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Published: 2010-09-20 08:17:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 33698; Favourites: 1601; Downloads: 1514
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Here you guys go! Lemme know if you have any questions
- I use Adobe Photoshop, but you should be able to apply this technique to other programs.
- I use a tablet, but with effort and patience, the same result can be approximated with a mouse.
- Can be done on a single layer, or many.
- Can be done using only three colours.
- Does not require special brushes.
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Awesome job on the tutorial. I can see this becoming very handy in the future
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Thanks for this. It's always nice to see someone sharing their techniques.
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Wow! Thanks so much for posting this tutorial. I can't wait to try it out on something (I already have a teeny-tiny idea too... I'll be sure to link you!)
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Cool, lemme know how it turns out :3
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This really helps I was having trouble finding a fire turtorial, thanks for posting <3
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Awesome, glad to have helped
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wow this really helps! and really amazing work too :3
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Awesome, good to know
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wow this really helps! and really amazing work too :3
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im the one thanking you silly ^L^ lol
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Wow, that's a helpful and inspiring fire tutorial. Thank you for making it.
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This is the best tutorial I've ever seen. I tried this myself, it's simply explained and easy, but gives a very realistic outcome. Great job! <3
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That's great, I'm glad to hear it! 
Scribbling can do some magic things! XD
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whats a tablet? (i always had that question)
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A tablet is sort of a special pad that you draw on with a special pen. [link] So instead of using a mouse, you use a pen, and you can simulate things like pen pressure and thickness that you can't with a mouse. Some tablets have special screens, so it's like drawing right on the screen, but those are mostly expensive ones.
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Read this ---> [link] That should help answer your question.
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uuh awesome!
now i understand a lot of things
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I cannot wait to try this! Thanks for sharing your technique. I've always painted my fire differently and it ended up looking flat or motionless. This looks amazing!!
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Thank you very much! I wish you luck :3
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Haha, thank you. It ended up looking nothing like yours. I really need to practise!
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OMGYAY!!!!! Now if only I could find a traditional-media tutorial for the same... lol
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XD You can use mostly the same technique for traditional painting, just can't colour dodge - hafta do it manually :b
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It's a very different animal though, because unless you use airbrushes, it will not behave like most standard digital brushes as you can't control flow and opacity inquite the same ways. There's a lot more fussing and toying. Plus, you don't usually start with a dark paper, especially in watercolor.
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Yup, definitely agree. You can layer to a degree using acrylics, which often can be used in a semiopaque way to build up layers of colour, similar to watercolour, but dries a ton faster so you can keep working instead of having to wait an hour or having to blowdry your paper :b
But yeah, definitely more difficult traditionally, I think.
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I think probably the easiest would be oils but I don't know for sure... never got my grubby nubbies on oils yet to play with 'em. lol
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Oils are sorta different - they're great if you like to mess around with the colours a lot and don't want to worry about them drying out on you (which is what frustrated me about acrylic), and there'd be a lot more active painterly mixing going on, rather than translucent layering of colour like in acrylics, unless you actually want to wait a day or two (or more :S) for the oils to dry. Oil is fun, but messy and expensive.
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Yeah, the messy and expensive part is what bugs me. lol I have no space where I can make a nice big mess, and no money to play with oils.
I HATE how fast acrylics dry. lol You wouldn't guess by my gallery, but my two favorite media to use that I have gotten my hands on are oil pastels and chalk pastels. But I use them up like crazy because I'm heavy-handed with them, I like to smuch and blend and use a TON on the paper (especially the chalks, since I like to work LARGE in those - and then they don't fit in the scanner LOL). So those are an expense thing for me. Plus with the chalks I need either a large table or a big hard floor to work on. XD That and I really need a better fixative besides cheap hairspray - my one really big piece has to be folded (it's done in sections) for transport, and even taking precautions and putting a bit of paper between the layers it still manages to smudge a bit - and I hairsprayed the crap out of that thing.
My ability to play and shade improves greatly when I'm workign with something I can smush around and mix more actively.
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I like chalk/oil pastels quite a bit, too, although it's easy to really go through them quickly, especially if you're doing a medium to large piece that features a lot of one colour... x_x
Oddly enough, while I enjoy chalk pastel, I can't stand charcoal x_x which is basically like the chalk pastel version of graphite. Dunno why.
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It's grainier. I can tell you that right now. I like charcoal a lot less too. Chalk pastels have stuff added that makes them roll off nice and smooth. Charcoal is "drier" and doesn't blend as well, really. Now, I like playing with charcoal if it's actual "I just dug it out of the fire" type stuff, because it amuses me. lol But that's different. I draw on rocks with that. XD
But yeah, the going through them like mad is the other reason I haven't been using them lately. :\
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Yeah, that's it. Sometimes charcoal will blend nice and smooth, until you come across a random hard chunk that leaves horrible scrapes across the bit you were just trying to blend smoothly x_x
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awesome fire there. But I'm not sure I'll be able to repeat that :S
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this is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wonderful tutorial! Very helpful.
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That looks brilliant - thankyou!
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