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Get some good flame / fire references to work from, not "Hot Rod"
flames, this is fire. And remember, Fire burns differently with
each & every item it burns. It will burn differently if it's burning
wood or petrol etc. it all depends on how hot or intense the fire
gets or how much wind is effecting its movement (sides of vehicles).
So take this into consideration when you are depicting your fire and
what & how it's burning, you don't want a slow wafting flame on the
side of a drag car.
Layout a loose & wafting soft feel flame, more like a smoky haze
with minimal sharp edges (stenciling) using SG 103 Molly Orange.
Once you have done this, follow with a coating of KK 11 Apple Red
over all orange areas. The next step is to come back with your Molly
Orange, picking out & sharpening up your first layer with a
selection of "Freehand Stencils" from Medea Iwata, introducing new &
slightly more complex layers, you can link your first layer with the
new layers to create an interaction between colours & layers. Once
you are happy with what you've got down, it's time to coat the whole
lot in KK 08 Tangerine, you will notice that the kandies merge the
colours together & create more colour variations as well.
Now it's time to introduce your SG102 Chrome Yellow. As you move
into brighter colours, you need to be careful not to pump too much
colour into your job, as it will over power the rest of the colours.
Again pick out and sharpen key elements of your fire with your
stencils, linking layers & creating the foreground of the flames,
play with it, there's embers, glows, licks, create your style. My
favourite saying comes into play here, " Innovate, Don't Imitate "
hehe.
Once again when you’re happy with what you've got going on, &
don't forget, Don't over work it, you now bring back your KK 08
Tangerine. This time you aren't going to completely cover your
yellow, instead you are going to blend back only certain areas. This
will help to give the effect of the fire rolling and twisting and it
will also help to create the illusion of flames coming up through
other layers. Yeah no one said this was going to be easy, it's all
about good observation & the need for good reference material.
Now it's time to come back with your SG 102 Chrome Yellow. Again
picking out, highlighting & linking, remember, don't over do it!
Your worry at this stage will be that you will be covering all of
your previous work with each additional layer. Fear not, as you come
up through the layers, you're not following the previous layers,
instead you are cutting across them, linking them highlighting areas
etc.. Once finished, you should be able to look down through all the
layers, with them creating wicked patterns & killer depth.
The next step is, you got it, more kandy, this is the trick
magical colour that makes this stuff "crank", KK 12 Pagan Gold.
Spray this down over all of your work, it not only links all of your
different colours, it brings them to life with a real vibrancy. If
you can't see it now, you certainly will when the job is cleared.
The next step is done with a mixture of 50% SG 102 Chrome Yellow
& 50% BC 26 White. This is the foreground & hottest part of the
fire, LESS IS MORE!!! You over work this step & you kill the effect,
hit the hot spots such as embers & the hottest of licks, you can
introduce hot fire licks at the front also, study your reference
here especially well, you need to see where the fire is at it's
hottest.
Now go back to your KK 12 Pagan Gold and cover it all again.
The final step is to come in with PBC 65 Passion Purple & just
hit the tips of the flames. This gives the fire a real glow with the
pearl kicking & creating a real movement effect, it's quite a trick
look.
You should now have a "hot" finished "True Fire" job. |
