# City Pop Illustration × Vaporwave — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=city-pop-illustration+vaporwave
# City Pop Illustration carries the structure. Vaporwave 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 City Pop Illustration (Style, 1979–1989 / 2010s revival) and its accent from Vaporwave (Style, 2010s). Structural cues: Cloudless blue and pools; Palms and horizons; Flat airbrushed surfaces; The absence of people. Accent cues, used sparingly: Pink and purple; Classical statues; Early CG; Tropics and Japanese text. Composition: A horizon drawn across the middle, dividing sky above from water below. Type and lettering: A thin Latin sans set small and never explaining the picture. Let one material quality come from the second style: Purple and aqua, low resolution, VHS noise. Mood: Calm, Nostalgia, Exhilaration, Futurism, Rebellion. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #532d8f, #ee72c8, #66dbe0. 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
# - City Pop Illustration: Drawing in people or traces of daily life breaks the unpeopled stillness and drops the work to generic tropical illustration.
# - Vaporwave: Don't reduce Japanese to meaningless decoration. Bring criticism or personal memory.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/city-pop-illustration/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/vaporwave/design.md