How to Draw Flames · Art Projects for Kids

How to Depict Flames

Larn how to depict flames similar those seen in a campfire. Extra flame tips and color get a long mode to create a more than realistic look.

How to Draw a Flame — A finished cartoon of flames, as seen in a campfire

If cartoon solid shapes is catchy enough, then drawing something that is moving and kind of transparent and filled with millions of colors is on another plane entirely. Not to worry, the pros can go after painting the super realistic stuff, and perhaps make a career out of it, just there's plenty that the beginner can do to upward their flame skills as well.

For example, most everyone starts out drawing a flame on a candle as a kind of tear drop shape that is filled with an orangish color. That'south a great place to start, and certainly looks pretty shut to the real thing, just it'south not that hard to add just a trivial bit more complexity.

For instance, students might kickoff to run across that the middle of the flame is often a different color than the exterior edge, and the overall fire isn't e'er just one smooth shape. Well, so information technology might be a fun time to attempt something like this tutorial. It will walk students through drawing some layered fire shapes, which could and so of course be filled with several shades of hot colors.

The good news is that just the idea of making more curvy tipped edges will help, along with using three hot colors instead of just one. If students just try that out, along with some unproblematic logs for a campfire look, their burn cartoon is probable to have much more complication than information technology ever had before.