Maybe add some “shingles” to the wood. Use this plugin, Stravant - GapFill & Extrude - Roblox To fill in the gaps so it looks less blocky at the bottom!
Very cool design. If you want to design a bucket you can search up negating + unioning tutorials. Some people may suggest things like blender but parts are also capable of making very practical designs like buckets. Here’s a simple step by step I made. First, take a simple Cylinder and size it to however you want. Add the metal material and a grayish color scheme. Then you can take another pillar, and size it to the hole formation you want to make. Then negate it. To negate simply right click on the part and select Negate. What you are looking at should look similar to this:
Then what you next want to do is Shift + Click on both of them, right click, and select Union. Your outcome should be this:
Negates and unions can come in handy when making small little designs like above, so make sure you understand it before just copying what I did. Negates will delete the space the negated part is taking up.
Really nice for one of your first builds! Keep up the work!