Historical-style illustration without fake artists
Illustration of {{subject}} in the visual language of {{era/movement, e.g. 1930s WPA travel posters}} — described by technique, not by naming a living artist.
Technique: {{printing method, e.g. flat screen-printed colour separations}}, limited palette of {{n}} inks with visible slight misregistration, halftone or stipple texture where tone is needed, bold simplified shapes, strong diagonal composition, subject dominating the frame with a low horizon. Typographic space left at the bottom quarter. Paper texture and slight edge wear consistent with the period. Colour choices restricted to pigments plausible for the era.
Negative: digital gradients, airbrushing, modern typefaces, glossy rendering, photorealism, text, signature, watermark, contemporary objects.
How to use it
Describing the printing process — inks, separations, misregistration — gets you closer to a period look than naming an artist, and avoids style-appropriation problems.
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