Not sure how this is "Rising From the Ashes."

>>MLPmatthewl419
The ashes of a disaster in one’s relationship, perhaps? It is a bit tenuous. If Vinyl had burnt the cello, there’d be more of a connection.

Artist, I’ve seen the “Sorry Octy I [BLEEP]ed your cello” before, so I can’t give top scores for originality, but the pony figures and cello are rendered competently and expressively, if a bit roughly. (Is that wall made of rubber?)

I will call this an upper-mid tier effort. It’s cute but the lack of polish will tend to push it down on my slate.

This is... pen? Huh, neat.

I didn't actually realize that was Scratch until I read GGA's comment. I think the glasses not being pulled down (or maybe not obviously glasses enough?) was messing with me.

I kinda feel like that corner that Octavia's coming around is throwing me off. This isn't in a white vacuum, but it's also not with a full background; but I can't tell why that wall is there or what it's supposed to be doing for the image.

Nice work on the shapes of the ponies and the cello.

I liked it, the visual expressions are very neat and I'm a deep fan of anything related to OctaScratch.
As GGA said, the 'Vinyl breaks Tavi's cello' isn't really original but the execution is great.

Bottom top-tier.

Interesting. Already done a plenty times before, but still interesting if done right as a writer. The visuals aren't really breathtaking, but but they don't leave much to be desired as well. It does it's job as it should. Pretty nice.

The art is pretty good, though Scratch's head seems a bit off to me. As others have said, this really isn't a very original idea, and the connection to the prompt seems a bit tenuous. And it doesn't help that I got tired of OctaScratch years ago.

Really great. Octavia and Vinyl's expressions are both really well done, and I love the way you've drawn Vinyl's mane and tail—a shock of hair, for sure.

I like the facial expressions, they do a good job of communicating the emotional context of the situation. I'm in a similar boat as Not_A_Hat when it comes to the edge/wall (?), though. You might have meant to imply that they bumped into each other at that corner, but IMO, that would mean 2 ponies in a heap with a broken cello, not one pony looking down on the broken cello and the pony that bumped into it. It is as though the cello was walking in front of Octavia.

@caption_rates
This caption was out shopping when the accident took place. It's still not back because it's making sure the cashier correctly doubles its 50-cents-off coupons. Good job keeping the cashiers honest! 8/10