I know, you\'re all scared when you see a post of mine in this thread, knowing how badly my artwork sucks

However, I have started to dabble in the field of ASCII art. This is a trade long forgotten from the days before graphical interfaces came out. However, it is still a widely accepted form of artwork by netizens all over the globe.
Since my
first piece seemed to gain a bit of praise, I figured I\'d try my hand at it again. Only this time...something much more difficult.
Basically sucking as an artist in general, I started with a pre-fabricated image, located
here (I didn\'t link to their main site since it\'s down a lot) ? Triglow Pictures 2003. I took that, and ran an image filter on it to bring it down to the black borders between the major color areas. I then proceeded to type in text right over the image so I could match it as close as possible.
Well, I spent way too much time working on it, and no matter what I did it never looked nearly as good as I was hoping it would. But I\'ll post it here in hopes that a more experienced ASCII artist will come across it and hopefully give me pointers on improving my technique.
Don\'t take it to hard on me though; this is the first time I\'ve tried drawing something this complex:
(note: try taking a few steps back from your computer, it tends to look a bit better that way

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