Element study: liquid metal

 Since my designs are inspired by Davina India's renders, I would like to achieve the same textures she renders. For this, I have decided to learn how to draw materials that resemble mercury as realistically as possible. 

This is the texture I am looking for:

Davina India's Hope (left), Konti Chr's Creature (right)

And these are the tutorials I will be following,

Tutorial n. 1: Introduction to Liquid Metal with Don Seegmiller 

Tutorial n. 2: How to paint metal and reflective textures

Since I am working on my laptop I chose digital tutorials to get the most accurate help. Here are my outcomes: