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Mother Bunch

This is my character design for Mother Bunch, who has many old oral English folk tales attributed to her. But some (if not all) scholars doubt her actual existence. How appropriate is that for a fairytale author! She apparently is a repository of old (in some cases medieval) fairytales and other folklore. I am using her as a character in the illustrated story I am writing. I will probably do about 200 images of her face to curate a small collection to use to generate a Lora. Then I'll be able to generate her face from all angles and with all her expressions. Finally I will be able to inpaint her face in the clothes she might have worne in the early 17th century in England. (Ignore the clothes she is wearing now.) And in my story she will be found in her typical evironment. She owned an alehouse it is said. Perfect place because other characters can be found there, including a character selling chapbooks. I found a description of her in a collection of stories in an old reconstructed chapbook. attributed to her. The picture of her that I designed and generated shows her typical state of mind. She loved jests and one chapbook attributed to her is a collection of jests and little stories about life in 1604 in rural England. Fantastic find in my research!

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Uploaded on December 19, 2023