Something I did years ago

I am not an artist, but I really enjoy doing these. If any of you play Skyrim, you will recognise the Wolf of Solitude. In the games it is often seen on a Shield. Now I have a faint circle drawn around it but what I was wondering is if I put my tool on low heat and drew lines down it would it give it that look of the boards on a Shield? Would it be best to make the lines very slightly not straight to make the 'boards' more natural looking?

I'm terrible at interesting titles...

Wife requested a burn she saw on a tee shirt. Turned out pretty well. Last bit she wants to color in, so burn area finished.

Hey guys. We just lost our tuxedo boy and I’m doing a portrait of him for my fiancée. I really want to do him justice, so I was hoping to get some advice on creating a good texture. Here’s what I have so far. This is on birch btw. Thank you in advance!

This was such a fight. Took a lot longer than expected and that's saying a lot for me, since all of mine take longer than I expect. This one was approaching the "okay, I'm going to toss this and sell my equipment" amount of time. But it's done!

The triforce was freehand and obviously the worst part, I traced the rest with carbon paper.

The thing I struggle with the most is going too deep when starting a line

I have posted this piece before but i recently painted it so reposting.

This is likely the most densely packed map I have made so far, with the various icons, cities, location names, and different biomes. Although this was intended it also made the piece a little difficult to read when at a distance or hung on a wall, so I felt it was the best one to test my painting and colouring skills out on.

I used a combination of cheap water colours, basic circle paints, paint pens, and pencils. Overall, the map took roughly 50 hours of burning, 35 hours of colouring, and 20+ of prep and polishing.

These pieces inspired by the band sevendust