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Angry Beavers: 30 ChatGPT Hockey Jerseys in 30 Days
May
The What
We have reached the ninth installment of the series! Day 9 of 30. This particular concept revolved around a team we dubbed the ‘Angry Beavers‘. Like others, we have some customer inspired designs and builder designs from over the years and though the concept would be fun to execute. Wooden hockey sticks and beavers, a natural combination!
How We Prompted ChatGPT
Here’s the exact prompt we used to get the logo image you see within this post.
‘I want to make a logo for a team called ‘Angry Beavers’ – want it to be a mascot logo in a vintage/modern style crest. The crest shape can follow the shape of the mascot logo that is developed, it can also have a border with one or two outlines. For the logo mascot, please make it a beaver with an angry expression. Have the beaver chewing a hockey stick in half, like it would have done with a tree. The beaver’s tail should be a prominent part of the design. I don’t have a color set, pick one for me – colors should be contrasting. Please only use a maximum of 5 hex colors for the logo. Please use clean sharp lines and color – no grain or mottled results. 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 Angry Beavers Hockey Jersey Results/Product
As is often the case, our first prompt attempt delivered our favorite version of the logo. While several other strong options were generated, which you can view in the gallery, we ended up sticking closely to the AI-generated design when creating the final artwork—with only slight color tweaks along the way.
The jersey concept also followed the original suggestion quite closely, including the use of a wood grain pattern—an unconventional but striking choice for a hockey jersey. Additional logo variations from the design process are included in the gallery below.
Just a quick reminder from earlier posts: this project is an exploration of what’s possible with AI-assisted design—it’s not a substitute for skilled illustrators.
We’re dropping a new concept daily, so don’t miss out! Check out the growing collection, place your order, and feel free to share your feedback or your own creative results!
