Publisher Foundation Art Group Price $10 Format Download Web http://www.foundationartgroup.comARTIST PROFILE
LOGAN
PRESHAWLogan is a concept artist working
in film, games and location-based
design and illustration. His
clients include Weta Workshop,
DreamWorks, Cartoon Network,
Disney and Nickelodeon. Projects
include creating artwork for the
Quiet Robot board game Salvos
and the tabletop RPG Fragged
Empire, as well as working on
backgrounds and design for the
comedy Pacific Heat.
He’s also released a
digital art book
on his own
Junkernauts project.
http://www.artstation.com/logibearcomposing shapes with colour, light
and shadow within your composition
to change the feel of your image.
The way Logan takes you through
this is clear and concise, if a little
wearing to actually listen to because of
the constant sibilance effect on the
audio. He follows his detailing of the
theory by showing the ideas in
practice, creating a concept art piece
where the shapes tell a story in
themselves. A brief analysis video
breaks down how he’s applied the
principles, again in a very clear way.
This video is the latest in a regular
series by the Foundation Art Group,
which offers regular art tutorials to buy
and download, or via a Patreon
subscription via the reduced price of
$5 per video. It’s a great little refresher
for experienced artists, and could be
revelatory for beginners wanting to
understand better how artists create
great pieces.GET INTO SHAPE Logan Preshaw gets under the skin of how art is
made as he explains how your choice of shapes affects the vieweroncept artist Logan
Preshaw’s video addresses
a key art topic: the shapes
we choose to draw, and the
effect they have on the viewer.
Exploring the ideas can transform
your art and how you approach it:
when you take control of shape, you
become a designer, arranging the
elements within your frame to fulfil
your vision. As Logan puts it: “The
ultimate goals in an artwork are to
direct the viewer to see what we
want them to see, and to have them
feel what we want them to feel.”
In a 40-minute talk, he starts from
first principles, explaining how basic
shapes like circles, squares and
triangles each generate a different
association within us. This means how
you design a building, for example,
can affect how the viewer responds to
it, perhaps feeling comforted versus
scared. You can go further byC
Shape Design
A time-lapse video chapter sees
Logan apply the principles he’s
outlined in a concept art piece.Logan’s video – part-
theory, part-practical- offers a useful
overview to the ideas
behind using different
shapes in your art.
Topics covered
QBasic shapes
QViewer associations
QCreating a shape
language
QBuilding focus
through shape
QPractical application
Length
77 minutes
Rating
++++Logan Preshaw
narrates over a nicely
made series of slides to
explain all the key
points you need to
understand why visual
shapes matter.Logan ties up the
principles and practice
of shape design in an
analysis video that
shows how he applied
each idea.Using different shapes
as the foundation for
your designs creates a
range of responses
from the viewer.Inspiration Training