Smells like someone's singeing ducks in here. Eeww that smell, can't ya smell that smell? Excellento superbo on the fireo. And as much as I love the orange dinosaur thing with the butterfly and the ppl in the 50's picture, I think this is my favorite you've done so far. It is just smashing.
terrific job on this one... and..we used to do this when we were kids too... spray lighter fluid on our hands and light it...
stand there with flames in our hands.. (glad I still have hands left.. )
Wow, thanks everyone. I hate to disappoint you but this one was not from my head. I based it on a painting by a comic book artist I got off the internet. I thought drawing hands and drawing fire would be challanging so gave it a whirl. I basicly added color and used the blur tool adjusted to less than full strength and blured the flame colors. I found a neat way to finish the tips of the flames was to draw a 1 pixel wide line and then slightly blur it over and over until it gave the effect you see here. btw davinci you are a wild man. the closest thing I did like that was burn the old Off bug foam on my pants leg 8D
This is impressive, I can see why it made the showcase! Like Poppa Davinci, I wondered whether this was done from a live model, or at least one who provided the inspiration (which is a testimony to the quality of the work, since I've seen this view live, more than once).
Mind you, I was never stupid (or cold) enough to do this myself, but I have had friends who did. So, let me add to the general knowledge fund by saying that you can use rubbing alcohol for this trick (some stage magicians do it)... ...or, to judge from the people I've known who did this, you can simply miss while refilling your lighter with lighter fluid, and set your pants leg on fire, frantically dancing around in flames to a response of general hilarity which significantly impedes fire extinguishing and first aid efforts. In other words, these are, in my opinion, equally bad ideas -- but they seem to catch the interest of certain types of people. <LOL>
I've even known people who'd do this to warm up, but then, they were living on the streets at the time, and I certainly wouldn't recommend them as role models to anyone not interested in landing in the morgue... <sigh> See also: "You mean you did this to yourself ON PURPOSE??? You idiot, now I'm laughing too hard to give you first aid -- and besides you deserve to wait, and feel like the complete fool you made of yourself, for doing this!" But you do get some interesting double-takes when you're explaining that the burns on your arm are "from setting yourself on fire -- wrong?!? You mean there's a *RIGHT* way to set yourself on fire???" So, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS UNLESS YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL.
That said, though, as I look at this some more, and speaking as someone who's seen this stunt pulled in real life, I can attest that the light and shadow don't look right -- those flames cast light onto the arm, in real life at least, so primary light source illuminating the arm is (at least in part) the fire itself. Since the whole arm is on fire, the shadowed areas will be the areas at the bottom, as the fire licks upward, up the arm, as the hot gases rise.
Also, for what it's worth, the brightest light usually comes from the yellow/white part of the flames; the blue base of the flame (blue from the alcohol's additives, at least, if this is done with rubbing alcohol as the vapourizing flammable liquid) will be dim, almost invisible, and the red part of the flame tends not to cast much light, either, but the yellow part is often quite bright, creating some fascinating dancing patterns of shadow and light.
Thug...i think this was based on Alex Ross` work, the comic artist...but thanks for being honest and confessing earlier on...lol
I think you did a great job in any case and im sure u learned a lot by copying it:)
drawn in 1 hour 54 min
How did you get it to blend so well???
stand there with flames in our hands.. (glad I still have hands left.. )
Mind you, I was never stupid (or cold) enough to do this myself, but I have had friends who did. So, let me add to the general knowledge fund by saying that you can use rubbing alcohol for this trick (some stage magicians do it)... ...or, to judge from the people I've known who did this, you can simply miss while refilling your lighter with lighter fluid, and set your pants leg on fire, frantically dancing around in flames to a response of general hilarity which significantly impedes fire extinguishing and first aid efforts. In other words, these are, in my opinion, equally bad ideas -- but they seem to catch the interest of certain types of people. <LOL>
I've even known people who'd do this to warm up, but then, they were living on the streets at the time, and I certainly wouldn't recommend them as role models to anyone not interested in landing in the morgue... <sigh> See also: "You mean you did this to yourself ON PURPOSE??? You idiot, now I'm laughing too hard to give you first aid -- and besides you deserve to wait, and feel like the complete fool you made of yourself, for doing this!" But you do get some interesting double-takes when you're explaining that the burns on your arm are "from setting yourself on fire -- wrong?!? You mean there's a *RIGHT* way to set yourself on fire???" So, PLEASE DON'T DO THIS UNLESS YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL.
That said, though, as I look at this some more, and speaking as someone who's seen this stunt pulled in real life, I can attest that the light and shadow don't look right -- those flames cast light onto the arm, in real life at least, so primary light source illuminating the arm is (at least in part) the fire itself. Since the whole arm is on fire, the shadowed areas will be the areas at the bottom, as the fire licks upward, up the arm, as the hot gases rise.
Also, for what it's worth, the brightest light usually comes from the yellow/white part of the flames; the blue base of the flame (blue from the alcohol's additives, at least, if this is done with rubbing alcohol as the vapourizing flammable liquid) will be dim, almost invisible, and the red part of the flame tends not to cast much light, either, but the yellow part is often quite bright, creating some fascinating dancing patterns of shadow and light.
I think you did a great job in any case and im sure u learned a lot by copying it:)
go well
mx