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Published: 2010-04-19 00:16:03 +0000 UTC; Views: 2252; Favourites: 24; Downloads: 0
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The dress, the hair band with the bow, and the socks are based of the original Alice designs by Tenniel (the guy that Lewis Carrol forced to draw for him through extreme begging).Even the colors are based off the original...yes ladies and gents...she was originally in a yellow dress.
In the first Alice in Wonderland...she didn't even have a hair band. It was in Through the Looking Glass that she had the hair band....and it was plain stockings in the first one while the Looking glass had striped stockings.
The only other color Alice's dress has been is in the year of Dodgson's (Carrol's) death there was a new printing of the Alice in Wonderland book and in that one she had a red dress in there.
The theme: well, who is Alice? The real Alice these books were dedicated to looked nothing like this Alice. Another Alice claimed the second book was based off her response, but Carroll still dedicated this to Alice Liddell. And he somewhat hinted that he asked his mirror question to several people. And the personality of Alice is definitely based off of Alice Liddell.
The Alice designed however does look like the little girl Mary that Dodgson suggested that Tenniel base his design off of....so who is Alice?
One Alice is going back and is the real one being left behind?
And as both Alice's were constantly asking, "Who am I?"
It's quite appropriate, because still to this day we don't know.
Done in Markers and Evil Gouache, then my friend took a picture of it, because we don't have a big enough scanner.
EDIT: this site ( [link] ) would have the best pictures of alice and her two sisters that I can show you....
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I <3 IT!!!!!! How'd u get the colors 2 b like that? I mean, did u use photoshop or colore pencils? It confuses me. that's good
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I used markers for the two Alices, then paint for everything else...NO Photoshop.
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O ok cool. U have talent
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I just finished reading a book called 'Alice I have Been' and its about the real life Alice Liddell and her life from 7 to 80 (when she died), and the struggles she went through coming to terms with Alice in Wonderland and her past histories.
This picture reminds me of Alice I have Been because everyone she met after the book was written and published, thought she was a little blonde girl in a pretty dress.
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Oh that one! I know some woman named Mary wrote that, but yeah now that I look at the cover of the book, it does seem to have the same sort of inspirations...That author and I were probably thinking along the same line.
Instead they all find out Alice is a girl with strait, dark, short hair in an extra pretty dress with long sleeves and the dress looks very light....yup yup. Although when she's older she does get much longer hair...still straight.
I might get this book and read it.
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I really liked it.
I cried during some parts. its a novel so alot of the events that happened are rumors and the like but its a pretty accrate telling 
I just like the fact that "omg these people were real and there was an Alice and what would they all think about the Alice in Wonderland of today?"
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What would they think?
I'm certain they would be more so shocked at the allegations of Dodgson f being a pedophile, then the Japanese obssesion with Alice, McGee's Alice, and people making her into some stupid child and some others even a slutty one.
Because the real Alice was really quite intelligent and boy, would she be thinking quite a lot of things.
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her relationship with Dodgson is the undertone of the whole book...its very subtle and is hidden in the words. Buuuut most of it is rumor (of course) like no one knows what really happened, apparently, so the events of those particular rumors in the book are basically made up, but are inspired by the rumors.
I agree with you about what they'd think though. Generations have turned it into something different.
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Yeah, her relationship with Dodgson is the biggest rumor in our modern culture, but during her time, it was her relationship with the Prince that gave the greatest rumor considering she named one of her sons after the Prince and the Prince named his daughter after her.... yeah that made the rumors even worse.
Being distantly related to the Queen, she definitely had to have a relationship with the prince...whether it's romantic or not....who knows.
That's why I'm going to do a picture of a very sexual Alice (older but still in the younger dress) with a prince going into the oo lala, but it's the man I'm going to emphasize, because everyone pairs her up with the hatter. The hatter (like almost everyone else in the alice books) was based off a person that Dodgson actually knew...more specifically a MUCH older man.
I'm making her pair the Prince.
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>.> well I pair her with Hatter but outside of the realm of reality LOL
When Curiosity Met Insanity
but yes her relationship with the prince is in the book and its actually very sad what happens.
I think the author of Alice I Have Been focused a lot of on the Dodgson rumors *shrugs* considering they haunt Alice until she dies. But like I said its all 'read between the lines' and half "made up" but culturally relevant
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I don't think that he was in love with Alice until she was old enough to look like a woman in which case she had plenty of suitors besides himself.
But yes...because of the Dodgson rumors, the family wouldn't let him visit anymore.
I still will never like the hatter...I just don't like it all that much.
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which Hatter? O.o cause there are many LOL
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all of them... I just can't like it, no matter how much I think about it.
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I was unaware about the yellow dress. Interesting, really everything you mentioned in your description. And beautiful artwork here.
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Thanks...it was very interesting when I was researching it all!
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That really is quite the issue you have brought up in your description.
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Too bad we don't know what Alice Liddell thought of it or if she really solved it, especially after her little sister died.
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This is really cool! It's so imaginative, and colorful, I wish I had your skills!
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thanks! It only requires practice!
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whaaaa so confused my brain hurts..... but nice picture. very nice indeed
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