This looks pretty good already!! I have tried making art using wire from the hardware and ahh I find it hard and also because I lose my patience pretty easily hahaha. Those scale-like look pretty neat and I could tell you have been doing this for a long time!

This is what I did back in 2014 haha, I only did it for art school and I have no plans on using wire as a medium again. I sprayed it with bronze spray paint.
Meh, I remember getting scratches from the wires!