# Commedia dell'Arte × Kumadori — composed image prompt
# IndexStyle — https://indexstyle.org/compose?ids=commedia-dellarte+kumadori
# Commedia dell'Arte carries the structure. Kumadori 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 Commedia dell'Arte (Style, 16th–18th century) and its accent from Kumadori (Style, 1673–). Structural cues: Leather half-masks; Harlequin's lozenge pattern; Type-defining costume; Exaggerated gesture. Accent cues, used sparingly: Red and indigo kuma lines; Musculature drawn as pattern; White ground; A color code of character. Composition: Figures ranged across a shallow stage, eyes aligned at mask height. Type and lettering: Hand lettering that tilts with the gesture, at signpainter weight. Let one material quality come from the second style: Red and indigo brushed over white, the bristle streaks left showing. Mood: Play, Rebellion, Nostalgia, 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.

# Where the two fight
# - Both belong to Stage Design, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
# - Roughly 1657 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.

# Cautions carried from each entry
# - Commedia dell'Arte: Borrowing only the lozenges and the mask loses the rank and temperament the type was meant to signal, leaving a costume party photograph.
# - Kumadori: Drawing the red and indigo as pure pattern breaks the code that marks good, evil and the superhuman, leaving a decorated face that states nothing.

# Design specs: https://indexstyle.org/styles/commedia-dellarte/design.md · https://indexstyle.org/styles/kumadori/design.md