(edit: Thank you =kreelah for the new title. The previous one was a Baby Dragon and the Aurora)

^{Sorry for the veeery long description. The last paragraph is about the creation process, you can skip it if you're not interested.}

This was done on PabloDraw, but the main difference between this one and my other works is the font (oh, and the colours too). This font is the MS-DOS 80x50 font, it's called like that because a 640x480 screen is 80 characters wide and 50 characters tall. As you can see, the characters are almost square, and if you view it with almost any other font, it will look completely distorted. Um. Anyway. I chose this font because I'm nostalgic. I had a very old computer and it worked with that font. The colours are ANSI colors, that's why this is in the ANSI section. It's basically coloured ASCII, but since it's something more than just plain ASCII, I didn't want to submit it there.

Now, to the process (oh, I love to explain the process, it makes it all worthwhile!).

1. I made some experiments to get used to this font, and I found out that 8 is the best filler (because $ looks odd). I found the perfect gradient to be 8O%:'. The concept I had in mind was completely different from this, I wanted something like a cocoon in the center of a checkered board.


2. I started with the head and the eye made of 8's, and went antialiasing at the same time. I drew a weird shapeless thing instead of the body. At this stage, I tried many different characters for the antialiasing, and the brackets seemed to work perfectly. The concept went through many stages (an alien, the sea, the space) until getting to the dragon. I ended up with the eggs, the dragon, the sky and the floor, and started making the gradients.


3. I found the sky to be too plain, so I added the two "planets" in violet. Everytime I add a new element on a background, I have to carve a black outline around, so I did that. The planets didn't look good in solid style, so I shaded them too (using the same gradient I explained before, just modifying the shape).


4. To make the waves, I deleted some characters one by one until having outlined the shape, then I smoothed the outlines. As simple as that.

I really want to get that solid ASCII tutorial ready before next month. I hope it will help you understand all my verbose.

^{Note: This has absolutely nothing to do with the ASCII Art Revolutions contest. It's not worth submitting it and I have something else in mind... mwahaha.}