Pretty cool.

I really like her pose. The way she's sitting as she pulls on her socks/boots looks pretty visually interesting. I like the way her toes are bent to show that her leg is stretching a little to aid in putting it on. The way her back is curved and the other leg is bent help to communicate how her momentum is leaning forward a bit so she can reach forward far enough.

I really, really like her outfit. I like the scarf, and how it is draping down nicely. I like butterfly designs on it, and how they are repeated on the big sleeve, which also has a nice sense of drapery to it. I like how there's the ruffle-y texture at the edges of the skirt and the shirt.

But what I like maybe most about the outfit is how it looks like it fits naturally. The folds on the lower part of the back show that the fabric is reacting to being pulled on the top half, where there aren't any folds. The skirt is being pulled a little at the bent knee, to show it's reacting to what position her body is in there, too. I like how you paid attention and put thought into how the outfit would fit and conform to her body given the pose she's in.

Plus, I just think the outfit looks good. The uses of red in it really pop against the mostly neutral colors of the pic as a whole.

I like how the hair looks. I like how it conveys a natural look and feel and flow of hair with an economic use of lines. By just showing a few strands here and there bouncing away from the mass of the hair, you fully communicate the way the hair moves. I think the red outline around the whole figure works well, but I think it works best in the hair to really draw attention to how the hair moves.

The face looks kinda eerie. The lexpression is a blank, and the eyes really have an eerie feel to them that is at the same time kinda cold and empty, and strong and piercing. It's interesting how the face and expression contrasts to the boldness of her outfit.

You mentioned how the red spots in the background were meant to look fiery. Yeah, I think when I saw the thumb of this in your gallery, I got the impression of red flower petals falling in the wind, and looking at the full-size version and seeing the blood-splattery textures here and there, I don't really get "fiery." Not being fiery doesn't really make the overall composition of the pic stop working; those other two textures work and feel appropriate to the pic. But I understand that they don't quite convey what you were intending to communicate.

I think if something doesn't work as much, it's the foot of the bent leg. Since you rely on the shapes and lines of the figure to define the volume of the body underneath the clothes, which looks really great overall, the foot gets lost behind the sleeve it hides behind. I know that it's there, but it doesn't FEEL like it's all there. Another thing that makes it seem odd might be that the foot on the ground seems longer than the one on the bent leg, so it might be that I'm expecting more of the foot to come out from behind the leg.

But overall I think this is a really well done drawing. I like the pose and your handle of her figure. I love the outfit and how you paid attention to how it fits and conforms and reacts to how her body is posed. I like the bold use of red and black, and how it contrasts with the more subdued, neutral skintone to stand out and to set a strong mood.

Great job. : )