Sparks — the AI prompt catalog for your artwork
A Spark is a pre-built AI prompt that runs against a specific piece of your art and produces a tailored piece of writing in return. Instead of opening a chat window and figuring out how to ask, you pick a Spark from a catalog — Social post, Etsy listing, Hidden Sales Asset, Interior designer outreach — and ArtHelper takes care of the prompt, the context, and the writing. This article explains how Sparks work, how they differ from open chat with the Assistant, and how to find the right one for the job.
What a Spark actually is
Three things make a Spark different from typing into a chat window:
A Spark is pre-written. ArtHelper’s team has tuned each one for a specific job — writing a product description for an Etsy listing, drafting a caption for Instagram, finding Facebook groups that match your subject matter. You don’t write the prompt; you just pick it.
A Spark is art-aware. When you run a Spark, ArtHelper pulls in the image you’re working with, plus its title, description, and tags. It also reads your profile — your bio, your story, your artist statement, the tone you’ve trained — so the result sounds like you, about this specific piece.
A Spark is one click. There’s no blank page. You open a piece of art, pick a Spark from the grid, and the result starts streaming in a few seconds later. Edit it, regenerate it, or save it.
How Sparks differ from the Assistant chat
You can also talk to the Assistant in an open chat — type anything, get a reply. So when do you use a Spark and when do you use the Assistant?
Use the Assistant chat when you have an open-ended question or a back-and-forth conversation — brainstorming a body of work, asking for feedback on a marketing idea, thinking out loud about your career.
Use a Spark when you have a specific piece of art and a specific outcome — a social caption for it, an Etsy listing, a description for your website, a list of subreddits where collectors of this style hang out.
You can also drop a piece of art into the chat and ask the Assistant for the same kind of output. Sparks are the shortcut: pre-tested prompts that consistently produce something useful for a specific job.
The catalog
ArtHelper ships with hundreds of Sparks, covering most of what a working artist needs to write. A few of the most-used:
Social post — a caption and hashtags for Instagram, Facebook, or X.
Product title — three to five short, catchy names for a piece.
Product description — a paragraph for your shop or website.
Etsy listing — an SEO-aware title, description, and tag set.
Artist statement — a statement of intent for a single piece or a body of work.
Email campaign — a short email pitch you can send to your list.
Interior designer outreach — wall colours that complement your piece, plus a direct-message template.
Reddit and Facebook group finder — links to subreddits and Facebook groups that match the subject of your work.
Hidden Sales Asset — surfaces a piece in your portfolio that’s underused as a sales tool, and tells you why.
The full catalog is hundreds of Sparks deep and grows over time. New Sparks get added regularly — sort by New To Old in the catalog to see what’s been added recently.
How to browse the catalog
Open My Artwork and click any piece you’ve uploaded.
The Sparks panel appears on the artwork page. Scroll through the grid to browse.
Use the View By sort at the top of the grid to reorder the catalog. The options are Favorite, Frequent, Alphabetically, New To Old, and Default.
Click the star on any Spark to favourite it. Sort by Favorite later to stack your personal toolkit at the top.
If you find yourself running the same two or three Sparks every time you upload a piece, favourite them. Sorting by Favorite turns the catalog into a short personal list — much faster than scrolling through hundreds.
How to run a specific Spark
Open the piece of art you want to write about from My Artwork.
Click Edit details and fill in the title, description, and any tags. Saved details make every Spark sharper.
Pick a Spark from the grid by clicking its card.
ArtHelper streams the result into the panel below. It takes a few seconds.
Edit the text directly if you want to tweak it.
Click Save at the bottom of the result, give it a name (for example “Instagram caption — Good Intents”), and it goes to your Saved Content.
Free, Growth, and Pro — which Sparks you can use
Most Sparks are available on every plan. Some of the more advanced ones are gated behind a paid plan.
Free — access to the core Sparks, with a monthly cap on how many you can run.
Growth — access to a wider set of Sparks, with a higher monthly cap.
Pro — unlimited Sparks and access to every Spark in the catalog, including the advanced ones.
If you click a Spark that’s not on your plan, you’ll see a friendly upgrade prompt explaining which plan unlocks it. Sparks you’ve already used still count toward your monthly Spark credits — the credit count is shown at the top of the Sparks grid. See the Choosing your plan article for the full breakdown.
What counts as one Spark run
Every time a Spark generates content, that counts as one run against your monthly credits. Both the initial output and any regeneration count:
Picking a Spark and generating the first draft — one run.
Clicking Regenerate to throw out that draft and try again — one more run.
Asking for a small tweak with Suggest changes — one more run.
You can see your remaining credits at the top of the Sparks grid. If you hit the cap, ArtHelper will let you know and offer an upgrade.
How to save and reuse what a Spark generates
After a Spark finishes generating, read the result.
If you want to keep it, click Save.
Type a name you’ll recognise later — for example “Etsy listing — Good Intents”.
Find it any time from Saved Content in the left sidebar.
From Saved Content you can copy it, edit it, share it, or post it directly to a connected social account.
Common questions
Why don’t I see Sparks on my page?
Sparks only appear after you’ve uploaded at least one piece of art. Open My Artwork, click a piece, and the Sparks grid should appear on the artwork page. If you’ve uploaded but the grid still doesn’t show, refresh the page once.
How is a Spark different from typing into the chat?
A Spark is a pre-built prompt that already knows the job — write a product description, find Facebook groups for this subject, draft an interior-designer outreach message. The chat is open-ended. Sparks are faster for known jobs; chat is better for exploring or brainstorming.
Can I write my own Spark?
The catalog is curated by the ArtHelper team. You can shape any Spark’s output with Custom rules on a paid plan — for example “always write a 400-character description” — and you can favourite the ones you use most. Custom Spark authoring is not available today.
Some Sparks have a lock icon. Why?
Those Sparks are only available on the Growth or Pro plan. Click one and you’ll see a prompt explaining the upgrade. The lock just means the Spark exists, but isn’t included in your current plan.
What happens to a Spark output if I don’t save it?
It stays on the artwork page until you navigate away or run another Spark. If you might want it again, click Save first — that puts a permanent copy in Saved Content.