Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Aerial Photography: Point straight down, drop the horizon, read the ground as figure
- Type
- Set in Aerial Photography's manner (Always carry scale, north and date, set small in a corner), and let Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map's lettering (Vertical brush lettering for place names, larger for the famous ones) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Aerial Photography's material (Shoot when low sun draws relief, not in flat midday light); bring in exactly one thing from Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map (Pale watercolor ground with shrine vermilion and mountain green printed over).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Aerial Photography Reliance on pattern removes every clue to altitude and scale, and the picture stops telling anyone what is shown or how large it is.
- Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map Pushing curve and exaggeration until the order of the route breaks gives a map that is fun to look at and useless on the ground.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Aerial Photography (Style, 1858–) and its accent from Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map (Style, 1913–1950s). Structural cues: The vertical view as figure; Terrain drawn by shadow; The gridded city; Scale without people. Accent cues, used sparingly: Curving horizons; Exaggerated landmarks; Extreme wide-angle views; Painterly color. Composition: Point straight down, drop the horizon, read the ground as figure. Type and lettering: Always carry scale, north and date, set small in a corner. Let one material quality come from the second style: Pale watercolor ground with shrine vermilion and mountain green printed over. Mood: Exhilaration, Technology, Calm, Nostalgia, Play. 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.
Related entries
- Aerial Photography 1858– / Style / Photographic Genres
The view from above begun with Nadar's balloon: the vertical gaze that turns cities into figures, passing through survey and war into landscape-as-abstraction, and on to satellites and drones.
- Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map 1913–1950s / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
The tourist bird's-eye map style perfected by Hatsusaburō Yoshida: extravagantly curved horizons, exaggerated landmarks and a view that pulls distant cities into one sheet, turning Taishō and Shōwa era travel into pictorial maps.
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