I've been trying to transition from SD1.5 to SDXL for a while, but old prompting habits die hard.
Even more difficult was finding a model to produce the look I prefer. Most seem to love realism, 3D pixar style, anime, and super airbrushed.
If you have any tips for SDXL models, loras, prompting for this style, etc. please let me know!
parameters:
1girl, demon woman with bangs and ram horns and wings, holding bloody human heart, solo, sitting with knees up, (full body:0.6), looking at viewer, (dark fantasy theme:1.1) (glowing eyes:1.05), thick lines, flat shading
I don't know if it's what you want, but: using the same prompt terms, and grabbing my favorite in a batch of 20:
1girl, demon woman with bangs and ram horns and wings, holding bloody human heart, solo, sitting with knees up, (full body:0.6), looking at viewer, (dark fantasy theme:1.1) (glowing eyes:1.05), thick lines, flat shading
That's actually a good example of the overly airbrushed look I was trying to describe. So many models have output like that.
As for GrogMixTURBO, I found the keywords "thick lines, flat shading" from one of the creator's replies to a comment on the model page, and these magically gave me what I wanted with that model.
If you can avoid the turbo/lightning models, they're not as good as regular XL.
Likewise with XL the less negative prompts the better, I usually operate on none or only 'text,watermark'
As for style, LORA or prompting an artists name is your best bet.
If you're after anime/cartoon, Ponydiffuser is the best. It operates on booru tags, so it can't imagine much outside of that range but the flipside is it can create basically anything within those confines. Pony also has an extremely wide range of artist/style LORA to recreate any sort of look you're after.
For realism you've got a few options of models, none are stand-out better than the other top rated ones.
I usually go with the full models, but for some reason GrogMix only has turbo and can nail the look I'm after.
I keep seeing positive sentiments about Pony everywhere I look, so I'll keep trying with that one. Right now, I'm having trouble with any character that isn't very close. Anything slight back from super closeup portrait loses a ton of detail, even with hires fix and multiple rounds of upscaling.
Check out the important information section on Pony Diffusion V6 XL's page. It says: "Make sure you load this model with clip skip 2 (or -2 in some software), otherwise you will be getting low quality blobs.". Find some images you like and work off of their prompts to learn to make your own,
Thanks for the reply, but yeah, I've definitely tried that. In ComfyUI for this model, setting it to -2 doesn't actually do anything compared to no node for that at all. Setting it to -1 of course ruins it though.
It seems really temperamental with the styles. It seems to vastly change just by changing a few words that aren't related to style at all.
This is the best I've gotten with it after hours if fiddling. Most of the image is good, but the face and hands never are.