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Request:. Alice kissing

I’m sorry, but I can’t do this. I tried and this is the best result by far, but it’s just not working.
There are several reasons.

Kissing is a damn complicated pose.
Two faces this close, angled, it would be difficult enough anyway but trying to get a likeness to a certain person when half of the face is covered by another person?

It made me realize my Alice is only recognizable because I can do the make-up (hidden here), finally start to get a hang of the nose (hidden and I couldn't find a reference pic at a useable angle anyway) and mouth/teeth/smile (hidden).
No matter what I tried it could be anybody kissing - or more precisely being kissed.

Which bring me to my next point: I usually draw from reference pictures. I have tons of pics to look at mouth / eyes / certain expressions from smiling to growling but let me tell you absolutely no material for kissing. Licking yes, but not a single romantic kiss, at best a peck on the cheek. If any of you have material, speak up!

Anyway, it made me realize the following things:
The only kissing that ever happens with Alice (the character) involved is either kissing himself or the unresponsive dead (sometimes both in one). He just doesn't kiss romantically.
It seems from the material out there it's not just ALice the character, even the creator is shy to kiss his own wife in public in more than an affectionate way.
A surprising realization about somebody who can suggest the most naughty scenarios, let me tell you!

So I had to find somebody else to initiate a kiss and take him by surprise since him kissing didn't work at all for me. Believe it or not I usually think a bit about a picture and especially the story I want the pose to tell before I sit down and start to sketch.

Since the request didn't specify anything but 'kissing a girl' and I was already OOC enough I decided to take a girl that at least has some business with Alice. I had done Ethyl and Black Widow already, that left Rozetta.

I like her, though she has changed a lot. When I heard the song the first time my impression was that she was just a regular girl doing her job and was blamed for the illicit thoughts she caused in a man. He was not supposed to feel that way, it could not be his fault so he said it was the girl’s doing.

Of course with the latest version that interpretation of Rozetta has been changed by Alice himself, she's a real vixen driving a man up the wall and she knows it. In the first version Alice was the one who was doing something wrong by lusting after her, in the newer one, he's at the mercy of a seductress.

Am I the only one who has realized that this has happened a lot?
Another example is "Dead babies".
Older version: he was wrong, killing something pure and innocent which was shocking and made him the bad guy
Today: the baby has turned into a monster, often even attacking him and he's killing in self-defence. But it has lost some of the shock-value that way.

Wow, a lot of talk for a picture I couldn't do.

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Request:. Alice kissing

I’m sorry, but I can’t do this. I tried and this is the best result by far, but it’s just not working.
There are several reasons.

Kissing is a damn complicated pose.
Two faces this close, angled, it would be difficult enough anyway but trying to get a likeness to a certain person when half of the face is covered by another person?

It made me realize my Alice is only recognizable because I can do the make-up (hidden here), finally start to get a hang of the nose (hidden and I couldn't find a reference pic at a useable angle anyway) and mouth/teeth/smile (hidden).
No matter what I tried it could be anybody kissing - or more precisely being kissed.

Which bring me to my next point: I usually draw from reference pictures. I have tons of pics to look at mouth / eyes / certain expressions from smiling to growling but let me tell you absolutely no material for kissing. Licking yes, but not a single romantic kiss, at best a peck on the cheek. If any of you have material, speak up!

Anyway, it made me realize the following things:
The only kissing that ever happens with Alice (the character) involved is either kissing himself or the unresponsive dead (sometimes both in one). He just doesn't kiss romantically.
It seems from the material out there it's not just ALice the character, even the creator is shy to kiss his own wife in public in more than an affectionate way.
A surprising realization about somebody who can suggest the most naughty scenarios, let me tell you!

So I had to find somebody else to initiate a kiss and take him by surprise since him kissing didn't work at all for me. Believe it or not I usually think a bit about a picture and especially the story I want the pose to tell before I sit down and start to sketch.

Since the request didn't specify anything but 'kissing a girl' and I was already OOC enough I decided to take a girl that at least has some business with Alice. I had done Ethyl and Black Widow already, that left Rozetta.

I like her, though she has changed a lot. When I heard the song the first time my impression was that she was just a regular girl doing her job and was blamed for the illicit thoughts she caused in a man. He was not supposed to feel that way, it could not be his fault so he said it was the girl’s doing.

Of course with the latest version that interpretation of Rozetta has been changed by Alice himself, she's a real vixen driving a man up the wall and she knows it. In the first version Alice was the one who was doing something wrong by lusting after her, in the newer one, he's at the mercy of a seductress.

Am I the only one who has realized that this has happened a lot?
Another example is "Dead babies".
Older version: he was wrong, killing something pure and innocent which was shocking and made him the bad guy
Today: the baby has turned into a monster, often even attacking him and he's killing in self-defence. But it has lost some of the shock-value that way.

Wow, a lot of talk for a picture I couldn't do.