Create a Burning Match in Illustrator Using Gradient Meshes

If you want to create vector flames in Illustrator, in this tutorial you'll learn how to create an illustration of a burning match using a fire gradient. You’ll master the gradient mesh tool in Illustrator, and you'll learn how to make a realistic match flame that is fully scalable.

Key points of the tutorial:

• How to Create a Vector Matchstick 00:24
• How to Create a Vector Match Head 2:20
• How to Create a Vector Flame 4:33
• How to Create Vector Smoke 6:34
• How to Create the Final Composition 8:19

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[thefoxyAI]

That is a very high quality tutorial. Well done. Thanks!

[diegoandresarancibia]

impresionante, me encanto el fuego que creaste

[wendyyuen]

amazing tutorial and please show more in the future. thank you so much.

[Amir-lzsq]

That's awesome.... I hope you will make a video tutorial of how to add lighting and shadows to convert 2D shapes into 3D...
And thank you again

[nishazmohamed]

Awesome and was very helpful for a studying person like me.thank you

[Yasir]

Good work, thank you that was beautiful. 🔥👌🙏🔥🔥

[edwardpowley]

can this be done with a transparent background?

[hannisafaunang]

hi, i have a trouble when changing tranparancy to be screen mode. it must be yellow but it changed to be white. can you give me explaination n how to fix it? thank you a lot before

[itsmemimi]

Wow amazing❤️, thank you for sharing video to us 🙏😊

[abhishekshinde]

When I select blending mode as screen on black background object turns white

[sanjeevarthurr]

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙪𝙡😍✨❤ 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙄𝙩'𝙨 𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙀𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚... 𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙒𝙤𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙖𝙧𝙚 Asians ( Even Indian Or Chinese) except Japanese are Not Capable to Create this type of Illustration in Adobe Illustrator Love❤ from India🇮🇳

[arsalshaikh]

When I turn the flame into screen mode, the orange color converts into grey .. Any solutions ?

[sean.sullivan]

is it possible to do this in cmyk mode?

[chris-emns]

Can you do it on any other color background? Every guide I see always uses black. I need it on a light gray background.

[samnoel]

Awesome work 👏. Could you pls send the color codes it would be useful. Thank u.

[scorpiongirl]

it was hard for me uff still tried a lot 😁

[asiasaunders]

Can this be done on any background color or do you have to use black

[sumaiyaaktermithela]

So fast your video, pls make this video a little bit slower. thank you.

[irodriguez]

Did Julia Child made the voice for this video?