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How to Make an Owl With Multiple Keyboard Lines

Creating shapes and images from letters is a well-established art, with historical examples ranging from J.S Bach's elegant monogram to typewriter art published in 1948 by Modern Mechanic magazine. ASCII art, named for the ASCII system of defining characters, is the modern equivalent of typewriter art, using the keyboard characters to draw a plethora of images. Owls are well suited to this art form, with curved bodies easily imitated using parenthesis, and big O shaped eyes.

Instructions

    • 1

      Type three spaces, followed by a circumflex accent, an underline and another circumflex accent. This creates the ears and top of the owl's head.
      The line should look like this: ^-^
      Press"Return" to go to a new line.

    • 2

      Type an opening parenthesis, lower case o, a comma, another lower case o and a closing parenthesis to form the owl's face.
      The line looks like this: (o,o)
      Press "Return" to go to a new line.

    • 3

      Enter a grave accent, then a quotation mark and an apostrophe. This creates the owl's body.
      The line should look like this: `"'
      Press "Return" to go to a new line.

    • 4

      Create the feet and a branch upon which the owl sits by typing two equals symbols, a quotation mark, another equals symbol, a quotation mark and two equals symbols to produce a line of text looking like this: =="="==

    • 5

      Check and adjust any spacing issues or typing errors to complete your ASCII owl.

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