Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Artist creates gorgeous sketches using an analog typewriter

James Cook is reviving the arcane art of creating images with an analog typewriter, aka the original ASCII art:

This is vol. 2 of the production of my typewriter art from various scenes around the Essex countryside in the summer of 2020. The three "typicitions" were drawn from observation at the historic Layer Marney Tower, Tollesbury Marina and Thaxted Parish Church. These drawings were typed on my 73" Silverreed 200 and I managed to get through a couple of ribbons on these pieces of work!

He did part one before the pandemic:

Here he creates Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor Who, on a manual typewriter, no less!

Image: YouTube / James Cook