Sir Martian
A robot that chats you up, then draws your portrait.
Sir Martian is a street portrait artist who happens to be a robot. Sit down and he looks you over, beret, scarf, big curious eyes, and starts asking about you: what you love, what you do, what makes you interesting. Every answer changes what he draws.
The portrait is no photo filter. It grows out of the conversation, drawn stroke by stroke with the pen in his hand, and no two ever come out the same.
Most of the work happened before anything moved. Who he is, where he is from, why he draws strangers at all: the character had to hold up on its own before any technology could carry it. Then the encounter itself, how you approach him, what he notices first, the order of his questions, how long he holds a look, what his hands do while he thinks, when the talking stops and the pen starts. The scripts were read out loud and rewritten until the tone landed on charming instead of uncanny, and the whole sitting was mapped as a flow with a proper ending: the drawing comes off the board and into your hands.
Under the character sits a team of AI agents working together: one watching through his eyes, one listening, one keeping the chat on track, and one turning it all into drawing instructions for his arm. Fourteen motors move his head, chest, and hands. Built by the Monks team as a living demo of personalized creativity.
