Thanks Guys! Anyone want me to post a text tutorial on how to create this effect???
In essence to create this, just grab an image and put it into gimp as a new document, have just the person in 1 layer without the background, make him/her black (colors/colorize) make a layer below that for your background and make a new layer above it all and make the hill/grind rail (I just used paths, a brush, and filled that with black) then the light streaks are stoking a path at 8px (bg color for the line streak) and another 4px stroke on the path above that, the 8px 1 has a 8px gaussian blur, and 4px 1 a 4px gaussian blur I merged thoughs together and then made another new layer and stroked that with the sparks brush, and went to colors/colorize to adjust the color, and then merged it down, then did the erasing to make it go over, and under the object, in this case Rodney Mullen skateboarding