Among the most discussed innovations of recent months there is certainly AI generated art.
What is it about? I will make a brief introduction for those unfamiliar with it.
It’s a digital illustration created by an artificial intelligence based on our description of what we want to see realized.
There are several AI generators: Dall-E, Midjourney, Wombo, etc. in web or app version. Just enter a command (eg “Italian zombie eating spaghetti with Super Mario“) and the artificial intelligence will generate a pretty realistic image in a few seconds.

One day I started playing around with Midjourney and after finishing my free trial generating random images of me, Berlusconi and Pekingese dogs in different situations, I switched to Wombo which is almost completely free.
It opened a whole world to me. My mind began to ask for more and more bizarre ideas that were generated almost faithfully or sometimes with unexpected surprises.

It was the beginning of September and I was thinking of a concept album to be released on Halloween, so I got help from Wombo and I started generating zombie images, then I asked myself: what if they were Italian zombies? What do Italian zombies eat? And how is it possible to kill them?
Also helped a little by current political events and the social situation of the moment, the light bulb turned on and I’ve written down a draft of a mini horror story. I generated lots of images until I found the ones that satisfied me the most and used them in my story.

Surely the work of a professional graphic designer is quite another thing and this is also why I entrusted my artwork to Devi Novita, but I find that AI generated art is a fun way and a very powerful tool to find ideas and inspiration.

If you want to try it too, go to Dream by Wombo and sweet A-dreams, available for iOS and Android, as well as desktop based on your browser.

For those who haven’t listened yet to my album inspired by an “artificial” story, here it is. You can also find it on other digital platforms.