Hummingbirds, Colouring Experiment

Having done digital smudge for quite a while (see, for instance, my Rucksack of Life) I decided that I wanted to try some vastly different means of colouring. So here I used different kinds of lines.

I like the blend of cute (hummingbirds) and not cute (sipping and sapping the strength out of our poor fellow). I am also happy that we don't do this in any kind of realistic manner (not to mention photorealistic) as if reality had any kind of inherent appeal. One might as well try to be a little decorative instead. Let's look closer, almost by the pixel: