first gouache painting

hi :)

this is my first painting using gouache. i love disney but surprisingly this is my first disney based/inspired painting. i have never used gouache before but have seen so many people use it before so i wanted to try it out. i love how you can make it look like both watercolour and acrylics so you can see a mix of that in the painting. the reference photo i used doesn't have much shading on ariel herself, but i tried to add some anyways. i was never that good with shading so it may look a little bit weird in some places. you might have also noticed that there is a droop in the bottom right corner, the washi tape i used on the edges wasn't straight and sadly i noticed too late 😂

I also made the dumb mistake of tracing the outlines too early, so some lines that were in the reference photo may be missing, and you may see some pencil lines.

reference photo:

painting:

up close:

this painting turned out wayyyyy better than i expected it to so im really proud of how to turned out.