Acrylic Knife

How can I paint something to make it look metallic/shiny (using acrylic paints)?

My painting includes a knife and other silver, metal objects – I am trying to make it look more realistic, so more metallic-looking and more shiny… how can I do this without actually using metallic paints? (I am using acrylic paints).

I would agree that using a combination of dark and light grays plus white highlights would do the trick. Using iridescent paints as highlights is never really a bad thing, though, and you could also try adding shimmer powder to the white to make it pop more. I’ve tried this myself and it worked well.

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