There's nothing to give the black sheep any sense of "lord" or "overlord," or leader. He just looks really unhappy about being in the forest with the white sheep.

If you want him as the "ringleader," you'll need more than just a cigarette. Maybe a crown, maybe a gangster suit with a flower in the lapel, maybe have him on a dais with the other sheep beneath him looking at him.

Just changing the background is not conveying your concept, you need to put a little more adjustment into it to visually establish the "pecking order" of the group.

Really nice painting skills! The problem that I see is that the original source has such a shallow depth of field. So the background of your painting is more in focus with a higher depth of field. You might be able to fix this with a gradient lens blur for the background, but I couldn't be sure without seeing it. Good luck!

I like the way you changed the expressions on the sheeps faces. The black sheep didn't look mad to me until MossyB pointed it out. He just looks really serious to me. And the white sheep seem a bit intimidated, which i guess is the point. Really nice painted background, too! I like it. GL

gorgeous background! really gives that oil painted feel! good luck author!

Great mood, great BG, great SBS.

Thank you, my friends... I'll take some time AFTER my recent commercial works done to put my update here FAR BETTER than that one before. I'll take your consideration about the looks of the Black Sheep Lord as my primary objective, MossyB. And some gradient blur adjustments that pointed by Chalty669.

Thanks for your kind words, Alyssadanielle & Greymval. Your comments worth thousand flowers to me. Haha... sounds like a gay. But I'm NOT.

Good Luck to everyone! I'll make my piece of sheep better from time to time.

The background gives life to the source image. Fantastic! GL!

nice background! well done!

ba ba black sheep, have you any wool? nice idea for a children picture book

nice background compositing! like it =D

Great work and well done. I love the forest setting and The Black Sheep Lord has a very mean look!

Great approach, it's better to do a painting-like work in this case, very wise choice and nicely done. You must have nice skill of drawing with hard brush, so just participate more with drawing contests, looking forward to see you there

Thanks for viewing & voting. I don't have any time to change the picture, so please forgive my unaccomplished promises. Next time, I'll do the best for my entries as well.

@ arca; it doesn't seems like a Lord to others. But thanks for the comments, appreciated so much. (⌒˛⌒)

@ langstrum; I'm very glad that you like my kind of painting style. It's been a while that I make scenery scene. I'm doing the drawing contest as well with the traditional drawings. Most of my works play the role with digital painting, concept arts & a little of 3D matte-painting; so pardon my poor photoshop skills of combining stuffs like photo-manipulation. (⌒˛⌒)

Congrats, beautiful work

congrats!

I seen this coming . Good work! Congrats!

Thank you, dear friends & voters. Love you all. ╭(′ ▽`)╯

Congrats Hayato, I can predict your win easily, keep it up

Awesome and congrats

Really nice creation! Is it jumping or standing on one leg? If it's standing on one leg I would like to see a smaller shadow under the left leg. If it's jumping, never mind. Good luck!

actually he's floating LOL, thanks Chalty

Nice

Nice hair texture & colors.

The eyes and hair are stunning

Looks like his doing his happy dance. Great work and wonderful entry!

Congrats!

Congrats!

thanks! lordmail......

thanks! lordmail......

thanks! lordmail......

Love the hat, nice touch!
You need to adjust the lighting on the other sheep's faces. You have the ones in the sun shaded, and visa versa.

There are a couple areas for improvement on this one. I'm not sure what you used to cut out the sheep but it looks like they have an outer glow to them. I would suggest looking up masking with the pen tool. Also the depth of field is really shallow on the original source, so I would suggest using lens blur with a gradient channel to make your background match the DOF of the original source. Lastly if the sheep are in the grass, then some of the grass should be in front of them. Just use a mask on them and with a really small brush paint out some grass sticking up. Good luck!

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