Image Essay 3

This image is meant to represent greed and how far man is willing to go to get everything he or she desires. The skeleton is the area of focus because the pile of money seems to be surrounding it. Also, the skeleton is in the middle of the composition so attention goes straight to this figure. The skeleton is in the foreground, the pile of money in the middle ground, and the flames in the background. The skeleton figure is the most detailed which makes it the dominant shape. The viewer’s eye would move pretty well around the page. Since the skeleton has his arms extended out, the eye moves from the bottom of the composition, following the extended arm all the way to the top of the image. The flow would be a lot better if maybe the arms of the skeleton were bent so that the viewer’s eye would go to one hand and then swing around to the next hand and then come back around to the skeleton’s chest in a circle. There is a lot of shading in the pile of money as well as on the bones of the skeleton. This makes the image look more three dimensional.