@KathrynAdebayo This looks closer for sure ...it may be that the texture of the carpet the child is on is receding to its own horizon line which is throwing it off a bit still to my eye - When I block out the carpet that the boy is on it seem to be working well - The legs look great!
@Laurel-Aylesworth I like this and the original too but his one gave me a thought of how to possibly tie it a bit closer to the prompt - from this perspective it would be easy'ish to make it an outside/inside shot - having the fellow with candle be on the porch outside where there could clearly be snow and through the open door we could see the painting and the footsteps going in. just an idea and feel free to ignore 
I'm looking forward to seeing where this ends up
@LauraA Thank you Laura! It is great to get your take on this - rendering the lighting definitely felt wrong and i felt i was ruining the style of the image with it just as you predicted! - I am going with bringing the fox and tree a bit closer to the viewer instead of pushing the rabbit back (he is so small already) and moving the tree a tiny bit to the right and the fox a tiny bit to the left - still a bit exposed but looking better...Thank you again for your kind words and feedback
@KathrynAdebayo This is looking really nice - i do like the new texture on the paper too. I could be wrong on this but i feel like the background does not match the perspective of the foreground - that the background is too high - i feel like the fireplace should actually tilt down and away from us to the right? I put a quick little box around the folded legs of the child to see if it helped me to see and i think it did - our point of view seems much lower for the child than the background - it feel like the point where the floor hits the wall should be just below the child's shoulder - i am not too sure of this but i though i would share it anyways
@chrisaakins Thank you Chris - i think you are right - To make the fox less exposed I'll have to add a bit more to the trees, put the rabbit farther back in the composition, or try to do it with lighting (maybe lighting is the best choice?) - i will work on this today - thanks again!
Finally got a good chunk of time to put into this - I feel like the composition is finally working? - thank you to everyone who gave feedback! A lot of work left to do especially on the Fox and Rabbit but i'm posting in case i've gone off the rails in some way that i'm not seeing with the composition - feedback is always very appreciated
@phoenix-yip This is a really nice drawing! I love the perspective! What pops into my head for critique is that maybe the tracks could be in less of a straight line...just a bit of a curve maybe? The other thing would be to make the locomotion of the tracks consistent ...but that could be part of what is making them different? Right now the tracks start as being parallel sets and transition into a stepping or walking pattern. That’s all I’ve got I really like your “trees”!!
My goal for the year is to make images that are just more fun or magical in some way and make them story driven. My favorite pieces on my portfolio site are the oldest ones...the ones that have a sense of story and magic...they are also everyone else's favorite pieces.....this is obviously not a good thing. I would like to have some major turnover on my portfolio site this year. So my goal is to make a few short series of two or three images that go together as a story, make them fun and use color. This seems doable - i'm already having fun starting it with this month's prompt
@Braden-Hallett 4 and 7 for me - voted for 4 though