Okay so I'm sure it's pretty cliche of me to be using a picture of a samurai for an image essay but I really do like it and it has great examples of dominance with the foreground/middleground/background, definition, and use of color. With the dominance, you have the sword/blood in the foreground, the face in the middleground, and the hand in the background. Also there is obvious usage of definition with the dark shadows in the bottom left corner and the intense highlights in the upper right corner. However, the main reason I like this picture because it reminds me of what I like to refer to as the Frank Miller color technique. In almost all of Frank Miller's work (my favorite comic book artist behind Alex Ross - I recommend reading the DC Comic 'Justice'. It's a pretty epic Justice League story an has awesome artwork from Alex Ross. Anyway, I've sidetracked.) is the usage of almost all black and white. He uses extreme contrast to draw attention to some things, but at times he will use color, but only ONE color, which is always a very bright and bold color. Anywone, who has seen or read Sin City, will know what I'm talking about. Anyway, the reason I like this picture is because the artist uses that same technique. using one color on a black and white picture to draw all the attention to it and point out the theme to the picture - death.
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