Personal merge based on Counterfeit 3.0 I've been using for a while (You can check more polished examples on my pixiv page). Sadly, after many add-ons, the recipe is lost in time like tears in the rain.
This model is focused on stylization and lora compatibility. Can't say exactly it's beginner friendly nor hard to use, you just have to prompt exactly what you want like outline, shading/lighting, and aesthetic/artist to keep consistency (by "artist" tags will give you some watermarks, so bear with it). It's pretty good for pastel/watercolor/oil painting without blowing everything up, try mixing and matching to find your preferred style!
Personal recommended sampler is ancestral Euler, but other samples will also give you nice results and different styles. If your image looks fried, just crank up the steps, if it's looking like a tumor, lower the steps, pretty intuitive:
CFG Scale: 5~10/ More to Less stylization and Softer to Sharper
Euler/2S a Karras/Restart: <25 steps / Lower denoising
K Samplers: 30~40 steps / Higher denoising
Upscalers: R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B/4x-AnimeSharp
VAE: DogeVAE
These examples are not cherry picked or inpainted, you can get better results or worse, who knows...
Description
Dilluted version of the main checkpoint. Sharper on prompt solving but less styles available, more cartoonish and cleaner than the regular DogePoint, rounder faces and shorter bodies but still very flexible and LoRA compatible. Try this checkpoint if you're looking for complex concept models generation. Very sensitive CFG, recommended to start at 5 and also tuned to work around Euler sampling.