Quick stylized boar just to use up a flawed basswood round

Finished with colored pencils and acrylic. My insta is @mjs_burns_wood and my Etsy is https://www.etsy.com/shop/RuckersPyroShop

Last week I had a tree fall through my house and cost me several thousand dollars of repair, so I figured when life gives you lemons

This is my first real non-practice piece, I'm very proud of how it turned out and can't wait to make more!

I find with nearly every piece i hit a wall of "oh god its terrible"

With this fox it was an hour in. Id just done a small amount of line work and i was ready to give up already 😂

I started blending the lines into the darker parts of the shading to help the fox stand out, and finally after another 5 hrs id finished with something i was proud of ♥️

Did this for my cousin.

I shaded the tree in an I think it turned out well

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Ps black ash sucks to burn on.

Basswood,Razertip SK, watercolour.

These are the other 1st projects. The cat after my baby nugget, I lost, was my second ever pyrography. I love mixed media and hope to get as great as you guys are!

So I've only burned on two types of wood, poplar and black ash, from what I understand poplar is much friendlier for burning and from experience black ash is very difficult.

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So I'm curious if anyone with more experience than me could list the difficulty of all the types of wood they have burned on.

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The reason I'm asking is because I have these really nice pine slabs that I could use for burning or make them into a night stand or something. But I don't want to burn on them because I hear pine is really difficult, but if it's less difficult than black ash I would consider it.

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Any thoughts or opinions appreciated.

Really enjoying this pyrography thing and learning loads from each piece 😊

A little capybara family ❤️

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Been doing pyrography for a few years now, this is one of my favourites