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So I decided to try my hand at wet blending colours for some power swords, a blue one for me and a fire-themed one for my salamanders-playing friend.
Couple questions.
1) Does Dark-Light-Dark Give the best look in your experience, or would dark to light be better?
2) If you were to do some lightning-looking bits on the fire sword, what colour would you use?
3) I know the lightning is a bit too thick, i've since acquired a skinnier brush, and I think really thin lines would look best, but a buddy says the thick lines look good. Thoughts?

*Sorry for photo quality, it's a phone camera, i have not got any other cameras*

Well done dude awesome stuff so far. For me the flame effect is very good but imo anyway I like the fire blades worked up from very dark almost black to hot white.

Also the blending is good but the lightening pattern needs more depth, build up your streaks with 3 colours and much thinner and less linear in form.
Like this but more restrained (img from google search - not my wrk)

Over all tho they are still pretty good to go, hope that helps look forward to seeing further attempts!

The two other designs I was toying with for fire swords: One is as you say, the dark to white, like black-smoke-dark red-red-through oranges, yellows, and to white.
The other was an idea to do a vertical white section up the centre of the blade, and fade it out yellow-orange-red towards the sides and tip. And not go further than red for that one.


that sword looks great!!

There's endless patterns, personally im not big on overtly elaborate patterns as paints by nature are too static to convey the energy they are trying to describe and need to find a happy medium which is why I feel the glistening fade and red hot colours are more popular now over the more old school lightening and flame designs.