First attempt at gouache

my first attempt at painting with gouache paints. I'm not sold on them just yet, but I can see potential. I'm not really happy with this (her face especially... she just don't like like the girl in the photo I was looking at) but I'll keep at it. Especially since I bought the paints. That would be silly to buy paints and then only use them once.

Haven't decided what I'm going to paint today though.

I'm embarrassed to link to this, because it'll prove just how unsuccessful my attempt at painting this photo was, but I feel I should give credit where it's due. Based on this amazing photo by BenoitPaille: [link]