Overall

Vision Vision

Originality Originality

Technique Technique

Impact Impact

I like this.  I can imagine how Ruby had to plan this before executing it, and Weiss' expression... It looks like this image is showing the moment just before Weiss has entirely realized what has happened.  It's part of a story where the next scene will be really adorable and fluffy and it does a good job of making me excited for that. All of the textures are very well-done and the colors are appropriately Christmasy while also conveying the warmth that meshes well with the romantic vision.  The hanging ornaments do a lot to convey movement and gravity without being distracting. However, while I absolutely love the intent, vision, and detail work that went into this, it feels incomplete, and it has similar problems to your other works.  The most obvious issue being depth.  When you have overlapping objects or limbs they have a problem where they blend together and make the image seem flat.  Weiss' skirt and the tree are almost one object unless I concentrate on it.  I didn't realize that Ruby was grabbing Weiss's face until I forced myself to follow the lines of her shoulder up and around (I thought her hands were earmuffs because Ruby's fingers blend into Weiss' face and hair).  While the tree looks nice, its lighting is confusing and the structure is strange.  It's difficult to tell at first glance or even multiple glances exactly how far away certain portions are, and the strings of lights don't appear to light up the tree consistently. A secondary issue that might be related is that their legs look a bit too thin in the wrong places.  Ruby's left leg looks almost broken.  I'm unsure if the delicate thinness of their ankles is for style's sake or in error, but it just doesn't look right. When I said incomplete, I mean that this scene is missing its background.  I don't think it's supposed to be white.  And if it is, then it shouldn't be.  Given the particle effects over the bark and the way ornaments and parts of the tree fade the further back they are, it seems like this was supposed to be a snowy scene, outdoors.  The way that most of the lighting seems to come from the string of lights suggests that it's also a dark scene.  Perhaps it's at night.  I find myself disappointed, since so much could be done with it, from some sort of framing depth-creating scenery to a simple darkness with swirling snow flying through the air to make everything glow and pop out, and instead it's just blank. Overall I'd say that it's a good thought, and it is obvious that effort and passion went into it, but it has some technical and composition issues that are incredibly distracting.