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Swamp Donkeys: 30 ChatGPT Hockey Jerseys in 30 Days
May
The What
Welcome to the fifth installment in the series! Day 5 of 30. This particular concept revolved around a team we dubbed the ‘Swamp Donkeys‘. We get a lot of orders and inquiries surrounding the moose them, like Moose Knuckles and Swamp Donkeys. Now we have a retail item for customers to choose, or have us alter to fit their color set.
How We Prompted ChatGPT
This logo was pretty good in the initial creation, but we wanted to enhance it. Here’s the exact prompt we used to get started.
‘I want to make a logo for a hockey team called ‘Swamp Donkeys’ – want it to be a mascot logo in a vintage/modern style. No crest shape, the logo can also have a border with one or two outlines. For the logo mascot, please make it look like an angry moose playing ice hockey. Colors should be contrasting. Please only use a maximum of 5 hex colors for the logo. Logo only, don’t include the text please.’
Links to the prompt exchange history:
For most use cases, we went with the minimal mascot style logo direction. ChatGPT knows what this is and will mimic the style pretty well. This ensures flat and clean lines with no shading or soft edges. That’s important, we’ll explain why. The final artwork needs to be this way so that we can create a vector image out of the PNG file that ChatGPT provides to you after it renders your ideas. We take the file and load it into a vectorization tool (we recommend vectorizer.ai and Vector Magic to accomplish this on your own – otherwise we can do that step for you after you order – you’re also free to explore other options) to separate the shapes into vectors so that we can colorize freely. This also ensures that we are able to scale the artwork without the loss of resolution. More on that here.
You can request a crest shape to act as a container for your logo, or explicitly ask to not include one. At times we asked for no crest shape since we wanted to have control on that piece on our end after the logo is created. You can also prompt ChatGPT for suggestions – it can really help steer your creative direction.
Be sure to direct the prompt with specific information if you have it – like what sort of emotion you want, what pose, overall shape, and what items the logo should have (i.e. hockey gloves, hockey skates, hockey stick, etc.).
For text, it does a decent job with rendering it out – you will likely experience some anomalies and artifacts with the text, it’s improved in this regard immensely in the time we started using to now. You can choose to let it be generated or to exclude it – just be sure to know what you want to do going into it. We suggest going without it first and adding it when requesting revisions. Experimenting will obviously get you better and better results as you learn how best to get what you want.
Ask for colors you’d like to include. Give general direction with terms like primary, analogous, monochromatic, contrasting – you can even let ChatGPT pick them for you. It’s good to limit the total number of colors in the logo as well – this helps for many reasons. Results in a cleaner file and better contrast. We recommend a maximum of 5-6 colors. Through some experimentation we found that adding the ‘no grain or mottled results’ in the prompt really helps to keep the final image from looking like it has a texture to it.
Final Swamp Donkeys Hockey Jersey Results/Product
After several iterations and experiments, we made a few tweaks to make the color more contrasting but largely stuck with the A.I.-generated artwork to bring this design to life. The changes we made were adding a swampy background to the crest shape to help elevate the design and create further visual interest. We also had ChatGPT create a matching shoulder logo based on our results of everything else, surprisingly it handled the text pretty well vs. previous attempts where it chopped it up or fragmented the letterforms. Lastly, we asked for a few uniform concepts.
You can browse the progress and alternate logo versions in the gallery below. When this final version came through, it stood out immediately—we knew we had our winner. As always, this series is about exploring possibilities, not replacing illustrators.
We’re dropping a new design concept every day, so don’t miss out—grab yours now and explore the full collection as it evolves. Want to create your own jersey powered by A.I.? Check out our Pro-Style Hockey Jersey Builder and start designing!
