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 Pop Art: Blow up the subject; panels and repetition
- Type
- Set in Pop Art's manner (Comic-style extra-bold lettering), and let Pulp Magazine Cover's lettering (The title screaming across the top, author and tagline on slanted bands) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Pop Art's material (Red, yellow, blue, black outlines, halftones); bring in exactly one thing from Pulp Magazine Cover (Oil brushwork in primaries sinking into a yellowed, coarse ground).
- Colour
- Build on #f5dd27, #ee2f2f, #2060b7 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
- Pop Art Overusing comic marks trivializes the content. Decide what you treat as mass culture.
- Pulp Magazine Cover Painting sloppily to look cheap removes the rendering skill that carried the sensation and leaves fake old printing.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from Pop Art (Style, 1950s–1960s) and its accent from Pulp Magazine Cover (Style, 1920s–1950s). Structural cues: Halftone dots; Bold outlines; Primary colors; Repetition. Accent cues, used sparingly: Melodramatic oil painting; The instant of peril; Screaming logotypes; Primary-color sensation. Composition: Blow up the subject; panels and repetition. Type and lettering: Comic-style extra-bold lettering. Let one material quality come from the second style: Oil brushwork in primaries sinking into a yellowed, coarse ground. Mood: Exhilaration, Play, Nostalgia. Color: build on #f5dd27, #ee2f2f, #2060b7 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
- Pop Art 1950s–1960s / Style / Pop
Amplifies the vocabulary of ads and comics until mass culture itself becomes the picture.
- Pulp Magazine Cover 1920s–1950s / Style / Publishing and Editing
Fiction magazines printed on cheap pulp paper competed on sensational covers. Melodramatic oil painting, the instant of peril and screaming logotypes cast the visual language of science fiction, horror and crime, which flowed on into paperbacks and comics.
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