I really like the design, hope I can help with some tips:
- If you leave a black border around the edge, it'll be easier to roll in the raised parts without rolling in the low parts too.
- - Kinda like this http://www.myriadofmagpies.com/uplo.....-deerskull.jpg
- The print is still a little light, are you using water-based printing ink or acrylic paints? Those dry pretty quickly, which can be an advantage, but you need to work pretty quickly. There's also a medium you can add to oil paints to make it dry quicker and use that to print; it will need longer to dry but you can work more leisurely and there's more texture to boot.
- You can always try printing it with a car! You just need to put your cut/paper between 2 firm MDF boards and then just drive over it; lots of pressure!

I've seen people print huge cuts with a steamroller, but I'm gonna guess you don't have one available.

Good luck! :3

As some who has been at events where we printed with steam rollers, those a super amazingly fun and dirty, and it's fun trying to apply ink on a block with a mop. :P

Oh man, I wanna do that someday.

It is seriously like one of the best, most fun things. :D

We used these inks at my class, and I loved them (Just haven't been able to pick up any since I have an insane amount of ink already. >O<) http://www.danielsmith.com/Item--i-G-284-250 Oil based, does take awhile to dry, but good if you are feeling slower at it. Or you can do the acrylic+retarder+cornstarch, it's just depends on a preference of inks at that point. And yes baren. I feel like I had more to say but I have forgot it. ;0;

these look great! *_*

Looks much better. Now the frill makes all sorts of sense. That is how you should display it, on its side. It "reads" so much better. I am quite impressed with how much detail you did. That isn't an easy thing to achieve with that material.

What sort of tools are you using? For my curiosity. I could never get that kind of detail with the sorts of tools I have used for carving that sort of material.

One tiny suggestion that might or might not improve the image (but would be a neat technique to try in any case). Take a something that you can print with that is the size of your printing block/plate (in highschool the standard was to use the back of the piece of linoleum) and ink it a good background color, let the solid color print dry (this is super important) and then ink up your image printing block with a darker color (or black), line it up so it matches the border of the solid color print and then do whatever it is you do to print it (I used a specialty printing smoothing tool but so many things work to print linoleum block prints). So you have an image of your print with a background color.

Sorry I keep throwing out suggestions, I was a printing fiend for about a year in high school, and won a couple of awards for my troubles, so I feel that it is proper to share all the strange things I have tried and learned...since my teacher would let me do just about anything that wouldn't risk breaking her professional grade printing press. Plexi-glass dry point etching, solar plate etching, multicolored images using a single printing, things like that. (I got super spoiled having that thing around, I stopped doing printing art after I graduated but I might get back into carving plates out of tiles, at least, but I will be hard pressed to find some way to print them)