Outline ASCII art example

Outline ASCII art generator

Contours from slashes and pipes

Outline ASCII art traces only the contours of the subject using slashes, backslashes, pipes, underscores, and parentheses, leaving the interior empty. A clean, line-drawing approach to ASCII art that feels hand-sketched.

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Community outline art

Duży pies

Duży pies

Słodki piesek

Słodki piesek

Black-and-white ASCII portrait of an anime-style person with shaggy hair.

Black-and-white ASCII portrait of an anime-style person with shaggy hair.

Monochrome ASCII art of a smiling person inside a circular outline.

Monochrome ASCII art of a smiling person inside a circular outline.

White ASCII-style outline of an airplane against a black background

White ASCII-style outline of an airplane against a black background

White ASCII art outline of a face on a black background

White ASCII art outline of a face on a black background

Monochrome ASCII art depicting a tall rectangular outline with dotted details.

Monochrome ASCII art depicting a tall rectangular outline with dotted details.

a majestic lion head facing forward

a majestic lion head facing forward

Cat holding a sign saying “Sign Up for Foundry, we need you! It’ll be fun!

Cat holding a sign saying “Sign Up for Foundry, we need you! It’ll be fun!

Create a highly detailed ASCII art portrait of Red John from The Mentalist, showing only his iconic smiling face. Make the face a large, perfectly circular shape with no elements extending outside the circle. Use only standard keyboard punctuation and ASCII characters such as . , : ; ' " - _ ( ) [ ] { } / \ | + * # @. The face should be wide rather than tall, with realistic facial proportions, clearly defined eyes, eyebrows, nose, cheeks, and Red John's distinctive wide, unsettling smile. Add 1 or 2 tiny tear drops falling from the eyes. Use dense shading and many different ASCII characters to create realistic depth, shadows, wrinkles, and facial details. Keep everything strictly inside the circular outline. No text, no background, no body, no hair outside the circle, no symbols outside the circle. Maximum 2000 characters. The final result must look like detailed, realistic ASCII art rather than a simple emoticon.

Create a highly detailed ASCII art portrait of Red John from The Mentalist, showing only his iconic smiling face. Make the face a large, perfectly circular shape with no elements extending outside the circle. Use only standard keyboard punctuation and ASCII characters such as . , : ; ' " - _ ( ) [ ] { } / \ | + * # @. The face should be wide rather than tall, with realistic facial proportions, clearly defined eyes, eyebrows, nose, cheeks, and Red John's distinctive wide, unsettling smile. Add 1 or 2 tiny tear drops falling from the eyes. Use dense shading and many different ASCII characters to create realistic depth, shadows, wrinkles, and facial details. Keep everything strictly inside the circular outline. No text, no background, no body, no hair outside the circle, no symbols outside the circle. Maximum 2000 characters. The final result must look like detailed, realistic ASCII art rather than a simple emoticon.

Create the iconic Red John smiley face symbol from The Mentalist, exactly like the simple smiley face Red John draws on walls at crime scenes.

Only one large, perfectly round circle. Inside the circle: two simple dark eyes and one extremely wide, curved, sinister smiling mouth. The design must be minimalist and recognizable, not a realistic human face. Add one or two tiny tear drops beneath the eyes. No head, no hair, no ears, no nose, no realistic facial features, no background, no text.

Convert it entirely into ASCII art using only keyboard punctuation characters. Make the circle large and horizontally wide. Keep every single character strictly inside the circular outline. The final result should look like a clean, hand-drawn Red John smiley symbol made entirely from punctuation marks, with dense but simple ASCII detail. Maximum 1000 characters.

Create the iconic Red John smiley face symbol from The Mentalist, exactly like the simple smiley face Red John draws on walls at crime scenes. Only one large, perfectly round circle. Inside the circle: two simple dark eyes and one extremely wide, curved, sinister smiling mouth. The design must be minimalist and recognizable, not a realistic human face. Add one or two tiny tear drops beneath the eyes. No head, no hair, no ears, no nose, no realistic facial features, no background, no text. Convert it entirely into ASCII art using only keyboard punctuation characters. Make the circle large and horizontally wide. Keep every single character strictly inside the circular outline. The final result should look like a clean, hand-drawn Red John smiley symbol made entirely from punctuation marks, with dense but simple ASCII detail. Maximum 1000 characters.

Myosotis or The Forget-Me-Not flower.
Create a front-facing ASCII art flowerhead inspired by the Myosotis/forget-me-not symbol used by the Index from Library of Ruina. Flowerhead only — NO stem, NO leaves.
The flower must be perfectly centered and radially symmetrical, with a small circular center and five broad, leaf-like petals radiating outward from it.
The petals should look like wide, curved flower-leaf surfaces viewed from the front, with layered inner contour lines that give them a 3D/folded appearance. They should extend clearly outward in five directions rather than forming a closed oval or rose.
Do NOT draw a rose, daisy, generic flower, or individual thin petal outlines. The petals should resemble broad flowing shapes, like five curved pieces of fabric/leaf material spreading from the center.
Use detailed ASCII/Unicode linework, with the central point exactly centered horizontally and vertically. Keep the entire flowerhead symmetrical around that center. radial flowerhead glyph,Do not enclose the flower in an outer circle or oval.

Myosotis or The Forget-Me-Not flower. Create a front-facing ASCII art flowerhead inspired by the Myosotis/forget-me-not symbol used by the Index from Library of Ruina. Flowerhead only — NO stem, NO leaves. The flower must be perfectly centered and radially symmetrical, with a small circular center and five broad, leaf-like petals radiating outward from it. The petals should look like wide, curved flower-leaf surfaces viewed from the front, with layered inner contour lines that give them a 3D/folded appearance. They should extend clearly outward in five directions rather than forming a closed oval or rose. Do NOT draw a rose, daisy, generic flower, or individual thin petal outlines. The petals should resemble broad flowing shapes, like five curved pieces of fabric/leaf material spreading from the center. Use detailed ASCII/Unicode linework, with the central point exactly centered horizontally and vertically. Keep the entire flowerhead symmetrical around that center. radial flowerhead glyph,Do not enclose the flower in an outer circle or oval.

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