#WomanCrushWednesday

There is a popular trend that goes around Instagram every week that's called Woman Crush Wednesday. This is where people post pictures of their "woman crush" (doesn't really have to be their real crush but just someone they admire, obviously) each week. Normally, I don't partake much in Instagram trends like this mostly because there really aren't any female celebrities that I admire...other than my one and only woman crush, Kat Dennings.

I know lots of people who have favorite female celebrities or singers that they admire or idolize but nobody has ever come to mind to me before until I saw a movie called Charlie Bartlett. Without going into too much detail of the movie, I'll just skip to the point: Kat Dennings is in it and I loved her character. It's not that she was overly fantastic in the movie; I just really admire her acting and her wit. Also, I think she's absolutely gorgeous. I've seen lots of other movies of hers but I absolutely love her in the T.V. show 2 Broke Girls. I've been watching that series since it came out a few years ago. She is phenomenal in the show and super funny! So for this week's drawing she is not only my #WomanCrushWednesday she is my inspiration.

Not going to lie--Kat Denning's lips are a lot of fun to draw/color in. She has huge lips! I particularly loved the drawing I chose to recreate because of her reddish orange lips. 

I like starting off with a light brown color for dark hair so I can use it as a guide, since it will be covered up later on with the darker colors. Kat has dark brown to black hair anyway but in the drawing I chose you can see little bits of light brown because of the light reflection.

It's really hard to tell that I colored in her skin because Kat has very porcelain skin anyway but it is colored! I lightly used a peach color and gave her some high light on her cheeks. 

It's more visible to see the coloring on her chest in this photo. Here is the final product! The black hair might stand out a bit more than I wanted it to but I was having trouble making the rest of hair almost as dark.

Overall I think the final product came out lovely. I hope that if Kat saw it her self she would like it! It doesn't entirely look like her but I'm sure I will be drawing her again in the near future to perfect it. This was a fun drawing this week. Surprisingly, I'm enjoin the portrait drawings more! Funny, huh? Hopefully next week I will have something other than portraits but we shall see!

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