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 Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map: Curve the horizon strongly and stretch the featured area toward the viewer
- Type
- Set in Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map's manner (Vertical brush lettering for place names, larger for the famous ones), and let Portolan Chart's lettering (Names packed perpendicular to the coast, key ports raised in red) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map's material (Pale watercolor ground with shrine vermilion and mountain green printed over); bring in exactly one thing from Portolan Chart (Black and red on a vellum ground, flags and monsters in open water).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
- Both belong to Diagrammatic Expression, so the difference is small. Push the roles further apart than feels comfortable.
- Roughly 1900 years apart. Keep one of them recognisably period rather than letting both drift into the middle.
Caution
- 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.
- Portolan Chart Drawing rhumb lines as pattern while ignoring how they answer the roses gives ornament that no longer looks like an instrument of navigation.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Hatsusaburō Panoramic Map (Style, 1913–1950s) and its accent from Portolan Chart (Style, 13th–17th century). Structural cues: Curving horizons; Exaggerated landmarks; Extreme wide-angle views; Painterly color. Accent cues, used sparingly: Radiating rhumb lines; Names perpendicular to coasts; The vellum ground; Flags and monsters as ornament. Composition: Curve the horizon strongly and stretch the featured area toward the viewer. Type and lettering: Vertical brush lettering for place names, larger for the famous ones. Let one material quality come from the second style: Black and red on a vellum ground, flags and monsters in open water. Mood: Exhilaration, Nostalgia, Play, Trust. 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
- 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.
- Portolan Chart 13th–17th century / Style / Diagrammatic Expression
A medieval working sea chart, crossed by radiating rhumb lines. Coastlines and place names run precisely along the vellum while flags and monsters fill the empty water, from a time when a map's usefulness and its ornament had not yet parted.
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