Compose styles
Rather than blending styles toward a middle, this gives them roles. The first one carries the structure, the next comes in as the accent, and anything after that shows up in a single detail. Where they fight each other, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow Powell Peralta Deck Graphics: A symmetrical figure set on the tall center axis, one image filling the surface to its edges
- Type
- Set in Powell Peralta Deck Graphics's manner (The name drawn by hand at the stroke weight of the art and built into the emblem), and let Punk's lettering (Mix newsprint letters, handwriting and stamps) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in Powell Peralta Deck Graphics's material (Flat color inside heavy black outline, printed in few screens, with knockouts of bare wood as part of the figure); bring in exactly one thing from Punk (Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color).
- Colour
- Build on #f8d916, #bc3c09, #231008 and admit one accent from #eee3cf, #ef3127, #10100f.
Where they fight
These are already listed as related entries, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- Powell Peralta Deck Graphics Leaning into fine detail costs the emblem its reading the first time it grinds, so the more a board is ridden the less it names.
- Punk Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first.
Image prompt
Produce four original images that take their structure from Powell Peralta Deck Graphics (style, 1980s) and their accent from Punk (style, 1970s–1980s). ## What to make Make the kind of thing Powell Peralta Deck Graphics exists for: building an emblem that names who something belongs to and fills a tall surface, or putting an image on an object that wears down in use, where the meaning has to outlast the wear. Choose one subject and hold it across all four. ## Structure comes from Powell Peralta Deck Graphics - One emblem filling the underside of the deck - The figure held symmetrically at the center - Heavy black outline over flat color - A heraldry built from bones and skulls Composition: A symmetrical figure set on the tall center axis, one image filling the surface to its edges. Type and lettering: The name drawn by hand at the stroke weight of the art and built into the emblem. ## Accent comes from Punk, used sparingly - Cut-and-paste letters - Photocopier noise - Handwriting - Ragged placement Let one material quality come from it: Copier paper, tears, black plus a warning color. ## Colour and feeling Build the ground on #f8d916, carry the structure in #bc3c09 and #231008, and let a single accent come from #ef3127. These are read off real works, so a direction rather than a fixed palette. Feeling to carry: rebellion, play, exhilaration. ## What goes wrong - Powell Peralta Deck Graphics: Leaning into fine detail costs the emblem its reading the first time it grinds, so the more a board is ridden the less it names. - Punk: Borrowed rebellion is hollow. Decide what you are protesting first. ## Across the four Keep the roles fixed in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows what this pairing can do rather than four versions of one picture. ## Constraints - Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. - Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work. - Produce original compositions in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- Powell Peralta Deck Graphics 1980s / Style / Illustration Styles
Imagery that fills the whole underside of a deck with a single emblem. Bones, skulls and dragons in heavy outline, set on the board as a team's flag in full knowledge that grinding will wear them away.
- Punk 1970s–1980s / Style / Counterculture
A DIY objection to the authority of the tidy, made by cutting, pasting and dirtying.
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