I used photodirector which is an app after taking a photo of a lit gas ring.

I rotated the image then created 4 versions. Then I changed the filters and made the images darker, then I cloned the image, added it on top of the previous, one then did a second layer and rotated it a bit more…

A long explanation… But trying to get across that I have never used AI xxx I call this digital sketching  or doodling x