This a little tutorial about how my -grayscale girl- was made. Just though that some of you might be interested.
Drawing grayscale ascii art is very time consuming but I could save a few hours work using Jave.
The idea behind this was to set the overall shape of the drawing.
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The idea was to use the gradient tool to fill the legs. To obtain a nice shading effect I had to fill them separately. So I erased one leg, closed the gaps and erased the shadows around the knees and toes.
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The next step was to make a custom gradient in the Fill Options panel:
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Then I changed the last setting to:
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The left leg was made the same way.
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