What are some good brushes to make fire and flames?

[le_dino]

I think I downloaded the majority of the bundles on this site but I reckon I basically only have… one fire brush.

While I experiment with what I have, is there any reccomendation?

[Michelist]

Sorry, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity of this assist for an off-topic post:

Usually it’s the brushes made of wood, preferably with strong handles and abundant remnants of oil and acrylic paints in the bristles…
And don’t forget to take a lot of them!

Michelist

[tachiko]

You might be inspired by this post:

Making flames is fun, might make tutorial

[flamechimcharr]

The liquify tool can come in handy too. Or the mesh transform tool. As well as play a bit of the wave filter Maybe gmic has stuff too.
Using Fill brush on a transparent mask layer too can be good

I used some of the concept illustration bundke

Concept & Illustration Lite Bundle

[promo2] Download here Nothing fancy. It’s just a minimal version of the previous bundle with some tweaks and a few new brushes. The idea is to reduce the brush amount to a minimum in order to avoid distractions while keeping versatility to do whatever you want. I hope you like it

I like the thin long ones that changes depending on the angle
Some of it is technique when moving cursor. And maybe having the brush rotate a certain way when moving.
As well as go back over a stroke using a brush as an eraser and removing parts.

Look for smoke brushes too. Like the smoke you would see from a cigarette sitting in n ash tray

Painting realistic smoke

[2] [Capture] Here are the settings I used to make it work somewhat. Decreasing the iterations and increasing particles helps, but you still sometimes notice the steps, so you could just create a filter layer/mask and blur the sections that have clear steps in them. Or you could also use a smudge/transform brush to blur certain sections. Alternatively you could just paint the smoke. I did this with a simple round brush in this painting: [Christmas Candle]