Illustrious is the community tag for the Illustrious XL family of anime-focused base models — one of the two big pillars of anime AI art on Tensor.Art alongside Pony-style checkpoints. Illustrious models are trained to understand Danbooru-style tags natively, so prompts like "1girl, solo, long hair, reaching out toward the waves" produce clean, on-tag results without long natural-language descriptions. The ecosystem here is deep: thousands of LoRAs and merges for manga, comic and illustration styles, character LoRAs for anime and game properties, and aesthetic merges that tune color and line quality. Compared with Pony XL, Illustrious tends to produce crisper linework and more literal tag adherence, which is why manga and comic creators gravitate to it. Prompting tip: keep the tag list ordered from subject to style to quality, use parentheses sparingly for emphasis, and check each model page for its preferred resolution. The related MANGA, COMIC and ILLUSTRATION tags show what the family does best.

Example Prompts

• 1girl
• smiling
• reaching out toward the waves
• sparkling sea
• splashing water
• white sundress
• barefoot
• wind-blown hair

Related Tags

• MANGA
• COMIC
• ILLUSTRATION
• ANIME
• ORIGINAL CHARACTER
• CARTOON
• ILLUSTRATION ART
• AESTHETIC
• REALISTIC
• FEMALE CHARACTER
• CHARACTER DESIGN
• FLUX