How do you turn a picture into symbols?

harvey-marshall_609578357f6e9

I've seen people do it I just don't know how

Example:

....................../´¯/)

....................,/¯../

.................../..../

............./´¯/'...'/´¯¯`·¸

........../'/.../..../......./¨¯\

........('(...´...´.... ¯~/'...')

.........\.................'...../

..........''...\.......... _.·´

............\..............(

Basically I want to know how to do that

mike1942-f

Aside from the rudeness of your example, it is called ASCII art (from the name of the character coding system) and you can look it up on Wikipedia and the Internet in general.