Heres some of my works.

[moondoodles]

This is excellent work! I'm impressed with the polished look of your art. I particularly like the pistol design with the wood grain texture and those tiny nicks and scratches--very convincing as a real gun! How did you manage such realistic details? And those modernized versions of WW2 rifles is also superb.

I'm going to strive for this level of professionalism from now on! Now I'm motivated! I'll get something uploaded by tonight.

Thank you. As to how to get your work to a certain level of polish/finish, its just practise practise practise. That wood bit on the gun is a texture overlay then i painted over it to get it looking right with teh rest of the gun. the rest is all hand painted using defualt brushes in PS. just about starting simple and keep layering on detail. Always good to have ref close to hand when doing high detail images like that too.