Step 1. Using the plasma rectangles as a guide, create your first flame shapes with the Freehand Tool. These shapes used the colours Med Red and Med Orange. (I believe I set freehand Smoothness slider setting to something lowish such as 7% so as to get the sort of shape I actually drew, but without having a crazy amount of nodes). Note: Most of these shapes had a 6 pixel feather, but a few were drawn in the later stages and some of these had a smaller feather (4 pixels). I didn't worry too much about the actual shapes at this stage, I drew them quite quickly and roughly. Make some of them quite large. The general idea is to create three effects:
Step 2. The second flame shapes were Dk Orange and Lt Orange. I only drew a few of these and in general they were long thin-ish shapes. At this point I was trying to get the 'edge definition using colour' effect mentioned previously. These were still drawn pretty roughly and I didn't worry too much about accuracy when drawn over the first flame shapes. Tip: One thought about drawing all these shapes; try to draw less of them than you think you need to, as in reproducing this effect my first efforts were overdrawn and didn't look right, so best to keep it relatively simple. © Copyright 2002 Su Lawrence. All rights reserved. |
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