What we need to do is to shrink the image to thumbnail size, then convert the image to monochrome. ), and by using the ‘weight’ of characters, you can build up an image. It’s the creative use of positive and negative space in typography some characters use more ink (like #) and some use less (like. I thought it would be fun to try to recreate this with photos.ĪSCII Art works by using bog-standard ASCII characters to build up an image. I think I drew on top of this with Crayola crayons.

I’m old school – I have vague recollections of seeing an ASCII art printout of Snoopy printed on mainframe feed paper as a child back in the 70s.