Keyboard art-ASCII

     Remember when you were a child connecting small dots to create a picture? Now imagine those dots as letters, numbers and Symbols. That is what ASCII Art is.  ASCII artists create a picture starting with a plain text file. Using keys on the keyboard the artist slowly develops a picture one key stroke at a time. This type of drawing seems to be extremely time consuming. Not only do you have to draw a picture you have to plan out what letter would be best where. Shading with this type of art is important even though it is just characters from the keyboard. Large letters are grouped together to aid in the process of darkening the image.

Ami Mizuno by Tim Park (Park)

                I find this type of art intriguing. A whole picture made with letters. This type of art is nothing new. People used text as art even in late 1800’s, a few years after the invention of the type writer. Back then, it was called “Typewriter art” (history) .  It was used to decorate books such as bibles and other books. The artists sometimes compete in typewriter art contests. In today's age we use these pictures in emails to bypass the memory limit of just mb.

      Some people just do it for fun. Artists are able to copy and paste on anything they want. I’ve seen such artworks in  comment sections around youtube. Some are cute animals, but some are filled with profanity. They are all interesting since it is just random characters on a page. Take a look at this one by Tim Park.  This picture is of Ami Mizuno aka Sailor Mercury from the Sailor Moon tv show. From far away the viewer cannot tell that it was composed of keystrokes. The picture looks like a normal drawing until the viewer  zooms in. That is where the magic happens. This is the power of ASCII.

Works Cited

history. n.d. 19 11 2017. <http://www.oocities.org/spunk1111/history.htm>.

Park, Tim. Ami Mizuno. 19 11 2017. <http://www.chris.com/ascii/index.php?art=anime%20and%20manga/sailor%20moon>.

                                               

Pixel Project-Minecraft abstract self portrait

Minecraft abstract self portrait

     For this project I used mincraft to design a abstract self portrait of myself in a pixel form. Here is some background of me and Minecraft. There are three modes in the game-Survival,Hardcore, and Creative mode. Most of my experience has been in survival. I knew it wouldn't be the best mode to design. Imagine having limited sources, hunger, and monsters to worry about when creating something unique. Not to mention you could die and lose your items and sense of where your project is on the map. I used creative mode to get this project done-monster would still be there but they won't attack and the player has no hunger meter or health meter to worry about.

I made a empty flat world for the design.

Close up air shot of the design

 Please don't pay attention to the green blobs. they are some of the monsters in the game.(Pesty things like to walk or plop all over my design.)

My avatar demonstrating my measurement tools

I used these fence panels as a canvas boarder. I used ground lights a measurement tool because it centers right on the square.

Here is a better view of the design:

Far away air shot of design

Here are the measurements:

one light post equals one cube

34 Cubes

40 cubes

34 Cubes

40 cubes

We will need to calculate the mincraft's measurements into real wold units. Take a look at this table down below;

Table by  minecraft.gamepedia.com

1 block or cube equals 16 pixels so:

34 Cubes*16=554pixels

40 cubes*16=640pixels

34 Cubes*16=554pixels

40 cubes*16=640pixels

Inches

1 block equals one meter which equals 39.3701

34 Cubes*39.3701=1,3338.58 inches

40 cubes*39.3701=1,574.8 inches

34 Cubes*39.3701=1,3338.58 inches

40 cubes*39.3701=1,574.8 inches