The Ascii Project

One of our smaller briefs is to create a character using ascii art. At some point we will have to animate that character but at the moment I am just trying to focus on things to explore within that seemingly very limited medium. To be honest, I thought I would hate this project when I heard about it as it was very far away from anything I had done before and didn't look that interesting but I am enjoying it now. It feels a lot more free than I had expected and doing something so different is actually quite relaxing. 



I used photoshop to make these as it made it quite easy to use layers to create shading but I would like to experiment with a typewriter too. I was really inspired by this BBC News broadcast about Keira Rathbone, who works solely using a typewriter. Her work is astonishingly beautiful.