So, I challenged myself to take on a request from someone and ended up needing to learn how to draw gold. (He wanted something similar to my avatar.) I think it’s not too bad, but I’d like to hear what someone else thinks… 
I’m thinking of making it a gif, with sparkles and gemstones raining around it, and I’ll change the background to something more interesting…
I think you are up to a good start.
I recommend to look for reference material ‘golden lucky cat statue’ if you want to improve further about lighting, shape and colour.
Metal material is rather hard for me as well but lucky there are may pictures of golden cats on the internet^^
Thank you! 
I did use a reference (several as a matter of fact), but it will take more projects and further reading to get better. Glad to hear I’m not the only one who finds metal texture challenging. 
