Beetroot Rose - Design 2b

Back story can be found here [link]

More on the second Beetroot design!! [link]

Apologies for the shitty quality of the pictures but its the work I'm showing off not my photography skills. Detailed pictures are in my scraps and other pictures in my gallery. Feed back and critique wanted please!!

edit: the entire carving series is not recent work, but the photos are evidence of my progress over a number of weeks and months - as much as I'd like to say it, I did not learn this over night

Whittling: [link]

p.s thanks to Sgt. Lanson for his input