i'm confused... are you talking about Ascii and Ansi art? or font-making?
if it is the first. I know a ton about Ascii and how to go about creating art with letterforms on an even field.
Ansi uses more parts and field colors, not just text. Thats not my thing.
it is hard to demo ascii in a forum tho. It requires a font change to something like terminal.
however. The basics are easy enough to get and you can take say, a drawing of the logo you want, blow it up to the right size in photoshop, make a new layer, grab the text tool and have at it with a font like terminal, that is, one where i and W take up the same amount of space.
then you use different characters to represent different darknesses and forms. Example:
# is one of the darkest while . is one of the lightest.
#W8HSKUVTOI|;:,. is a good gradient.
however, a true Ascii piece will create shapes with the letters themselves and their forms... some examples.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/18257255/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/20151998/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/16500287/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/16202718/
all of these are by jSepia, one of the best Ascii artists I know of.
http://jsepia.deviantart.com/
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even without the right font, this shows well the gradienting..
if it is the first. I know a ton about Ascii and how to go about creating art with letterforms on an even field.
Ansi uses more parts and field colors, not just text. Thats not my thing.
it is hard to demo ascii in a forum tho. It requires a font change to something like terminal.
however. The basics are easy enough to get and you can take say, a drawing of the logo you want, blow it up to the right size in photoshop, make a new layer, grab the text tool and have at it with a font like terminal, that is, one where i and W take up the same amount of space.
then you use different characters to represent different darknesses and forms. Example:
# is one of the darkest while . is one of the lightest.
#W8HSKUVTOI|;:,. is a good gradient.
however, a true Ascii piece will create shapes with the letters themselves and their forms... some examples.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/18257255/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/20151998/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/16500287/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/16202718/
all of these are by jSepia, one of the best Ascii artists I know of.
http://jsepia.deviantart.com/
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even without the right font, this shows well the gradienting..