AI
Amandine Leblanc is a French AI designer working under the name Studio 13 Mai, with a practice built around Midjourney, Luma, and Flora. In the interview that follows, she speaks candidly about her artistic background, her sources of inspiration, and her own reservations about AI.
“Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal” Long before AI art, Steve Jobs said it in 1996, on camera, and credited it to Picasso. Since then, the line has become one of the most repeated phrases in artists and creative culture.
Jon Gesalaga is a contemporary artist working at the intersection of the human body, AI-generated imagery, and a personal history that goes back over two decades. His current project, De Anatomia II, is still in progress, and deliberately so.
Working under the name Eugène, this Paris-based AI illustrator and creative director has built one of the most instantly recognizable visual worlds in generative art today
Airiquel makes AI art that is immediately recognizable and difficult to shake. Her visual language is built from deep blacks, blood reds, neon accents, and what reads, from the outside, as a gothic-luxury atmosphere drawn from horror cinema, high-fashion editorial, and surrealist painting.
Some artists discover AI and adapt. Nicoletta discovered AI and accelerated. With over two decades of international advertising behind her, this Switzerland-based art director and graphic designer didn’t slow down, she shifted gears entirely.
Some creative professionals adopt new tools. Others interrogate them. The.Sycomore has spent the last three years doing the latter, building one of the most methodical and culturally grounded AI art practices in the field.
There are AI artists who generate images. And there are those who direct them. Delia Mija belongs firmly in the second category. Based in Bucharest, she spent fifteen years as an art director in advertising before generative tools existed: building campaigns, reading briefs, making things that had to work. That discipline never left. It just…
If you’ve been making AI art for any length of time, you’ve met them. People with strong, final opinions about your practice. Who have never seriously engaged with it.
For AI artists, “reading images” means moving beyond passive observation to active analysis, decoding structure, intent, and potential. This guide explains how to develop a critical eye, use visual veille (graphic watch) to fuel creativity, and transform inspiration into original AI art. Learn why seeing is a skill, how to avoid reproduction pitfalls, and practical…