The fine community over at Fireworks Guru Forum help each other out on a daily basis.  One of the members posted links to a few of their own tutorials today, and they show some really good techniques.

Here’s a great tutorial on drawing flowers using the Star autoshape, and here’s another for creating flames using the wave gradient and a few curves filters. Here’s what I drew using these tutorials:

Flower drawn with Adobe Fireworks Autoshape

Flames drawn with Adobe Fireworks