This one’s built around Illustrious SDXL and tuned with a few hand-picked LoRAs for lighting and anatomy. It’s less stylized than my other Rusty Iron Peper merge. So don’t expect the huge hips, razor-sharp faces, or that heavy comic-book grit. This version leans cleaner and more natural: smoother lines, softer expressions, and better material lighting overall.

It hits that middle ground between realistic and illustrated — still has character, but it won’t over-bake the details. Think polished concept-art energy instead of over-rendered pin-ups. Skin looks warmer, metal and cloth actually have texture, and the overall tone fits fantasy, modern, or soft-erotic work really well.

If you liked the last one but wanted something easier to control for lighting, poses, and anatomy balance — this is that. Use detailers for the eyes and face if you’re going close-up, and try 1024+ for the best results.

🔧 Recommended Settings:

A well-rounded setup for general SDXL prompting.

Steps: 30

Sampler: euler_ancestral

Scheduler: karras

CFG (Guidance): 4

Some of the quality tags I use are:

🏷️ Recommended Quality Tags

anime_screencap, anime_coloring, (retro:0.45),

masterpiece, ultra-HD, cinematic lighting, depth of field, (blurred background), (dramatic lighting),masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic,8k,masterpiece, best quality, masterpiece, best quality, 8k,

Image-to-Image Tips

For upscaling workflows, I've found that a denoise range of 0.4 to 0.5 works best. This preserves structure while still enhancing detail without overbaking the image.

📋 ADetailer Settings

Here are the current ADetailer/YOLO settings shown:

steps: 10

cfg: 5.0

sampler_name: dpmpp_2m

scheduler: karras

denoise: 0.45

feather: 10

noise_mask: enabled

force_inpaint: disabled

bbox_threshold: 0.65

bbox_dilation: 1

bbox_crop_factor: 1.5

sam_detection_hint: mask-area

sam_dilation: 4

sam_threshold: 0.93

sam_bbox_expansion: 0

sam_mask_hint_threshold: 0.70

sam_mask_hint_use_negative: False

drop_size: 5

Maybe I have my settings wrong and if you know a fix let me know. I only pretend to know what I'm doing.

Copper Thyme - 1.0

Copper Thyme - 1.0

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