How to Paint Flame Texture in a Portrait

Video Transcript

"So first we're going to take a nice round brush and now apply some of our purple color to it, as you start to add in flame textured effects, on our one subjects clothing. Let’s start up here, along the shoulder line. What we're going to do, with our small round brush is just starting to add some areas of additional dark purple and we're going to taper them towards the end. So you're going to have somewhat what looks like a little tadpole or flame trail and that's the effect we're going for. Starting wider at the base and then taper. We're going to continue this throughout. The one thing I'm going to caution you against is already these shapes are looking a little similar and a little equally spaced apart. Try to avoid that so maybe on this one, we'll make the main, kind of bottom of the flame trail, wider and on this one, we'll make it come down a little further. Definitely throw a lot of variety into the work. This is kind of the first step. Another thing you can do, to kind of again, bring out some of the flame emphasis, is to add highlighting of white. Bringing these down through the flame, right towards the base. These are going to make these doubly stand out and give more of a flame effect. If you ever look at flame, it's not just a monochrome color, there's a lot of different colors going on throughout. We're going to extend this effect throughout our shirt area. We'll have bigger flame trails, smaller ones but basically the affect we're doing, and this is one of the alternative affects, it's not just to make this normal top but rather is to make it something that looks a little bit more like kind of fiery, almost something demonic."