How to create a super shiny pencil icon in Photoshop

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Eren Göksel wrote a tutorial that anyone can follow to create a drawing of a pencil in Photoshop.

The Pencil is one of the visual metaphors most used to express creativity. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to draw a pencil icon. We'll have a look at gradients, selection tools, and basic transform operations. Let's have some fun with this.

I'd love to see Boing Boing readers' variations on this. If you create one, please link to it in the comments section.

How to create a super shiny pencil icon in Photoshop