MY FAVORITE ASCII DRAWINGS

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MY FAVORITE ASCII DRAWINGS
(that are not my work)...
PAGE II

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On to small collections of animals by Seal and Row...
I like nearly all of their ASCII art creations...
I've just chosen a representative few.
Visit their homepages to see more of their work.

--=[ANIMAL COLLECTION]=-- by Armando Frazao (Seal)
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[RABBIT] by Catalyst

This is a beautiful picture of a bunny made by someone who was
out of ASCII art before I even started into it.

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As you can probably tell, I prefer and enjoy the line-style
ASCII... The solid-style ASCII has always been difficult for me to see.
They are a little easier to visualize with light colored text on the
dark background, but is nearly impossible (for me) to decipher the opposite
unless I squint and blur my eyes. So when I saw the following on
Allen Mullen's home page, I had to call everyone into the room to see...
---> COLORIZED Solid-Style Ascii drawinggs <--- This was the first
time I had ever seen the ASCII pictures in color! Way Cool, IMO.
Check out this Tweety Bird! Many of his pictures are colorized.

-=[Tweety Bird]=- by Allen Mullen<

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Next, these favorites are from someone even newer to Ascii Art than myself.
These dragons are by Shanaka Dias who keeps improving with each picture he
makes... and to think that he asked *me* for tips! Sometimes I think I ought
to be asking him! (HIS WEBSITE IS NO LONGER ACTIVE)

He is very talented... he created the animated dog .gif on my main
page as well as the animated bubbles .gif on the aquatic creatures page!

-=[ DRAGONS ]=- by Shanaka Dias (snd)
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/___.-' \ \ _:,_ Curtin University " || (
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Another great newcomer to ASCII art is Glory Moon.
Here is one of her *first* ASCII pictures:
Watch for this gal!

--=[BRIDAL COUPLE]=-- by Glory Yp aka 'Glory Moon'

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Another great ASCII artist is Hayley Jane Wakenshaw also known as "Flump"... I just love her cute little animals... She does wonderful work!!
Here is a small collection-- be sure to visit her homepage to see all of her creations!

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Another newcomer to ASCII art is "Morfina" (aka mrf)

This Italian gent has created some wonderful animals
such as this elephant:

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$, .. .'OOO-'. ..'OOO'OOO-'. ..$,

and this tiny Bambi-- (oh, the small ones are so hard to do
and look right) Morfina's work is great!

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--"------"-"--"--

Morfina has also started to make some wonderful ASCII people
renderings... See this wizard:

____ Wizard by Morfina
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(________mrf\____.dBBBb.________)____)

Here is some wonderful work by Valkyrie, aka Marie Bird.
She is another "mom" who finds enjoyment by making these
ASCII pictures. Her mythological creatures and
'Sailor Moon' ASCIIs are just amazing.

-=[ SHARK ]=- by Valkyrie
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-=[ GARGOYLES ]=- by Valkyrie

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And while we're on the subject of gargoyles and mythical creatures, look at
this ASCII rendering of a griffon and dragon duking it out by Dan Hunt.
He has more mythical creatures on his homepage including JavaScript
animations...

-=[DRAGON AND GRIFFON]=- by Dan Hunt

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and finally, my most favorite line-ASCII artist of people
is Joris Bellenger...also known as B'ger.
My favorite work from him are the following...
They are also special because he made them for me! ;)

--=[AQUATIC GODDESS]=-- by Joris Bellenger (B'ger)
__________________________________________________________
|\________________________________________________________/|
|| ||
|| %%%%%%%%%%%%%% ||
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|| `*%%*%%%%* | / | ~~ ~ ||
|| ~ |/ \| ||
|| / /| ||
|| /| \| b'ger ||
|| |/ ||
||________________________________________________________||
|/________________________________________________________\|

(You can see it colorized on my "swimming" ASCII art page...)

here's another Aquatic Goddess:
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/\\/
\/ ~~ ~

-=[Joan of ASCII]=- by Joris Bellenger

(\_______
\\ \___________________
\\ Joan \ \
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/ \_| / o)____,/ / \\
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/___________________________\
|___________________________|
| |
| ___________________ |
| | | |
| | | |
| | S P U N K | |
| | 1 1 1 1 | |
| | | |
| | | |
| |___________________| |
| |
/|__________________b'ger|\
/___________________________\
|___________________________|

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Most of these works can be found by following the links...

Be sure to spend some time wandering around in cyberspace...
there is **a lot** of ASCII art to be found!

(BTW, I've included on this page the links to these artists homepages...)
If you leave, please do stop by here again! :)

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