ASCII is a standard that identifies letters, numbers, and various symbols by code numbers for exchanging data between different computer systems. [Full form American Standard Code for Information Interchange]. Do u think you can use ASCII for drawing pitures?, it is very very interesting to create a ASCII art.To programmers it is just like a game or puzzle, to others...it is difficult..So what is the advantage or difference using ASCII pictures, prevent miss use of ur pictures.....for fun. Here is sites where u can change ur picture into a ASCII picture, Degrave,Glass Giant help u to do so. There are lots of collection of ASCII art is also available , they provide ASCII picture for special moments,or funny,animal pics... University of Michigan provide such a good collection... You can also create ASCII picture of WORDS too,site like ASCII Genenerator will help u....try to create some ASCII picture of urs by any Programming language,C/C++,JAVA,or any scripting languages... OTHER ASCII collections r: typorganism