ref: https://openclipart.org/detail/23566/scorpion

Experimenting with pattern blending applying to the ribbon technique.

Lyle, how interesting results with your current binge. Good!!!!!

Thanks Issabella. If it weren't for the multiple runs of Contours>Gradient Norm with various slide settings and also resizing followed by doing the same, I would do a tutorial, but it's the majority of these renders is nuance. Add texture patterning and blending with anisotrophic smoothing followed by more Contour>Gradient Norm, and, well, to much is too much. lololol

You're right Lyle, I started reading your manipulation of the image and I was already lost.
But continue experimenting and sharing your results with us.