making ascii art for beginners?

what's the best way to learn to make ascii art? is there a good walkthrough tutorial out therw? i've been using stuff i find online for my gemlog but want to start making originals but don't know where to start. thanks for any tips ;)

2024-09-21 · 1 year ago · 👍 · 🤔 1

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I'm not sure if you've seen this, but @mozz has directed me here:

gemini://mozz.us:7070/academy/tutorials

I remember back in the day when I did a bit of ASCII art, I found this free program (it was old even then and written in Java) that was like a drawing package for ASCII art (I forget what it was called). It was somewhat limited for its drawing tools but great for ASCII-style pixel-art as it had a grid and you could place characters anywhere without altering the lining up of everything else.

Anyway, I would recommend that for a beginner, if only I could remember what it was called...

I provide two conversion tools in gemini space for converting images to Unicode glyphs and a common text to big text.

Lacks the charm of hand drawn ascii art but if you need something quick it might be an option.

gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/textart/

gemini://brainsocks.xyz/projects/diglet/

I stumbled upon asciiflow dot com recently. it is oss also. I like it for my purposes.