The eyes, shoulder/neck line and the cheeks don't exactly line up. I used to trace and make adjustments for characters I had thought up in my head. I'd just change the eyes and hair. If it were me and I were to trace, I'd have also traced the hand.

Some people can just look at something and be able to draw an almost exact copy of it. I watched a guy at the fair do it. He did have a huge list of artists he was inspired by. But people were so impressed by his being able to draw a very close resemblance without actually tracing, they were putting in requests for a dollar.

Honestly though, I'm more a fan of her coloring. It's soft. I like soft.

Not to say her style following the artist she admires is bad, though.

On topic, though. Here's a very bad attempt at drawing my main character. Needless to say, I didn't trace for this one.