Under pink lighting, a long-haired man wearing a crown of thorns gazes uncertainly past the viewer into the distance, the right side of his face dissolving into dithered shadow.
Mistigram: Happy #Easter! This #ANSIart portrait of #JesusChrist, titled Love is Vulnerability, was drawn by @mavenmob, winning 1st place in the @flashparty 2025 demoparty's extended text art compo. It was also included in the recent unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
A long strip of ANSI art depicting aliens beaming down from a UFO over a grassy field at night, with mountains in the distance, and walking down a path to greet us, the people of Earth. They are various flavors of animalistic, with pointed ears, long tails, and digitigrade legs; and have only three fingers on each hand. The most visible of these creatures are various bright colors and clad in bodysuits. A pink alien in white and a white alien in black walk together, a yellow alien in blue with a blue-tufted tail strides on after them, and a cyan alien in red with a red-tufted tail waves to Earthlings off-screen, close enough to us that we can see their black beady eyes. In the front, closest to us, is a green fish-like alien in red wearing red-rimmed glasses, smiling and waving to us while their fish tail swishes behind them.
Featured at Revision 2026 (@revision-party.bsky.social): "Greetings, Earthlings!", my PC ANSI entry to the ASCII/ANSI/PETSCII Compo!
#ANSIArt #SciFiArt #RevisionParty #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FurryArt #Art #Demoscene #Demoparty
A screenshot of Cyber Purge v2.21, running in ClassicZoo, taken during a cutscene. TAKAMIMI, the VR avatar of the hero Takami Bluesky, a big floating fennec fox head with detached arms and legs, is standing with a defiant expression on their face over the abstract background of a blazing aura in the shape and colors of the rainbow infinity symbol. Along the bottom of the screen is a single line of dialog: "I'm one of them."
Happy World Autism Acceptance Day from "Cyber Purge" v2.21, the final content update, released on February 21, 2026!
thegreenherring.itch.io/cyber-purge-...
#FurryArt #ANSIArt #IndieGame #ZZT #AutismAcceptanceDay #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Furry #Art
#ansiart @digolte.bsky.social because i needed forgiveness for setting fake notification badge server icon
ng upload later
#art #ansi-art
A human skull with glowing eyes extrudes, Videodrome-like, from the back of an external modem.
Mistigram: this spooky, Ringu-esque #ANSIart promo for #DeadModemSociety BBS was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in last month's unthemed new MIST0226 artpack collection.
The workstages of Kaoru fighting a robot! It started as a narrow strip, some stages were done on my Steam Deck at work, and the robot was drawn in a separate file before I merged it into the main one.
#Timelapse #FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
In this massive piece of ANSI art, at night, with the stars shining above, a long-necked Japanese marten person, a warrior mage standing on one leg on a wooden post in the middle of a lake, is casting a mystic fireball and aiming it a killer robot flying towards them. The mage is wearing a sleeveless robe with their hood up, their ponytail pushing it back, and a side slit that leaves their leg visible beneath their skirt. They are pointing at the giant orb in the middle of a robot flying with hover jets trying to attack them with four clawed tentacles. Its downwards jet is causing the lake water to ripple and splash with its force, reflections can be seen in the lake's surface, and the mountains surrounding the lake in the distance fade into the night sky.
Most mages need their feet on solid ground to cast magic, but Kaoru Morimoto (they/them) is not most mages.
#FurryArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
A rather pointy purple Gemenon logo floats prickly in a yellow miasma, casting diagonal green shadows below as its sharp angles on every letter but the O (it is hard to make an O pointy) cut trails in the haze.
Mistigram: this rather angular purple #ANSIart logo in promotion of Gemenon BBS was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in last month's unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
A purple-cowled power fantasy with a tremendous overbite looks back quizzically
Mistigram: a regretful reprint, this #ANSIart promo for #BlackSunshine BBS was drawn by Mavrik and released in the MIST0695 artpack collection released 31 years ago. It depicts the offbeat Image Comics hero #TheMaxx. RIP to his creator #SamKieth.
ANSI art of a large gray cat with green eyes sitting on an elongated ASCII smiley face. The cat (who also has a fluffy tail) looks quite pleased with itself, announcing that it has 'sit on hooman (sic).' The human (the smiley) looks a bit distraught, asking 'WHY.' Drawn using the DOS game creation system ZZT.
When your cat squishes the week out of you. #ansiart #asciiart #zzt #cats
A cute frothy cold beer states its name and strikes a sassy pose before a computer terminal, while refreshing bubbles float around the scene.
Mistigram: this social media posting may be the only place you get to see this #ANSIart illustration of internetting while drunk (not recommended), drawn by Picrotoxin and included in last month's new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
In the early 1990s, as BBSes turned into businesses, some sysops and developers started making real money.
Could ANSI artists and publishers do the same?
breakintochat.com/blog/2026/03...
Part 4 of my series "ANSI art and webcomics" is here!
#retrocomputing #ansiart #textmode #comics #digipres
ANSI art of a giant white monster with peering through a huge door at a smiley face in a blue cave. It's grasping the sides of the door as if leaning on it, or readying itself to leap through.
Here are the workstages of Kaoru Morimoto's (they/them) #ANSIArt portrait!
#Timelapse #FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry
After posting my #ANSIArt marten mage, I wondered, "How do they wear that hood with that ponytail?" And so I drew it. And then I gave them a name!
#FurryArt #Nonbinary #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #Furry
ANSI art of purple mecha drawn using the text-mode DOS game creation system ZZT, its body slightly twisted to face the viewer. It has rotary cannons mounted in its shoulders and wields a beam/light saber in its right hand.
Drew this a while back as a thank-you for a friend, meant to be piloted by a character he drew.
#mecha #asciiart #ansiart #scifi #zzt
Gairaigo is now released!
Inspiration drawn from #Kanji, #Shoji, #Kumiko, and #Hanafuda. Get it now ->
littlebitspace.com/resources#Gairaigo
#ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #art #bbs #text #textart #textmode #typography #typedesign #design #pixel #pixelart #font #japan
A hail of extraterrestrial life rains down on the planet Earth from deep space, leaving flaming trails as they enter the atmosphere at high speed.
Mistigram: this is a splash screen for a new, upcoming BBS door game titled #Exogenesis: After Earth. It was drawn in #ANSIart, along with quite a few in-game illustrations, by @zeusii.bsky.social , and they were included as a colly in last month's new MIST0226 artpack collection.
Here are the workstages of my #ANSIart marten mage!
#Timelapse #FurryArt #FantasyArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
Fuji in Bloom
New font in development. The second image is with default font
#art #ascii #asciiart #ansi #ansiart #bbs #computer #computerart #demoscene #digital #digitalart #text #textart #textmode #textpunk #8bit #8bitart #pixelart #pixel #fuji #japan #japanese#sakura #bloom #landscape
In this piece of ANSI art, a Japanese marten person with spiky black hair in a ponytail stands poised to fight in a dark forest, narrowing their eyes. They are dressed in a sleeveless red robe with a huge hood and a side slit, a set of gauntlets and a pair of ankle protectors. Next them is an inset box containing the same marten in the same pose, but in a tenth of the size, drawn entirely with blocks, shade characters and punctuation.
For #MartenDay, here's an #ANSIArt sprite of mine from 2023 redrawn at ten times the size! This marten's ready to rumble!
#FurryArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #FantasyArt #Nonbinary #Furry #Art
A snapshot of a gallery page from my website circa 2023 for a piece of ANSI art titled "Machine World" dated to March 11, 2023. In it, a featureless humanoid figure floats in a fetal position while surrounded by a green and dark gray bubble made of ones and zeroes, and with particles made of dots, ones and zeroes floating away from it. The ones and zeroes floating away are colored from white to green to dark gray. Around this figure, split across several lines, is a message reading, "In a machine world, / created by machine minds, / built by machine men, / can one truly call themselves free?" The picture is bordered on the top and bottom by a single line with gradient coloring from white to green to dark gray, with the artist signature "TGH!" on one side and the date 2023 on the other. Below the image, most of the text has been grayed out to highlight the following passage: "I imagined what would happen if the blowhards proposing generative AI as a replacement for humans got their way. A world governed by generative AI would be a horrific one, for an AI can only act based on what data is fed to it. Thus, an AI, by its very nature, does not possess the capacity for critical thinking, which is precisely what the machine men of fascism desire."
Happy anniversary to this conceptual art piece from 2023, in which I predicted genAI as a tool of fascism.
#SciFiArt #ANSIArt #TextmodeArt #PixelArt #Art #NoGenAI #NoAI
A magnificent flower emerging from a green grassy lawn opens its yellow petals to face the sun while dramatic clouds and tiny birds fly by behind it
Mistigram: "#ascii in the grasscii", a small and slowly-growing seed of #ANSIart from our mistfunk networked Moebius server, is the handiwork of LDA, sassafras and Moth, emerging just a few weeks before spring officially kicks in. It was included in the new unthemed MIST0226 artpack collection.
Slide en ANSI art dΓ©montrant que le cron n'est pas mort !
Suite au leak du site yggtorrent on peut s'apercevoir que les jobs cron ne sont pas mort ! π€£
#leak #yggtorent #cron #notdead #ansiart #asciiart
Reel-to-reel mainframe data tape storage stands against a cement bunker wall, a green glowing terminal console attached displaying an envelope, suggesting e-mail incoming.
Mistigram: this #ANSIart #mainframe and its green terminal quietly ping from the bottom of the fallout shelter in the basement of Convolution BBS at convolutionbbs.org. This #ANSIart screen was drawn by @zeusii.bsky.social and included in the new MIST0226 artpack collection.
a 3x3 grid of thumbnail images shows blocky images, composed of semigraphics symbols, depicting the dead and the resurrected, a skater, a fish, a xenomorph, and a flower, a graffiti tag, a snatch of song lyrics and an unimpressed egg.
Mistigram: when we have a decent showing of #ANSIart, as we do in the new MIST0226 artpack collection, we like to give a little overview of the range of pieces featured, some whimsical, some grim, some cartoony and others realistic, some promotional & others aesthetic in nature.
a 3x3 grid of thumbnail images shows blocky images, often composed of typographical symbols, depicting animals, people, a graffiti tag, a tea service and a talking class of frothy beer. (As one does.)
Mistigram: aside from some computer music, nearly everything in the new, unthemed MIST0226 artpack that just dropped is some form or another of #textart and #textmode art - here is a sampling of specimens of #ASCIIart, #ANSIart, #ATASCII, #PETSCII and #ShiftJIS contained therein.
A red walking tank with a heavy cannon slung on its underside and a number of lighter guns on its front and topside. A small viewport/camera looks to the front and three flare or grenade launchers are installed topside.
A dark brown (some shade of khaki?) mecha with two large shoulder mounted cannon stands with legs akimbo and fists clenched. The rear of the cannon appear to be sheathed in some kind of green fabric and a head with a red camera/viewport is dwarfed by the shoulder armour which house the cannons.
A purple bipedal mobile worker armed with a rotary cannon and an unguided rocket launcher stands by a small human figure with red hair dressed in blue and green. The way their hand rests on the cannon housing could be mistaken as the two holding hands, but the machine is unmanned. It shows some wear and tear and some stencils can be seen on its main body and arms. It's a sort of homage to/reboot of the terrible Famicom game Miracle Ropit-what if the game was good?
A humanoid head, apparently under liquid, looks morosely through a glass helmet that sits in the middle of some kind of powered armour.
I finished one of these yesterday so I thought I'd post some #ansiart I did of some #mecha using #zzt #scifi
