Hell hath no fury (working title)

[nhall]

Ok, so this is based on a rough sketch I did about a year ago.

It's a trial-and-error WIP in many different effects styles. Everything here is hand-painted, I'm using no filters here.

Your thoughts?

Cheers,
Nick

[cavebear]

I like it but it needs more depth. You might find that if you can do a field of fire and flame, starting from the back and advancing forward as you create the picture, it might give it that depth. Have you ever sen some of the films that couple of vulcanologists did before they died in an eruption? They filmed eruptions from very close. You could see the heat shimmer, the hellish glow and the immense scale of the events from the films they made. I figure your pic could do with some of the heat shimmer for sure but I would like to see more depth. Great start

[Tovette]

You'll find that fire, like large scale brush fires, are mostly orange in color with some yellow. There's almost never red as the fire burns too hot most of the time for red to be visible. The closest it ever gets to red is a burnt orange tinge.

It's great work so far. I'm not sure if that's an outline of mountains or hills in the foreground. If it is then your flames are out of proportion. Also adding bloom in an orange value range will help as large fires usually emit enough light to create a blooming effect.

Another good thing to add is embers. Depending on the kind of fuel the fire has to burn there could be a crapload of embers blowing off in the hot air the fire is generating or only a little.

Another thing to remember is the smoke. In your image it looks like the fire is at night. You normally wouldn't see smoke but the light from the fire would cast a glow upon the smoke rising from it from below.

Keep it up!