deviantART: Popular ANSI

Goku

Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:56:46 PDT

Old ansi from 1997 again! Made for a BBS called Moose City... I wonder if Catonica is still around...

l-easter

Wed, 03 May 2006 04:04:31 PDT

Drawn in roughly four hours easter morning for a pack that ended up not being released on easter. cheers.

deviantART ANSI Logo

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 01:33:10 PDT

deviantART ANSI Logo by Roy/SAC. This is the colored "ANSI" Version of the deviantART "ASCII" I uploaded earlier (see here: [link] ).

Who said Text Art is dead? It seems to be kick-in butt in it's coffin. Somebody must have forgotten the nails .
But if you can't stand Text Art for whatever reason ... may be a deviantGoogle pixel art something like this preview or so will get you excited.

Brainchild

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:59:44 PDT

One of my personal favourites from the Sztuka release in 1999. Konami/Dr. Shizuma had a bare outline hanging around and I went mental on it, creating... this. Consider it a bit of a companion piece to Mycologik - another work of creative energy which focuses on the process of creation itself.

Statement ..

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:21:09 PDT

Thanky you for understanding!

::GIII. SixteenColors.NET

Thu, 22 Jul 2004 07:24:47 PDT

textmode graphic art for [link]

tools used : pablodraw (xp application) / aciddraw (dos touchups)

my latest official ansi release, its been two years prior to this since i last dabbled in the medium -

and for those of you who are unaware, ansi , alike ascii are mediums based on the standard DOS character set of back in the good old bbs (bulletin board system) days - with a 16 color limitation. Ansi was used as a promotional tool for all kinds of computer related material of that era, as large and indepth as the underground art scene was in its prime (lasted over 10 years beleive it or not) its days are numbered down to a few diehard fans such as myself who still to this day find time to dabble in such a basic yet complex medium.

for any of you who might be interested in trying your hand at such a sport, you can find a windows ansi editor @ the following link
[link] (dl pabloDRAW)

I believe

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:46:50 PDT

I had it in my unfinished works for a long time, and a few days ago `diamondie reminded me that the Text Art gallery is in desperate need of some true text art. I took my old drawing, added the curves to the text and drew the circles again because I didn't like the original antialiasing. I'm trying some new techniques, as always; I replaced o and n by y because it covers the lower area. This looks perfect when you're filling with $, which also reaches lower, but don't try it with "normal" fillers such as 8, M, O or any common letter/number. I also discovered the character !, which is great for very slanted diagonals. I'm really proud of the antialiasing this time, and that's the main reason why I'm posting this picture, so that other ASCII artists can learn from it.

About the concept itself, I can't deny I took it from the X-Files ("I want to believe"). The weird circles are similar to the mysterious circles found in that wheat field, you know the story. They said they were drawn by an UFO, but years later, two people claimed to be responsible for the drawings. Who knows.

Personally, I do believe in extraterrestrial life. They could be ultra-smart yellow aliens or little bacterias, but I'm sure they exist.

As always, press "Download to Desktop" to get the original .ans file, and check my Solid ASCII Art Tutorial for more tips. To ASCII and ANSI artists, please show us your best work, the Text Art gallery needs you more than ever!

Edit: Thanks to ~DampeS8N and `diamondie for the tips. I changed all the @'s to #'s. I also added antialiasing marks in some of the letters. There was a grey oval in the top left corner, I replaced it with this weird thing

Jark the ASCII Jedi

Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:25:09 PDT

This is my contribution to the support °jark movement, Jark using his probe as a lightsaber. I'm an ASCII artist, so making an ASCII picture was the obvious contribution. I've uploaded it to the ANSI gallery, as I've used ANSI color codes to color it. The picture you get by clicking the Download link is the ASCII text version, though.

Drawn in JavE, polished and colored in ACiDDraw. The shading didn't really turn out how I wanted, but hopefully it's good enough. I've used a wide variety of antialiasing characters here, I kept j and L which I used in Currywurst and also added Y, < and > to the mix. Still decided to use + for some places and ended up not using 7 or 4. Tried an entirely new technique (new for me, I mean) for the trail of the lightsaber probe, I hope it looks good.

Bismarck

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:16:22 PDT

Promo for the song bismarck by straffet. [link]

Cyan Demon

Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:05:30 PST

My latest ansi.

X Plant

Wed, 19 May 2004 18:00:27 PDT

Based on the work of Kelly Freas, as noted... be sure to view the FULL version!

Originally released with the ZXICA archive in 1996.

Cows

Sun, 22 Aug 2004 03:30:02 PDT

Yet another OLD ansi from around 97-98 I think. Based off a Larson comic. It's a bin, which means it is 160 chars wide instead of the usual 80.

Manet Funk

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:13:15 PDT

Joint with Seph for sadist #6 artpack.

Trapped Under Ice Promo

Mon, 02 May 2005 14:28:12 PDT

Borock Obama meme 2!

Wed, 29 May 2013 02:48:49 PDT

Another version!

Don't let your mistakes Beat you down

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:58:36 PDT

its ok we all make mistakes....good or bad it does matter dont let that bring you down try to fi the mistake and dont keep doing it or it will only make things worse

spirt day

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:02:00 PDT

hiya,

today is spirt day, (i only found out today)
i love the idea of it, all the teens that have suffered from comments about the gender they love.

hope u like x

tg list

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:29:06 PDT

Television

Mon, 09 Jul 2001 12:38:30 PDT

Television. 25 line original ansi.

Cutie Mark Crusaders ANSI

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:11:34 PDT

Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom.
Another ANSI picture of MLP:FiM.
I did not get it look better~.
Cutie Mark Crusaders.

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Megaman meme

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:45:21 PDT

I do not own the photo of megaman in this but I own the text. Credit to original owner of the photo of megaman :3

Karl's Rape Face

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:12:15 PDT

I ask all my friends and they all agreed this is Karl's rape face
and most of them are dirty minded

Q-Bic 1999

Mon, 02 Aug 2004 10:13:48 PDT

The final piece from my last full release in 1999... a favourite of many over the years... look at it any way you like - shallow or deep you'll find something aesthetically pleasing or intellectually stimulating. You can consider it something as trite as Q*bert on LSD, or as symbolic commentary on the rules of life, as per your liking.

A note about the length of the intro on top... ANSI used to be viewed on BBSes where the piece would scroll down, only showing 25 lines at a time. The cube field on top was intended to mesmerize before subtly breaking into the three-eyed bird. Nowadays I know it just doesn't work so I'm re-visiting this piece and will some day put up a modern-day remix that is more artistically cohesive and streamlined... but for now, I think you'll agree it's impressive enough to put online as is

This is pretty much the last of my old material (released 1999 with Sztuka) so unless I dig up something else from the past anything you see from here on in will be new work... have I mentioned how goddamn time consuming these things can be? Ah well... enjoy

Mami silicon,mami,quiero boobies de saandiaa

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:14:06 PDT

Sin

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:38:50 PDT

Contrary to popular opinion, sin is not doing something wrong. All who sin actually do it quite well. To understand sin we must first know its true meaning. Sin is rebellion against God. Some say that God does not have the right to tell us what to do, but if we consider that He created all things, it becomes obvious that He does have the right. And if we also take into account His love, benevolence and desire that mankind prospers, it is easier to understand the error of sin. Since none of us is without sin, it becomes obvious why we needed a Savior. Happy Easter.

Merlin and Arthur on Twitter

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:57:35 PDT

Cosmic Scars 1996

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 05:15:16 PDT

The main piece from ZXica, 1996. Rough and raw, but unconventional for its time, which has made it a favourite of many over the years. Subject: human destiny amongst the stars (a common theme of mine). Takes a lot from the golden age SF style common on five cent paperbacks from the 50s and 60s. (In fact, I vaguely recall lifting parts of this from different covers and stitching them together with some original glue.) At the time this was a bit of a shock to the ANSI world, as it was one of the earlier examples of ANSI art for art's sake (i.e., not an advertisement) on such a scale...

Jesus Saves

Fri, 03 May 2013 13:45:48 PDT

Acts 16:31

Kandinskii

Sat, 06 Aug 2005 10:44:38 PDT

I know the title is silly, but "Asciinski" sounds even worse.

For those who don't know, Wassily Kandinsky (1866~1944) is a wonderful russian painter, and one of my favourite artists. He is known for his abstract works, where lines, points and other geometric shapes evolve together in a seemingly chaotic harmony. My goal was to create something in Kandinsky's style, but through my own medium, ASCII art. Of course, I'm far from being the genius he was. This is just a rough likeness. I consider it slightly unfinished too.

I did this in two days (not continuously), using PabloDraw. I didn't do any previous sketch, I just started drawing right away after having studied some of his paintings. Most of the techniques used are described in my Solid ASCII Art Tutorial.

This is my entry for the ASCII Art Revolutions contest held by `diamondie. It's going under the Revolutionary Typesets category, just because it's colored. That's also the reason why I placed it in the ANSI section.

As always, you can press Download to Desktop to get the original .ans file.

Edit: Thanks to ~DampeS8N for the useful suggestions. I added and refined some of the black lines too, and edited the big purple circle. Added a bit of green in some areas.

Hatching at dawn

Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:13:07 PDT

(edit: Thank you =kreelah for the new title. The previous one was a Baby Dragon and the Aurora)

^{Sorry for the veeery long description. The last paragraph is about the creation process, you can skip it if you're not interested.}

This was done on PabloDraw, but the main difference between this one and my other works is the font (oh, and the colours too). This font is the MS-DOS 80x50 font, it's called like that because a 640x480 screen is 80 characters wide and 50 characters tall. As you can see, the characters are almost square, and if you view it with almost any other font, it will look completely distorted. Um. Anyway. I chose this font because I'm nostalgic. I had a very old computer and it worked with that font. The colours are ANSI colors, that's why this is in the ANSI section. It's basically coloured ASCII, but since it's something more than just plain ASCII, I didn't want to submit it there.

Now, to the process (oh, I love to explain the process, it makes it all worthwhile!).

I made some experiments to get used to this font, and I found out that 8 is the best filler (because $ looks odd). I found the perfect gradient to be 8O%:'. The concept I had in mind was completely different from this, I wanted something like a cocoon in the center of a checkered board.

I started with the head and the eye made of 8's, and went antialiasing at the same time. I drew a weird shapeless thing instead of the body. At this stage, I tried many different characters for the antialiasing, and the brackets seemed to work perfectly. The concept went through many stages (an alien, the sea, the space) until getting to the dragon. I ended up with the eggs, the dragon, the sky and the floor, and started making the gradients.

I found the sky to be too plain, so I added the two "planets" in violet. Everytime I add a new element on a background, I have to carve a black outline around, so I did that. The planets didn't look good in solid style, so I shaded them too (using the same gradient I explained before, just modifying the shape).

To make the waves, I deleted some characters one by one until having outlined the shape, then I smoothed the outlines. As simple as that.

I really want to get that solid ASCII tutorial ready before next month. I hope it will help you understand all my verbose.

^{Note: This has absolutely nothing to do with the ASCII Art Revolutions contest. It's not worth submitting it and I have something else in mind... mwahaha.}

Budder error

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:52:29 PDT

Ye I know this is the worst thing in sky army history but we have to protect the king!
[link] here is the link to we're I made this

:D

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:55:56 PDT

Aperture Science In Text

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:52:10 PDT

I was bored, so I made a text logo for the fictional laboratory in the video game "Portal."

You Prefer?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:24:09 PDT

Simple.
Do you prefer Nalu or Nali?

(I'm not sure if it's a good idea to ask... I might start war O.o)
Also. I won't reply to any comments in this post, well, it'll be too much to reply from XD

ANSI

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:59:04 PDT

This piece was originally conceived as an artistic statement: a plain representation of the four characters that have been arranged in millions of different ways to produce countless examples of ANSI art. When it was released, the only people viewing it would have already been well-versed in the technicalities of the medium, so it appeared as it would in a gallery, without any kind of elaboration. Considering most DA users have no idea what ANSI is all about, I am using the description of this piece to explain what it takes to make this kind of computer art...

ANSI is a very unique medium for creative expression. 16 predetermined foreground colours and half as many background colours form the palette. Shading is accomplished with the four characters depicted in the center of this piece, while shaping is made possible by four more "half blocks," each occupying a vertical strip left and right, or a square-like horizontal space up and down. These blocks are uneven; the long and skinny strips differ in width by a pixel's breadth, as do the top and bottom squares. These perturbations in the overall symmetry of complimentary characters has profound implications for the artist with a keen eye for detail, although such attention to subtlety is often overlooked (I digress).

The canvas is a grid 80 characters in width that varies in length according to however much time and effort the artist feels like investing. Traditionally, screen size has limited the way in which ANSI artwork is appreciated. When viewing a piece in DOS, only 25 lines of a piece were seen at a time. If an ANSI exceeded the dimensions of the screen, one would have to scroll up and down to get the feel of a piece, or flip to "VGA mode" to take it all in. This is akin to peering through a small window in order to examine a piece of art, or stepping back to view a painting through a telescope. Now that most ANSI viewing is done on the web, this facet of the text-mode tradition is almost completely overlooked.

Every block must be set by hand, in most cases. There are a few basic copy and paste functions in most ANSI editors, but they are not particularly useful for much more than basic outlining. Think of the effort required to individually select the colour and character of every block in one of the larger ANSI pieces. In a typical 200-liner there are 16000 blocks! Even if there is a lot of blackspace (our medium's natural equivalent to whitespace), it is a lot of work. Making ANSI is exhausting, time-consuming, and incredibly difficult, not unlike creating a floor mosaic with thousands of tiny ceramic tiles using a mismatched pair of chopsticks. No wonder most of the great works of this obscure medium were made by young artists in their teenage years--who else has the time for this kind of thing?

The ANSI specification has been around since the early dawn of the telecommunications era, but pre-Internet systems (BBSes) often maintained an austere and utilitarian appearance due to bandwidth constraints. Viewing a full-bodied ANSI on 2400 baud is excruciatingly slow, and completely unthinkable on the 300 baud modems typically used throughout the 1980s. As transfer rates increased, and user interface design became a selling point or source of prestige, the systems began to use ANSI art for menu design, loader screens, login matrices, and other such elements. Consequently, demand grew for elaborate full-scale ANSI art, and this spurned the development of the creative underclass.

In the period of 1991 to 1993, pioneering artists organized themselves into groups such as ACiD, iCE, and DARK, publishing regular (often monthly) "packs" collecting their work, which were almost exclusively advertisements for the selfsame Bulletin Board Systems that distributed their creations. Each subsequent year brought rapid innovation in style and content, from the "comic rips" of the early years to the complicated abstract creations that artists like myself pioneered in 1996 and onward. What had begun as an idle past-time and means to participate in the illicit warez trade rapidly became a highly active underground art scene. 1994 and 1995 were big years for ANSI art, although the medium was still restricted to advertisements and generally bereft of genuine originality. 1996 ushered in an explosion of creative experimentation that marks it as the peak year for the ANSI underground. After that, it was all downhill. Think of the history of computing as a continuum. The BBS era was made possible by the increase in transfer rates and proliferation of technology, but damned by the very same forces. It was a window of opportunity seized by tens of thousands of people all across the world, and summarily dismissed as the world moved on.

With the rise of the internet in the late nineties, BBSes began to die out en masse. In the process, the once thriving ANSI scene entered into a rapid period of decline. It was as if the entire movement had lost its purpose when the bubble burst. There had not been enough time for the medium to mature; it was still rooted firmly in the BBS realm. People that once lived and breathed blocky text-mode characters turned their interest towards other pursuits, trading in the frustrating difficulties of the ANSI medium for new practices beyond the borderlands of the underground digital art scene. By 2001, many of the old masters had disappeared entirely, prestigious groups had stopped releasing ANSI or were nowhere to be found, and it seemed as if this blinding phase in the history of digital art had been swept away by the rapid institution of constant change.

Since then, there has been a small revival of the medium by artists new and old. The IRC channels, once flooded with the spastic chatter of unruly teenagers, now ebb and flow with the resigned serenity of adulthood. It has become less serious in a way... no longer an adolescent proving ground for the social challenges of life ahead. There are those that still love the medium, but they are few and far between. Nubile notions of fame and prestige no longer drive the masses to produce. The only reasons left are abstract and obscure fragments of a divine ideal. Passion runs thin in the digital outback. Hobbyists will continue to dabble... some of us old-timers might lay down a block or two every now and then... but you really have to respect the amount of time involved in making these strange and peculiar creations. In the "golden era" such a commitment was never questioned; it was expected. To see that someone far removed from this entire history might make the effort is truly impressive...

And so, while the past history of ANSI is mainly inscrutable to all but the veterans, the future is sure to slowly bring out styles in an archaic medium which had never been imagined, back in the day. ANSI is a happy accident... the joys of which can only be understood after undergoing the grueling labour necessary to create a great work within its limiting confines. So, with that in mind, I greatly encourage the hobbyists of DA to give it a whirl

Illuminati

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:47:04 PST

Yep it's an ambigram.
Guess I stole it from Dan Brown.

Ride.

Wed, 22 May 2013 17:03:01 PDT

TeHe

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:47:44 PDT

Lol

Tg Caption 2

Mon, 06 May 2013 00:04:05 PDT

Not my picture but my caption.

Theoretically

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 14:45:17 PDT

My latest ansi. Original content.

hoth

Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:38:23 PDT

originally in Epic #5

this was a joint pic with Zero Vision of GLUE, i did the outlines and he did the shading. i think it turned out ok.

Overkill

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 18:47:34 PDT

I'm back! I watched BRS and thought it was quite interesting. So, here ya go!

Source: Black★Rock Shooter
Black★Rock Shooter (Anime) Ⓒ Ordet. All Rights Reserved. I am not affiliated with Black★Rock Shooter in any way.

The Amazing World of Gumball's PART TIME JOB

Tue, 07 May 2013 02:01:03 PDT

what if TAWOG had a parody similar to SONIC FOR HIRE?
If I would be making a comic of this, this would be the plot
"Gumball wants to buy a new video-game console, but his mother wants him to learn the value of money and try to earn his own money. Gumball decides to work for his fellow classmates to assist them in their needs, or works"

Chapter 1-Test Monkey- Bobert
Chapter 2-Ritual Assistant- Carrie
(need more ideas)

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Wed, 01 May 2013 01:43:21 PDT

Nightwing.jpg

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:58:03 PDT

us-trek.ans

Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:24:12 PDT

jointed with discyple. it's huge.

us-dan1.ans

Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:33:20 PDT

Released in Danone-03, joint with discyple. Freshmode.

So true.

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:35:51 PDT

i didn't make this. i found it. it so amazing how true that is. how many of you agree?? am so freakn stress out. science and history starr next week. but at least am getting cake tommorow. Am going to bring choclate surup so i can put on my cake and get crazy)

Out of It

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:55:12 PST

Keyboard drawing in pablodraw with msdos ansi restrictions. For blocktronics artpack "codename chris wirth".

File used for brad sucks - out of it record cover.

[link]

7h3 67 409

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:58:21 PST

Keyboard drawing in pablodraw with msdos ansi restrictions. For blocktronics artpack "codename chris wirth". [link]

This piece was created on Blocktronics pablodraw server with additions from the visitors. Main composition by bym. Main artwork by bym, avg and pook.

RedRobin.jpg

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:14:55 PDT

He wrote this

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:07:34 PDT

My bf wrote me this its so sweet

Someone IS there

Sat, 04 May 2013 20:55:49 PDT

I'm posting this because I watched something pretty depressing just now and wanted to tell anybody that might be struggling that people are there for you. It may not seem like things will ever get better but they do. They really do. Please, do not feel like you're alone, because you're not. People love you and, even if you don't see it, people will be hurt if you leave.

That's all I've got to say.

If you're struggling and feel alone, find someone and talk to them. Heck, talk to me. Even just Talking can help sometimes.

Grid-Tron-ics

Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:12:06 PDT

A Tron: Legacy inspired ANSI bomb brought to you by Rodamned, featuring characters and light jet vehicles from the movie.

Mycologik

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:57:05 PDT

<>... originally released in 1999 with the SZTUKA package, the last official solo release from my Dieznyik alias. Full of symbolism and hidden meanings... of all my work this is perhaps the one I am most satisfied with.

Go To Sleep...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 03:25:17 PDT

Jeff whas to lazy to write a description....

Void Zombie

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:27:51 PDT

This ANSi screen is for The Void, +o Grindstoned.

The Void

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:05:37 PDT

This is based on the original trippy artwork of Alex Grey from the tool album Lateralus, for Grindstoned and his bbs The Void.

DefCon 15 ANSI

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:53:06 PDT

My first new ANSI in months.

The DefCon ASCII I uploaded earlier was the basis for this DefCon ANSI. DefCon is an annual conference about computer security and is widely known as "Hacker Con". Learn more about DefCon [link]

I got the request to create an ANSI to be printed on a limited edition of DefCon T-Shirts. I could not say no to that. The DefCon 15 is happening in less than 2 weeks in Las Vegas and I will be there.

You Cannot Grasp

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:42:06 PST

For all the EarthBound fans

Update:

Some trivia for you.

Shigesato Itoi has revealed in interviews that Giygas' dialogue in Mother 2/EarthBound was inspired by a traumatic childhood experience where he mistakenly walked into an adult movie theatre and caught a glimpse of a sex/rape scene in the 1957 movie Kenpei and the Dismembered Beauty