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WELCOME TO MY ASCII ART COLLECTION
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All pieces of ASCII art on this site (except those in the contributed section) were created by me.
The Latest:
12/24/04 I apologize to all of my (nonexistant) faithful viewers for the lack of activity on this page. I no longer have much interest in ASCII art. Currently, it is the web design that fascinates me. Therefore, I now spend my time making new pages rather than making new art or other updates for this one. I never got very good, but the art on here is fine and does the job of making people more aware of this interesting art form. I suppose that this is me relinquishing my duties as an ASCII artist. Instead of leaving this page out to dry like some, I felt I needed to give a few parting words. After looking through the artwork here, please continue to my
WEB DESIGN page to see the other pages that I have made. ENJOY!
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ASCII (pronounced askee by some) is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. It consists of only the following characters:
AaBbCcDdEeFfGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtUuVvWwXxYyZz
1234567890!@#$%^&*()-=_+[]{}\|;:'",.<>/?`~ and the space character. This means no underlines, no bolds, and no accented characters, only those characters. ASCII text is usually composed and viewed with the Windows program Notepad. ASCII text is most commonly saved as a .txt file.
ASCII art is art that consists of only these characters in a fixed-width font. A fixed-width font is one where every character has the same width. The most commonly used font for ASCII art is Courier New.
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO USE A PIECE OF MY ART
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You may, but I ask that you do the following:
1) Do not alter the art or alter/remove the signature (you should remove the notes after it, however)
2) Include a link back to here, ie:
www.oocities.org/gameguy43
3) Email me at parker_gamemaster@hotmail.com (parker_gamemaster@hotmail.com) and give me the URL or other means of accessing the location of my piece (i.e. aim SN if it is used in your aim profile) simply so I can assure that it is unaltered and still beautiful
:)
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IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE A PIECE OF ART
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Be sure that it only contains the characters described in the WHAT IS ASCII section and was composed in the font Courier New. The best way is to save your piece of art as a .txt file and attach it to the email, as this will keep the formatting from being changed. If you cannot do this, just send it in the body of the email. No matter what way u submit, BE SURE YOU INCLUDE A SIGNATURE!
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It began with a few one-line images of smiley faces in aim conversations. I learned about courier new and fixed-width fonts when writing a faq for GameFaqs.com. Though the faq was never published, I came out with my first piece of ASCII art:
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I started doing other people's names so they could put it in their AIM profile. Sometime in march 2004 I changed my website which had been about electronic gaming into a collection of my ASCII art works. The old website layout can be found here (an earlier version of this layout can be found here. At the time I thought it was the most unique thing in the world; I even boasted on the front page that it was the only site made entirely of text. I have since learned that I am not alone in my interest in this unique art form. If you are interested in seeing some other people's work after u browse mine, you can start with the links at the bottom of this
page.
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