Sing a Song

[Nancy Bell]

Simple fractalius on a Western Meadowlark belting out his spring song.

[laurie golden]

Nancy, like the spider web look of your meadowlark. Wish I had Fractalius, it looks like it has lots of possibilities.

[Bob Miller]

Hi Nancy...beautiful job on this! How did you get the bg so clean? You might consider a texture.

[Jay Sheinfield]

Nancy, classic pose! Great head angle, the framing is great. The bold frac processing works nice in contrast to the smooth monotone BG. Love the touch of yellow. Optionally I think you could go tighter on the framing, off the top and left, but it looks great as is. Nicely done.

[Brendan Dozier]

Nice singing capture and fract treatment, Nancy. Like the splash of yellow coloring, has pleasing illustrated look to it.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Nancy, I like the illustrated look also. Perfect amount of fractalius and I love how clean he looks against the background. I could see a touch off the top.

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Nancy, simply beautiful fract work. I love the way the fract turned out on this one. I am going to go the other way and suggest a little more room on the left, but that's just me

[Nancy Bell]

Thanks everyone! Funny that several of you mentioned different sorts of cropping as I played with the crop also and due to indecision I just stayed with my first crop. I like all of your suggestions and think they all would work. See...I still can't make up my mind ! The bkgd is au natural with a bit of noise reduction. It is short grass prairie that is still dry and brown from lack of rain.

[John Storjohann]

Nancy, I'm late to the party, but I have to echo so many of the comments made; beautiful illustrative effect by your application of Fractalius...great pose, strong composition...+1 for taking a bit off the top. Nicely done!

[denise ippolito]

Nancy, I like the composition, the filtering, the pose and the details. Nice job!!

[Maureen Allen]

Great fract work, Nancy. Don't you just love listening to Meadowlarks?

[Nancy Bell]

Yes, Maureen I do. However Western Meadowlarks have a somewhat different song from Eastern Meadowlarks! And thank you, Denise & John.

[Anita Bower]

Lovely!! This looks like an ink drawing with color. Excellent! I like the simplicity. I might crop a bit off the top. The bg seems to have a lighter band across the top--wonder if that occurred in posting. I like the soft, muted bg color.