100 Styles 7 - Gradients - Fire

Fire effect (Click the image to see it bigger)

Today I was playing around with the default gradients and the Outer Glow effect when I came upon this effect. Or rather the beginning of it as there is more to the above image than the Outer Glow. Read on for info on how I created the above effect and to be able to download the style for yourself to experiment with.

Experiment 103: Abstracted fire

Created in Inkscape 0.46 using a Wacom Intuos 3

Some simple shapes duplicated and edited in size, color and rotation to create this image.

Day 90: Fire from within

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

Within the intricate patterns a fire is burning, the smoke is covering the entrance to the netherworld. The sky is shining, with a radioactive glow.

And all this out of some experimentation in Photoshop :-) And a twisted imagination of course ;-)

Day 88: Flames in fractal landscape

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Bamboo

Playing with "fractal brushes" again :-) And yeah, fractal landscapes refer to the brushes rather than the landscape, the landscape is not fractal in and of itself.

Day 80: Deconstructing fire 2

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

Experimenting with fire and a different style of image.
Photomanipulation and drawing upon that.

Day 79: Fire and apples

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

If you're looking for the apples I got to tell you that it's the flowers I'm talking about, they're apple flowers ;-)
Photomanipulation and a few effects.

Day 78: Deconstructing fire

Created in Photoshop CS3 Extended using a Wacom Intuos 3

It's fun to play with fire, and when it's digital it's not very dangerous either.
Photomanipulation and some paths for the "idealised" fire.

Day 63: Fight the fire

Created in openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

About as abstract as it gets, an axe above a volcano =)

Day 57: Burning table

Created in openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

Fire can be very devastating in reality, but it's very fun to create as an effect in a graphics program. It's not as hot to deal with this kind of fire either.

Day 44: Fire dragon

Created in openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

The last few days I've been in a pattern theme, now I'm in a dragon theme, so I'd expect more dragons if I were you ;) And judging by the titles of these last ones I'd guess it'll be another "elemental dragon", but not fire.

I just realized that he looks a bit tired, that might be due to me being tired right now though.

Day 36: In the eye of the dragon

Created in Artrage 2.5 and openCanvas 4.5 using a Wacom Intuos 3

This image is inspired by an image found on: http://www.wadbring.com/historia/sidor/skepp.htm which is a Swedish site about history (has got a lot of info on the Viking time, only in Swedish however, so unless you know Swedish you'll have to look at the pictures and use your imagination ;) ).

I began by doing a pencil sketch in Artrage and then moved on to openCanvas to color it and add the background.