How to Paint Fire ( Tutorial )

If you're ready, let's start !

 Step 1 

Use the airbrush to draw the shape of the fire with orange. I used about 80% density. Try to make it curvy and avoid spiky shapes.

 Step 2 

On a new layer, take a reddish color and paint on the orange with the airbrush with a 100% density. Follow the curvy shapes.
After that, do this with mouse: take a hard edged eraser with about 70% density and randomly click around the red erasing parts of the edges. This gives it the shape of a flame. Try different densities and brush sizes and move your mouse just a bit around when you do this.

 Step 3 

 Create a new layer and set it on luminosity mode. With the airbrush with around 20% density, paint in with bright yellow. Again, follow the curvy shapes.

 Step 4 

Create another layer with the luminosity mode. With the brush, paint in with white with several strokes from down to top. Use about 60% density.

 Step 5 

 If your fire is lacking color, make a new layer with overlay mode and set it to around 30%. Paint on it with orange.

Your fire is now done!