When you travel a lot, be sure to collect every magical and non-magical
stuff you can... because you never know when an epic Boss Battle might
approach - per example if you enter an abandoned kingdom...
This is my touched up image version from this one [link] - and now our hero is holding a sword he collected during his adventures.
Tried myself in more texturing and conceptart-techniques - this Illustration shows one of my places of my own project.
Tools: Wacom Intuos3 A3 + PS CS5.1
My reference for the architecture was [link] from Aquarior.