Left it to render for almost half a day and when I remembered to check it....

...as you see I lost control of it lol
...it is still rendering by the way.... I set a max of 25K lines, at the snap shot it was at roughly 18K ...

this wasn't expected at all

I gotta admit I got scared a little bit when I first saw it...

Original photo by @ricpicks at https://steemit.com/sailing/@ricpicks/birds-ii

I modified the original one a little bit thinking it would help in the contrast areas...

maybe I should have left it as is...

this is all new to me...I am used to render 3D models, not 2D... fun time ;)