Painting 'Dark Fire'

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**vipoid**

Normally, when painting fire, I believe you'd have white at the centre and/or base of the flame, and then gradually move to darker colours on the top and edges.

However, I was wondering if it's possible to still get a fire effect using darker colours (and, in particular, no white)?

See, I've made a converted Mandrake 'sorcerer' for DE, but the flames seem a bit too light for his black body and general theme at the moment. So, I'm wondering if I can darken them without losing the fire effect altogether, if you see what I mean.

If this sort of thing is possible, can anyone offer me some advice/suggestions for going about it?

**queen_annes_revenge**

You could maybe start with a dark colour, then fade out to lighter shades, like purple or blue. And have it almost black at the centre

**heartserenade**

It depends on the color of the flame. You can still go for light to dark (or in your case,dark to darker).

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Alternatively, you can always do green flames, because green flames are always evil.

**vipoid**

That flame is pretty damn close to the colours I was looking for.

Is that a negative?

**heartserenade**

Not really. I think the flame was selected, then the Hue was shifted to blue and Lightness lessened to a considerable degree. Using Photoshop or something similar, of course. Notice that the white/lighter parts are still ighter, only they've turned into a blue shade, and the red/darker parts turned into black.

The order is still the same: light at the center, dark at the edges. If it's a negative it would've been reversed and it won't look "right".