Thank you for the praise.
It really means a lot. I am glad you picked up on the title, sometimes it seems like nobody ever reads them. As to the fire, I know right? It's easy with paint, a bit harder but doable with colored pencils, but with just monochromatic graphite... I need advice from someone that actually knows what they are doing. Poor, uneducated, untrained me is having trouble figuring it out on my own.