While all non metallic metals are very fun to create, I especially like golds. They allow for many interesting contrasts between lights and darks, muted and saturated colors, as well as warmer vs cooler tones.
The key to all NMM is in that reflected light, and reflected colors. This is interesting on regular metal, but with gold, using warmer tans and sienna against the purples and blues reflected in it.
You can see the differences in the sword blade, where the same colors were reflected. However, it is less of a temperature contrast. I normally use a lot of purples and greens in my gold NMM, and this was an ideal candidate!
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