How I used Jasper Art to make concept art for a company mascot in 10 minutes

5 key tips to improve your AI art generator prompts

I help people learn how to use AI art generators. I do this for clients, but sometimes just to lend a hand pro bono. Recently an interesting one was brought to my attention, and I had to help. They wanted a queen bee chef.

How cute is that idea? Of course my interest was piqued!

Here’s their original (admittedly not-so-great) attempt:

Not the best example of what the software can do! This is the “BEFORE”

So you can see why they asked The Jasper Whisperer to help out!

Okay, their bees are definitely wonky. There’s no doubt about it. But full marks to the customer for trying, and I get where they are coming from.

See, text-to-image generators are so magical, it’s hard not to treat them like mind-reading genies granting our wishes. We expect them to get it right.

And AI art generators very often do! I’ve gotten amazing images from random prompts when I’m feeling artistically reckless and inspired.

But the thing is, if we don’t communicate a clear concept, we won’t see the specific results we want. In this case, the brief was clear, but the prompt was not.

Designing Mrs. Honey Beesley — how I generate AI Art

With ten minutes of tinkering, I produced this beautiful bee chef:

Presenting… Mrs. Honey Beesley. Iconic character designed by Jim Nightingale with Jasper Art (2022)

I could imagine Honey Beesley in branding on a baking website, on a cake mix packaging, or on a label for a honey jar.

Like many cartoon characters side-on, Honey only had a ‘front half’, so I had to splice in her rear wing. Forgive my rushed PhotoShop — this was really just artwork for Proof of Concept. But I think Honey looks sweet.

The business can now take the image to their art department to either recreate (or just touch up the image more in PhotoShop or Illustrator).