Painting n°5: Jennifer Love Hewitt

I started watching Ghost Whisperer last summer, because it was the only interesting TV show airing on saturday and found myself recording it when I wasn't home. Now I really like the show, and thought I should try to paint Jennifer Love Hewitt. There's a lot of interesting photos of her on the Internet:


I wanted to do a simple background painted with ink, and not acrylic. I didn't like how it came out, so I changed most of it, using black ink all over and left only a grey circle around Jennifer's head. I guess I should have kept it for a Twilight painting lol


I started painting her hair, I used a lot of different shades of brown, because that's how her hair looks like on the show. I then tried to do the skin, but it was pretty hard. Her eyes didn't look like the actress' eyes, so I reworked on them.

I painted more eyelashes and dark eyeshadow, and added also another shade of skin & with the same color added some light on her hair. Finally I worked on the dress, which was pretty hard, cause I decided to keep it white. I spent from 15 to 20 hours on this painting, it was one of the more difficult to do.
You can see it full view on deviantart:


Watch the "Speed Painting" video here.