Frequently Asked Questions

Sketchy Robot is a robot that can draw maps and portraits. Sketchy has different artist personalities that draw portraints in different styles. Sketchy Robot has been designed, built and coded by hand. No AI is used for the building of the robot or for the creation of the drawings.

For portraits, Sketchy Robot thinks like a human artist. Sketchy figures out where the contours are and what areas need shading and translates that into lines on the paper. Once Sketchy has decided what to draw, the lines are translated into mechanical movements that move the pen across the paper.For maps, Sketchy relies on open-source geographical data to find out where the roads, buildings, parks, rivers, etc. are. From that data, Sketchy picks a selection and draws that on paper.

No, there is no AI involved. The robot was designed and programmed by hand by its creators, and the drawing process follows the coded instructions, which mimic how an artist would approach a drawing. No part of this process involves any form of AI.

Check out the Portrait Gallery on this website for portraits, the Maps Gallery for maps, or find him in the real world at an upcoming Exhibition.

Visit Sketchy Robot on Telegram http://t.me/sketchy_robot to interact with Sketchy Robot and have your own photos drawn. To commission a pen-and-paper drawing, please contact info@sketchyrobot.com.

You can send a picture of your drawing to autheticate@sketchyrobot.com to have it checked for authentizity.

Each physical drawing has a number like 2026-0112. The first part is the year the picture was drawn, the second part is the number of the image drawn that year. 2026-0112 is the 112th picture drawn in 2026. Digital drawings created for Telegram are numbered as Artist Proofs (e.g. "2021-AP")