godot, message area: ASCIIart Title: Re: Investigate Sending site: Hanhai Nebula Monday, April 24, 2006 11:12:14, site mail Personally, I think there are roughly three limitations to ASCII images. 1. The characters used to compose the image are limited. But fortunately these Characters are enough to form countless patterns. 2. Discontinuity in composition. Where characters can be placed when making ASCII drawings. It is fixed. Coupled with the limited characters, it becomes difficult to draw a smooth line. Three, there are only 16 colors. This limits the imagination of the artist to some extent So when making ASCII drawings, I always feel restricted by these frames. This is probably because I am drawing in a continuous way. Thinking and imagining, I am still used to finding pictures and then making drawings based on them. This will give me a more holistic sense. Hear Many ASCII masters themselves have drawing skills. They draw the imaginary things and then convert them into ASCII pictures like this Maybe that's the right way to draw ASCII graphics. For me, what I do more is use ASCII to copy other people’s pictures: