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Something about this image was striking to me. I did what I sometimes do to pencils that I like and intend to keep a copy of: I cleaned it up and tweaked some things. I hope you don't mind!
What I did was fiddle with the brightness curves and levels to remove all the background noise (to have a pure white background), as well as to make the lines a bit darker and sharper. Then I cropped off the excess (including much of the legs since I didn't like them much) I then went over the image with a paintbrush and erased all errant marks (smudges, dust on scanner/paper, other blemishes). Next, I fiddled with the lines in the left arm a bit to try to make it look the proper size. Then I tweaked the lines in her legs to make them seem more appropriate to her upper body. And lastly, I moved her nose and mouth around to look more natural.
Here is the result (shrunk down to 50% size):
I'm not really happy with the legs, and the arm didn't turn out quite like I wanted, but the face came out great. I think that this is a good base for somebody to ink it or colour it. I'm not an artist (I can't even draw stick figures correctly), so the best colouring jobs I can do are flat-shaded, and I can only do uniform-thickness inking that I don't have the patience for 😉
It gave me a nice opportunity to try out my new mouse (which I bought this afternoon), a Logitech V200 cordless optical notebook mouse.
EDIT: It occures to me that I forgot to tweak her hand (the upper one). Oh well.
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