Notes: Please be advised I recommend using the prefix I have in the previews, also the painterly and digital painting tags enhance the look of this lora: (best quality, good quality, newest, recent, messy_linework, thick_outlines, flat_colors, black_outline, drop_shadow, shadows, anime_coloring, painterly, digital_painting_\(artwork\))
Check out these websites for tags used in Illustrious and Pony (keep in mind they are NSFW but you can change the settings as necessary): https://e621.net/ (furry) https://danbooru.donmai.us/ https://gelbooru.com/
Please click on the preview images to check out my recommended prompting style. The prompts contain keywords which you will use for this lora. In this case: (best quality, good quality, newest, recent, messy_linework, thick_outlines, flat_colors, black_outline, drop_shadow, shadows, anime_coloring, painterly, digital_painting_\(artwork\))
CRVT-Illu, dark_theme, black_theme, 1girl, pink hair, solo, purple eyes, animal ears, pink background, fox ears, fox shadow puppet, long hair, breasts, looking at viewer, wide sleeves, japanese clothes, cherry blossoms, detached sleeves, jewelry, hair between eyes, branch, bangs, nontraditional miko, twitter username, earrings, smile, sideboob, hair ornament, vision (genshin impact), long sleeves)
Recommended Weight:
0.1to1Trigger words : CRVT-Illu
Preferred Sampler: Euler Ancestral Normal: 35 to 40 steps.
Sampler: Euler A (ancestral) : 25 to 40 steps.
CFG Scale: 3.5 to 7.
Clip Skip: 2.
FLAT ANIME STYLE: flat_colors, anime_coloring
3D STYLE: render, realistic (negatives: cartoon, anime)
REALISTIC: Realistic, photo_(medium) (negative: cartoon, anime) Negate 3D if you want it to be less shiny as well.
🎴 Cravat: High-Contrast Painterly Drama — A Guide for Creators
Cravat is where moody elegance meets high-octane color theory. It’s a dramatic, stylized painting approach with glossy blacks, sharp highlights, and character designs that smolder on the page. Imagine fashion illustrations dipped in cyberpunk noir, or anime portraits that fell into a vat of neon ink and came out with secrets to tell.
This style doesn't sketch — it carves.
🎨 Key Features of the Cravat Style:
✅ Painterly Rendering with Strong Silhouettes
The style uses large, confident brushstrokes and controlled blocks of shadow. Details are often implied with color shifts rather than linework — it feels hand-painted, but digitally slick.
✅ Glossy Black Shadow Mapping
Think pools of pitch black with razor-sharp edges. This shadow work defines form more than line does, adding weight and intensity. It's theatrical, almost like celluloid dipped in oil.
✅ Vibrant Rim Lighting
Neon rims and duotone glows give characters dramatic presence. Hot pinks, teals, reds, and purples dominate rim lights, especially around hair, metal, and facial structure. It’s backlit beauty with sci-fi spice.
✅ Sparkle & Texture Accents
Cravat adds sparkle details — tiny stars, hair glints, shine streaks — that make the image feel glossy, otherworldly, and crisp. Think glam, but battle-worn.
✅ Expressive Hands & Faces
Eyes gleam, mouths curve just-so, and hands are often showcased in graceful, powerful gestures. The pose matters — elegance is power here.
✅ Fashion-Forward & Futuristic Details
Characters wear sleek outfits, sharp cuts, leather, and layered textures. Armor, tattoos, jewelry, and modern-fantasy blends are common. It all feels like a high-fashion magazine from a cyberpunk universe.
✅ Graphic Framing & Composition
Cravat makes deliberate use of framing elements — halos, backdrops, interface UI shapes, floral circles — to elevate characters. Every image looks like a cover piece.
🧨 Best Uses for the Cravat Style:
🧨 Cyberpunk & Gothic Fantasy
Perfect for sleek vampires, bounty hunters, cyber-samurai, or anything with neon cities, mystic daggers, or ink-black magic.
🎴 Poster-Ready Portraits & OC Showcases
When you want to show off a character in a heroic, tragic, or magnetic light. They don’t need a scene — they are the moment.
🔥 Fashion-Combat Fusion Art
Armored dresses, cloaks with circuitry, gloves that cut and shine. Cravat thrives when beauty is edged with danger.
🎬 Storybook Covers & Visual Novels
If your project needs a visual that screams high stakes, bittersweet tension, or high-concept intrigue — Cravat’s your closer.