Yeah, I'm wondering too how you pictured her before this. Yeah, the head is nice, and the eyes are cute (hairbow adds nice effect) but then I look down to the neck and below and begin to question, which way is she facing? One could say she has her back to us, but the way the hair is, and where the neck meets the shoulders seems like she's facing us. I'm not sure how much help the arm is, since I only see one, and though it's the left arm, I still think she has her front facing us whenever I go back to the neck or hair. It seems like some sort of amalgamation of direction here.
Maybe if you touched this up in a sort of second version, you could fix the points I noted, and work on the background too.
All in all, it's still good art, so I'll give it a 3/5 all.