checkworths crit is valid, but only if the one without leaves is a final version as well. it seemed to me you just used it to help you when you did the leaves.
yeah, that was the idea at first, but then I just decided to keep the leafless tree for whatever reason.
Also, maybe I am wrong about this because I have never studied trees at all, but I always thought the trunk grows more or less vertically up to the top of the tree, eventually narrowing to the size of a branch but not just stopping. On your tree, the stump kind of stops, and then all the branches branch out like flower petals. I guess it's just a really quick transition from thick to thin, and I am not sure if trees work that way.
from what I've seen of leafless trees, the stump never grows straight to the top, but rather splits up into a few main branches somewhere around the halfway point. That's basically what I was going for with my tree, but I can see how it looks a little strange; I'll try fixing it up.