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Amidst the hundreds of thousands of threads on here, something I hadn't found yet is a comprehensive guide on painting fire. So, I walked the lonely streets of Google Avenue and stumbled across this gem. If this is already somewhere in the forum, I hope that someone will delete the thread appropriately.

Note, this is NOT MY WORK. ALL CREDIT GOES TO THE AUTHOR, LAZLO JAKUSOVSKY

http://www.hot-lead.org/advance/fire_prac.htm

Excellent find. Very usefull.

That's a nice find. 16 layers of shading is too much work for me but you can't argue with his results.

That mini takes me back. The Ral Partha elemental miniatures were my first experiment with washes and drybrushing. Good times.

Excellent find. Though most artists who paint "realistic fire" use a black or deep brown base coat (always) followed by progressive white coats where the color will be on the fire. This creates a sense of depth and translucency to the fire that is not apparent in that model.

Here is a great example of some amazingly realistic painted fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVnK2FnrJE

With some adjustment, this can be done with a brush painting with thinned layers of paint along with drybrushing.

If you watch a lot of the examples of professional painters the color sequence is a base of black or dark brown, followed by building the base of varying degrees of white, followed by yellow, followed by a 1:1 mix of yellow and white, followed by orange. At no point in all the tutorials or examples I have seen is red, ever, ever used.

Wayshuba wrote:
Excellent find. Though most artists who paint "realistic fire" use a black or deep brown base coat (always) followed by progressive white coats where the color will be on the fire. This creates a sense of depth and translucency to the fire that is not apparent in that model.

Here is a great example of some amazingly realistic painted fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuVnK2FnrJE

With some adjustment, this can be done with a brush painting with thinned layers of paint along with drybrushing.

If you watch a lot of the examples of professional painters the color sequence is a base of black or dark brown, followed by building the base of varying degrees of white, followed by yellow, followed by a 1:1 mix of yellow and white, followed by orange. At no point in all the tutorials or examples I have seen is red, ever, ever used.

I would be interested to see how that would work on an actual miniature that has detail on it. I've seen several tutorials similar to that, starting with a dark base, airbrushing white flames and then a light airbrush of a colour (green, orange, etc) in order to tint the flames... but that's all for airbrushing a car, not painting 3D detailed flames.

BuyPainted also did some flames on a pheonix that I thought looked pretty cool...
http://buypainted.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/flamespyre-phoenix-03.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSaXd6IRfZU

From the OP's video:
"Keeping with the idea of a strata of flames, each subsequent layer is made darker as we go up the fire,"

While this is true, he missed the part where the flame is lighter on the inside and gets darker towards the outside as it cools. To make a painted flame look more realistic one needs to reverse the "highlight" sequence by starting with white in the recesses and working outward with yellow, orange and red. In other word "highlighting" from light to dark instead of the normal dark to light.

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You can't have searched very hard. A whole range if fire painting examples and tutorials here, including the one you posted, simply by searching for "painting fire"

http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/228731.page#541153