Happy Flame

This little guy was made by following along with a tutvid tutorial. The flame shape was made using some rounded rectangles and the pathfinder window. Everything was coloured with gradients. The highlights and blush are just solid color shapes with their blend mode set to soft light. The sparks in the background are just symbols edited with the symbol sizer and spinner tools. I expanded the shapes to apply the gradients. Illustrator, Gr 11.