# CoBrA × Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=cobra+lowbrow
# CoBrA carries the structure. Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) 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 CoBrA (Style, 1948–1951) and its accent from Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism) (Style, 1979–). Structural cues: The directness of children's drawing; Rough-brushed creatures; Colliding primaries; The refusal of planning. Accent cues, used sparingly: Pop-culture iconography; Precise classical technique; Uneasy humor; Street-born heraldry. Composition: No underdrawing, creatures pushed to the edges, gaps filled after. Type and lettering: Letters drawn by hand, uneven in size, living beside the figures. Let one material quality come from the second style: Oil gloss and smooth gradation, brushwork sanded away. Mood: Rebellion, Play, Exhilaration, Nostalgia. 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
# - CoBrA: Aiming to look unskilled produces neither the speed of the hand nor a creature that exists, only a picture performing childishness.
# - Lowbrow (Pop Surrealism): Picking creepy subject matter while skipping the rendering craft turns the work into doodling that only wants to shock.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/cobra/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/lowbrow/design.md