Burning Log

I had a terrible time creating this artwork because I don't know how to make fire look real.

To start off with, I redrew the outlines once again because the scanner was not that good.

I had used Magic Wand on the inner part of the hands + log and then used Brush Tool to paint those areas.
I also had created several layers of colour tones to for shading purposes later on.

I had created a rectangle box using the Line Tool. I found out that the line was too thin, so I pressed " ] " to increase the width of the lines. Then, I had copied that rectangle box into many layers to distort them into different shapes and sizes. For each rectangle box, I have tried all of the Free Transform options. I had used Marque Tool > Free Transform > Scale, Rotate, Skew, Distort, Perspective, Warp. It was fun experimenting on all of the options as they give different effects to the rectangle boxes.

I had a some trouble shading because it is hard for me to imagine that the light source is from the middle. I had used Eraser Tool at 22% Opacity & 22% Flow but it wasn't effective.

Thus, I eventually used Burn Tool to darken the areas.

Then, I created a layer filled with Black Colour and placed it above the White background. And I used the Eraser Tool at 22% Opacity & 22% Flow to create an effect.

 To start off with the fire, I went to Colour Picker & searched for the Red Colour. I roughly drew the fire on the artwork in a new layer. After that, I used Linear Dodge for this layer.

 Then, I searched for Orange Colour via Colour Picker and drew it on the artwork on a new layer. Subsequently, I used Colour Burn for this layer to create a glowing effect.

After that, I used Colour Picker to search for the Yellow Colour that I wanted and drew it on the fire on another new layer. Then, I used Screen to make the Yellow stand out from the fire.
The modified rectangles's Opacity were changed to blend into the artwork. Some were changed to 80% and some were changed to 60%.