My First Woodcut -- My Version of a Durer Engraving as a Woodcut

This was my first woodcut print. To be perfectly accurate, I started this woodcut but then did another smaller woodcut before completing the Durer piece. So, maybe it’s my second woodcut. I had done a few linocuts before this so that helped a lot with the woodcut process. For my woodcut plate, I used Shina plywood, which is soft and cuts much like a linocut. I have done scratchboard illustration for over 40 years, and my scratchboard style looks a lot like an old woodcut. I use thick and thin parallel lines that follow the contour, which is very much the way the old-time woodcuts were made. I understand that some of you will be critical of me for more or less copying a Durer work, but this was a learning project for me. I thought it would push me to do my best if tried to imitate a Durer piece. I picked Durer because he is thought of as the ultimate engraver and woodcut artist. And I picked one of his engravings because there is no way to duplicate the linework of an engraving with woodcut. So, alth