Green herons

a manipulated image..

Hi Pat,
Like what you've done. You have texture in much of the white..........but then you get hard edges. I recommend softening the edges on them......and then cropping some of the white expanse........and it will work,
Roman

Very nice pencil drawing look, Pat. Do you mind sharing roughly how you did it?

Roman and Fabs thank you for your feedback... I did this in September. the shot was in the shade of a dried up stream that had funny water color and it was backlit.. but my first green heron.. I cut and flipped and pasted the second heron in the shot , then used the channel mixer and added some brightness thinking of high key.. then maybe india ink .. that is about all I can remember.. maybe I used something else ... I see using illustrater.... from xero free software might have got me there... I used layers too..