I forgot to upscale the source image before I worked on it, so I ended up with a 4mm pixel grid on the paper.
Improvised the curves a bit and it turned out much better than I expected!

Also I'm going low on gold paint, I'll have to rebuy some.
Also It's easier to tell from the cardboard in real life, quite hard to photograph.

Spent most of the day sleeping, then used the rest of the time for work. Inspiration was sparse and I did't realy come up with anything for a while. Let's see what this looks like on cardboard later.