2DN-Illust
2DN-Illust v1.0
Introducing 2DN Illustrious.
This model uses IllustriousXL/NoobAI as a base. It was fine-tuned using 65,000 high quality photos for 12 epochs, two of which were preconditioning. Note that I specifically avoided training on cosplay photos and selected a very diverse dataset (LAION etc). It was further refined with custom LORAs (such as my cfg scale LoRA).
For those of you coming from Pony there are some important things to note:
Your Pony LoRAs won't work. This is not as big of an issue as you might imagine. Illustrious/Noob has more than 100x the concepts and tags available for use than Pony. Including obscure tags you can only find on Danbooru. It also has tens of thousands of artist and characters tags if you want to make anime images or mix them into the realism style.
You don't need to use the pony score tags. They will only interfere with the images.
REALISTIC MODE
I recommend the following base prompt:
highly detailed, realistic, fine fabric detail, absurdres, highly-detailed, best quality, masterpiece, very aesthetic, <your prompt>
For the negative prompt you should almost always use:
lowres, worst quality, low quality, bad anatomy, bad hands, multiple views, abstract, signature, furry, anthro, bkub, 2koma, 4koma, comic, manga, sketch, ixy,
Inserting artist tags of creators who make highly non-realistic artworks such as ixy and bkub improves the quality of the outputs.
Using artist names in the positive prompt will make the model produce anime style images. For a 2.5D look reduce the weight of the artist tags to 0.5 for example.
Facial expression tags will result in exaggerated results. Lower the weight of these tags also to control their effect when generating realistic images.
Lower CFG scale settings will produce less saturated images with lower contrast.
You can control the temperature/colour cast of the images by specifying for example „warm light” in the positive prompt and „blue, blue light” in the negative prompt.
If the model produces „babyface” during the ADetailer stage, set ADetailer positive prompt to an anime artist name such as „quasarcake”.
ANIME MODE
Simply prompt as you would any illustrious model, including artist tags.
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Highres-fix or upscaling is highly recommended (0.3 denoising strength works well). ADetailer is essential for non close-ups of subjects.
Recommended CFG scale is 6.5. Adjust to taste.