Re: Dwarf warrior and Fire Elemental

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on
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Sjeng wrote

Fire is supposed to be painted from light to dark, not the other way around. A flame is brightest at the core, and turns darker on the outside.

I'm glad some one has brought this myth up on my forum, because now I get to do ...



You see I do not paint fire the wrong way, I paint fire based on observation ...

Fire is not brightest “at it's core” it's brightest along the tongues of the flame -  lets google up some pictures of fire and look …

 


You'll notice that bright parts of the flame form in narrow lines, which are represented by the thin raised areas of the sculpt - while the darker parts of the flame are the much wider rounded areas between and around the tongues, which are represented by the lower flat areas of the sculpt - thus the raised areas of the sculpt should be painted lightest

Don't agree? Lets put things side by side …



I think what people are trying to do when they paint with what I call the 'Inverse Fire Technique'; is paint the glow around the flame, which is of course impossible to represent in a 3 dimensional opaque medium because flames produce light and are not opaque in nature, the lighter part of flames shine though the darker patches - but by painting the raised areas of sculpted fire darker you are merely obscuring the 'glow' and creating odd inverted looking flames.  



and that is why I paint fire the way I do