Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[JosephCow]

Decided to do a study tonight because I saw this little golden apple shaped knick knack at the thrift store, and it got me thinking about how often this material comes up in concept art and illustration, and how hard it can be to paint this type of metal specifically without kind of doing tricks and stuff that aren't quite right. 

I think I really understand it better now, the bottom left is from imagination based on the other 3. It really needs to be like you're painting a scene inside the object, that is warped, but then also taking a step back and seeing the object as a solid form that you can sculpt with the different values reflected in it.