Adult Coloring 101: How to Create Gold without Using a Metallic Pencil

Learn how to create a realistic gold effect in your adult coloring books without ever picking up a metallic gold pencil. I'll show you my 6-color combination using Prismacolors to make your gold pop right off the page. It is super simple, takes just a few seconds, and makes a world of difference.
First time publishing to KZbin, so you'll have to forgive all of my beginner mistakes!
Coloring Book: Johanna Basford's Enchanted Forest
Mediums: Prismacolor Premier 150ct Set
Music is royalty-free from KZbin.
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Website: colorfullyoptimistic.wordpress.com

[@katecurrie7499]

Lovely depth of colour, great tutorial, you have a very clear way of explaining the method 💕

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thank you! I'm glad to hear it helped!

[@victoriousorchid9153]

First time watching your video and I’m a fan… Love the way you explained how to use the combination of colors… 🤩

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thanks so much 😊

[@dlmgibson]

Thank you so much for this tutorial!!! I am new to adult coloring and this was very helpful. Your work is lovely!

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe no problem at all. I'm glad it helped you!

[@BrokeVestors]

Golden Rod? In Star Wars, that's C3PO's nickname! Great Gold Effect. Looks better than most of the golden ink and pencils I've tried using over the years!

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe well thank you! Just gives a more 3D effect IMO. 💜

[@swift6766]

That was a fantastic tutorial. I had no idea it took so many colors to make gold. I really like your shadings on your pictures. I think I could even apply some of this to my graphic art. 😁

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thank you! I hope it helps with your design work :)

[@JojozaHannaHawaii]

Loved this tutorial and the effect is superb!!🌺🌺

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe thank you. I've been meaning to make other metals but didn't get to it yet. It's in my ever growing list lol

[@markymalarky3938]

Enjoyed this very much. I liked the easy to follow instructions. Tyvm.

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thank you!

[@somak1029]

White Goldenrod Dark umber Yellow ochre Burnt ochre Canary yellow

[@soucky1]

Really beautiful and i love the way you've explain it's very easy to follow your technique which is fun to learn & watch so thank you so very much foir this Awesome tutorial xx

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thank you so much 😊

[@soucky1]

@@ColorfullyOptimistic My pleasure dear xx

[@Patracat]

Thanks for this excellent tutorial Kori. Don't know how I missed it after all this time! I have a box of so called metallic pencils of different brands and am always disappointed in the results when I have used them. What is the point of having them! Do you ever use them at all? I would like to know how you use them in your colouring, if you do at all.

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Actually I do use them sometimes in wood grains and other applications, but not for metal :)

[@cindyshirreffs2099]

I would really like to know too! I've not seen any colour book artist use these, would like to know how to properly apply to get the best out of them

[@bethbrady8146]

Going back and.learning so much from your videos!

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe thank you. This was my first tutorial I think lol

[@bethbrady8146]

@@ColorfullyOptimistic it helped a ton And I went back and watched blending!! Thank you so much!!(:

[@manthasagittarius1]

I have an idea, for making these grand instructional pieces. You seem to prefer light coming over your right shoulder, which throws the shadow onto the pencil point. If it is not too distracting or too distorting for your color perception while you work, could there also be a light source from the other side? I am so enjoying watching closely at the pencil point what you are doing, and so much of it is new to me. Also, I'm old, and not as sharp eyed as I was once, although I'm fine for doing this wicked new hobby.

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

So, if you look at the date, this video is literally one of the first I ever made on this channel. It's a very old tutorial I've left up, but I have plenty of others you can watch as well that don't have these issues. I was brand new to filming, YT, and sharing my coloring tips

[@manthasagittarius1]

Thank you. I'm glad you did leave this one up! I am subscribing, and looking forward to learning from as many of your instructional pieces as I can find.

[@manthasagittarius1]

Thank you. I'm glad you did leave this one up! I am subscribing, and looking forward to learning from as many of your instructional pieces as I can find.

[@manthasagittarius1]

Thank you. I'm glad you did leave this one up! I am subscribing, and looking forward to learning from as many of your instructional pieces as I can find.

[@manthasagittarius1]

Thank you. I'm glad you did leave this one up! I am subscribing, and looking forward to learning from as many of your instructional pieces as I can find.

[@manthasagittarius1]

I've always wondered what the point was of metallic pencils, ever since I had gold and silver Crayola crayons to make crowns on kings and queens, and they looked awful, so I used yellow after all. Now that I can talk like a grownup 😁 I realize that these metallic are supposed to actually BE their color, where other colors are used to REPRESENT what things look like in the world under your eyes, but aren't really. This is where color blending (with color theory, and even the psychology of perception, a pretty scary complicated topic but fascinating) comes in. Unless you are actually laying real gold on your canvas, like Klimt, you have to find a combination of colors that looks like gold would, under the particular lighting conditions you've got going. This gold you achieved here is great, with a lot of care given to light falling on it as an object in three dimensions. I loved watching it come to life under your hand, and gained some good insights about blending between boundaries of color gradation between shadow and highlight. Thank you!

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Oh thank you. I enjoy creating good and silver myself. Gives you more control over the final effects

[@rosiecraftedcolours2231]

Great tutorial 💜

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Thank you! 😊

[@kellyluvskolors2083]

Re-watching from oldest to newest and adding my likes back to all the video's that got deleted. Hopefully going into January 2024 you are NOT working too hard. And are able to enjoy the holidays illness free with your leftovers and taste & smell. And can also enjoy your birthday too. 😊 much love Kori 🫂

[@lesleyakhrass6354]

Best tutorial on gold. Thank you x

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe thank you so much!

[@Colors_in_the_attick]

Thank you 🌺👌

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

Awe thank you for watching

[@jessierae1980]

Did u do one for silver?

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

I definitely can! I'll add that to my list :). Do you want to see it with Prismacolor?

[@colorcrazy2944]

@@ColorfullyOptimistic I would like to see silver also, I have always liked it more than gold. To me metallic pencils only look shiny if the light is hitting them at the right angle, so this is a lot better. I would like to do this for every color of metallic (or maybe the entire rainbow lol) so I can completely avoid metallic pencils, so if you have any hints for choosing colors to do any metallic color that would be great too! I just found that I had some Prismacolors, they were not opened and are not shapened. I don't care what brand you use, anything will help get me started.

[@colorcrazy2944]

it dawned on me to do a search for doing metallic colors without metallic pencils. I will be trying all the ones I can find! Thank you for doing this one & getting me started.

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

@@colorcrazy2944 Of course! Once my move is over, I have a bunch of "metal" tutorial series using multiple brands I plan to release ;)

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

@@colorcrazy2944 Yes, I think I'll start with my silver series first

[@amrutharajesh8727]

I hav staedtler pencils I think I got it but is there any way you can guide me? Maybe through Instagram

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

It turned out great!

[@amrutharajesh8727]

Thankyou😊

[@ColorfullyOptimistic]

@@amrutharajesh8727 No problem at all :)