Drawing a cute flame character

Every week i make a simple art blog tutorial for the beginner artists so they can learn drawing digitally .

This week im drawing a Cute little flame character inspired from Ghibli studios Character califer .

So firstly i made a wiggly "S" figure with the wavy line tool just like that we will make more wavy "S" that join together at the point until we have a flame like figure

Next i duplicated the flame base and made it smaller so this is our base

Here is a sketch i did and followed i made the expressions exactly like that again digitally . You can do it by tracing the sketch or u can just make similar shapes and draw . For the eye i made one cute eye duplicated it and flipped it in opposite direction so it looks symitrical. And made some amber like flames on top of it

I filled it with flat colors i used Yellow orange colors however you can used blue and green too to make a willow whisp .

For the lineart this time i used the exact same shade and it looks so cute this way . Experimenting with different shades and trying new things is essential that is what makes you discover your art style .

Next i added a gradient thats darker maroon on corners and has a soft pale yellow at the middle

Now for the glow i turned the background off and saved the character as transparent png and imported it after the background layer and i guassian blurred it and set the layer on add . And you can see a the flame is glowy you can use smudge brush to make it a bit wiggly

I also duplicated the layer and made its shape a bit wiggly so now it looks like two wiggly glowy layers this gives it that moving flame look.

Now we added some highlights to our flame's eyes and here is the final look ❤️

Thank you for your precious time and support ❤️