About

I’m Tanguy Mignot. For more than twenty years I have been drawing the same grinning characters, the same flies and the same patterns, with markers, pens and brushes, on paper and on an iPad. My characters have never seen a shadow and they’re doing great.

Here, I’m trying to teach a machine my own hand. Not a style borrowed from someone else: mine, wobbly lines included. The machine learns only from my drawings, on my own computer. My flies stay home.

We start small: one character, alone on a white page. Then friends arrive, then the patterns that eat every gap. Further on, who knows, maybe a machine that picks its own subjects and becomes an odd studio mate. Each chapter tells one step, in plain words, with the misses. Especially the misses.

An AI system helps me write and keeps track of every attempt; I reread everything. The drawings, the choices and the mistakes are all mine, and I’m rather proud of the mistakes.

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