As well he uses a proportionate head. Similarly, both used a specific brush technique to add emotion, though their techniques differ. Munch uses wavy curved brush strokes to create a fluid, moving, emotional background opposing it with harsh, straight, rational lines leading off to form the bridge. Bacon uses a wipe technique to smear the brown base and black background over onto the page having the background invade the foreground, while also forming a column of light around the pope. Munch and Bacon alike took their screaming figure and made it into something super natural.
Munch bends the body toward an es shape, matching the curves of the shoreline behind the figure.
The figure, by bending into a form no human could, mimics nature yet extends beyond nature as well. Bacon's pope conversely becomes a ghost as he fades away beneath his torso. To differ the emotions given by the scream, each artist has put the screamer in a different pose. Bacon uses the clenching fists to present a painful scream. Munch takes the pose of the hands covering the ears, a pose we most often see people screaming in because of mental strife.