There are few things more iconic than an ASCII signature for a wildlife advocate. You may not know the reference but you’ve all seen one. Even the ubiquitous colon and bracket smile is one. Wikipedia says:
ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII). The term is also loosely used to refer to text based art in general. ASCII art can be created with any text editor, and is often used with free-form languages. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, as on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation.
So I’ve seen signatures with ASCII owls and ASCII mountains and recently received an ASCII steelhead and I was just wondering if there were any ASCII beavers out there…see for your self. The three letters at the corner are the initials of the artist.
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Excellent start! I’d like the tail to be a little bigger though. Obviously this is a kit.
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I love that nose, eye and ear placement. The accuracy is better than at least half the photos you see of ‘beavers’ on google….since they’re mostly nutria anyway.
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But of course this is the blue-ribbon winner. A beaver chewing down a tree! What ambition! Smart work, although the tail is still too small, and if you’re going to fill it with random letters why not spell out BEAVER???
Well, its obviously an artform that takes a certain amount of faith, because the individual lines don’t always look like much but the whole picture usually does. These were borrowed from Chris Johnson’s Website where you can find literally every animal, object, concept, feature or plant imagined. My favorite has to be the Egyptian Ibis which is just lovely. A special treat is the Castle section which will completely blow you away. There are tutorials on how to develop this art yourself and I’m hoping some creative soul with time on their hands will look into adapting our logo. Wouldn’t that make an excellent signature?
