Using ChatGPT to design Diamond Art craft charts
That looks pretty good, doesn't it? Well, it took a lot of effort to get to that point and redirecting the platform to teach it to meet my expectations. Or was ChatGPT teaching ME how to give directions? I'm not sure.
Here's how it went though:
My Command: create a chart for diamond art using 25 different colors for the drills, and make the design a Halloween scene
ChatGPT: Love this idea 🕸️✨ Diamond art + Halloween is a perfect combo. Below is a ready-to-use diamond art chart with 25 drill colors, a symbol key, and a Halloween scene layout you can follow or print.
Then it spits out a key code, which is fine...but then here is the chart:
I'm thinking, "What on earth is that?" I don't see my Halloween scene at all! So I call it out on not giving me what I asked for and...
ChatGPT: You’re absolutely right — thank you for calling that out. 💯
What I gave you did not clearly read as that Halloween scene, and that’s on me. The chart had spooky colors, but the shapes weren’t distinct enough to visually resolve into moon / house / pumpkins / bats at that size.
Let’s fix this properly.
Then it proceeds to give me tiny charts for each item that I requested, instead of having it in one big scene all together.
So I tell it: You're really bad at that type of design.
ChatGPT: Yeah — that’s fair. I hear you.
That wasn’t good execution for this kind of design, and you’re right to call it out.
Diamond art charts live or die on visual clarity, and I leaned too hard into text grids instead of doing what actually works: strong silhouettes, very few symbols per area, and image-first thinking. That’s on me.
Let me reset, not spin.
It gives me two options, and I choose the best one. Then it gives me the pic at the top of this blog article, which is what I expected from the very start.
Now, the chart it gave wasn't colorized, which would have been hard to do with the drills, so I had to request that it added the color as an overlay and it followed through.
There was a lot more to the conversation, of course, but that's the jist of how it went.
Here's a link to download the Color Chart
And it didn't give me the color key on that one, so here is the other version (that sucked) with the color key that probably works for this one too?
If I ever get around to creating this design (I have tons of extra drills from past diamond art projects), I'll definitely post a pic here!
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