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Flame Drawing Tutorial for Beginners

Learning how to draw flames is pretty easy if you follow some basic principles. We'll show you step by step how to create flame drawings that you can use to accent your artwork.

There are many different uses for drawing flames. You can add them to the side of a car. Or maybe make some flaming letters.

Maybe you want to draw a campfire or a lit fireplace. All of these things will be much easier to draw after you understand how to draw flames.

This is a drawing I did for one of my students where flames were added to the background.

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So let's go ahead and get started.

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Art Supplies

Paper or cardstock
Pencil
Eraser
Black outliner
Markers (Bic)

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Flame Drawing Basics

When drawing your flames, you want to be sure you follow some basic techniques. This is the key to drawing good flames.

You want the tips of your flames to be narrow and pointed at the top, and wider at the bottom.

A single flame, like what you would see on a candle, is the shape of a tear drop.

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But today we are going to make our flames more complex and a bit fancier than a candle flame.

You could still think of your flame shape as being a tear drop, but we are going to add some extra curves to it as well. And then we'll repeat that process with some variation to make our flame drawings.

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How to Draw Flames – Step by Step Tutorial

Start with your basic flame shape. You can draw a tear drop to help you get started if you need to.

Draw two curved shapes. One longer, and one shorter. They should both be narrow and pointed at the top. And rounded and wider at the bottom.

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Draw the same type of lines next to that flame, but bring it down a little lower on the paper. You want to keep the same type of lines with your flames, but you can vary the way your flames curve.

Repeat this process a third time, again making your flame slightly smaller than the one next to it.

Do the same thing to the left of your original flame, keeping in mind there's no need for symmetry.

Add in some small pieces of leaping flame. These can be randomly placed, and of no particular shape.

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Flame Outline

There are many choices when it comes to coloring your flames. The two most popular are markers or colored pencils.

For this lesson I'll be showing you how to use Bic markers to color your flame drawings. You can read why I prefer using them in my marker review.

Begin by tracing over your pencil lines with a black outlining marker or pen. This step is optional and depends on your artistic style.

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Flame Color

Next, fill in the entire flame with yellow. Optionally, you can fill in only the lower areas. But my preference is to fill it all in to make it easier to blend colors.

Using orange, color in the top part of each part of the flame. You can leave more yellow if you prefer. Do what looks good to you.

Use red to add color around the edges of your flame drawing. Again, you can make adjustments to how much red you add.

As you're working, go back in with the lighter colors to help blend your markers together. If you need more help with this, go to our marker blending guide.

There are many ways to incorporate flames into your artwork. Here's another drawing I did for one of my students where flames were added to the bottom of the letters.

How to Draw Flames Drawing Challenge

I always encourage my students to do several drawings of the same thing. You can do a drawing a day for seven days. Or, work on your drawings for a little bit each day for longer. The goal is to practice repetition with your artwork.

By doing these challenges you'll find your creativity begin to increase. And you'll also begin to develop your artistic style while creating original works of art.

Here are the results of my flames drawing challenge.

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How to Draw Flames – Step by Step with Pictures

I hope you found this art tutorial helpful. Play around with how you draw your flames and add color to them. Discovery is made through experimentation.

Learning how to draw flames, or anything else, should be fun and relaxing. And anyone can learn how to draw with practice and repetition. Grab your Drawing Challenge Guide and get started today!

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