Help me improve...

[Cyanide]

This the first time I've posted any of my art on these forums. I haven't really done anything that I thought was remotely worthy of posting here until now. I'd like to hear from some of you concerning what areas I need to work on most.

http://www.clanbbw.com/publicimg/data/images/CO2Launcher.jpg

I was asked to replicate another artist's design for a flame thrower here as a sort of try-out for a concept artist position for a game mod. I couldn't find a good reference for the fire, so I sort of improved it from my imagination. It's not great, but it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would.
http://www.clanbbw.com/publicimg/data/images/FlameThrowerConcept.jpg

[sula_nebouxi]

Fire and flamethrower references:

http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~atso/flamethrower-boat.jpg
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~atso/flamethrower-fire-breather.jpg

Flamethrowers just shoot a flammable liquid and ingnite it as soon as it comes out. The stream is never straight. I don't think gas(i don't mean gasoline) would work for a flamethrower. It would make it more like a giant cigarette lighter than an actual weapon. This is from a realistic standpoint so I don't really know how far this is supposed to be stylized if at all.

Anyways aside from realism, I'm not sure if I can help you out with anything else. Actually I think you would get more help in the Sketches forum. This one is more for stuff from life.

[Cyanide]

Thanks. I guess a mod could move the thread to sketches. I just posted it here because this forum said "Learning".