# African Barbershop Sign × Ghanaian Movie Poster — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=barbershop-sign+ghana-movie-poster
# African Barbershop Sign carries the structure. Ghanaian Movie Poster appear as accents, each further back than the last.
# Style descriptors only. Never imitates a specific artist, studio, brand or work.

An original image that takes its structure from African Barbershop Sign (Style, 1950s–) and its accent from Ghanaian Movie Poster (Style, 1980s–2000s). Structural cues: Grids of haircut samples; Flat repeated faces; Numbers and hand lettering; Enamel on plywood. Accent cues, used sparingly: Flour-sack canvas; Exaggerated violence and muscle; Free departure from the actual film; Hand-painted title lettering. Composition: Grid of equal frames with every face drawn at the same angle. Type and lettering: Number each cut and paint only the shop name large by hand. Let one material quality come from the second style: Enamel laid thick on sewn sacking, creases and seams left showing. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Trust, Rebellion, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - African Barbershop Sign: Individualizing the faces as portraits breaks the catalogue function, and customers can no longer use the board to order.
# - Ghanaian Movie Poster: Borrowing the exaggeration for laughs alone erases the exhibition need that produced it, and the picture ends up mocking somebody else's living.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/barbershop-sign/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/ghana-movie-poster/design.md