How to draw gold / metallic object with colored pencils -- A golden beetle.

In this tutorial, i am sharing some tips for drawing gold or metallic objects in general. I am drawing a golden beetle for the demo as i find it easy to understand the basics with that. I have used prismacolor pencils and faber castell polychromos pencils for the demo. Time taken for the drawing -- 1.5 hours. Follow me on Twitter -- Facebook -- Tumblr -- BGM -- Air Hockey Saloon by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license () Source: Artist: