ASCII art is pretty old, I must say. It's not hard to find it on internet. I made an aproach by myself, involving Image manipulation and programming knowledge, so my method is not the only one, and likely not the best. I want to share how I do those, so here's a quick explanation.
I got interest in ASCII art since I've known yourworldoftext.com. Yes... I have a page and there's an unsaved ASCII Darth Vader. If you want to see, http://yourworldoftext.com/~KDASthenerd/art
First I started playing with those characters "█▓▒░", that can be acquired by pressing alt+219 or 178 or 177 or 176. Those 4 shades can work with spa