I present my attempt at a Illustrious character LoRA for Ardbert Hylfyst from FFXIV.

V4 is my fourth attempt and to fix his face because I didn't like how his face shape and facial hair looked on V3 the more I looked at it. It definitely looks better but you may need to add beard to negative prompt because it occasionally likes to give him more facial hair than I trained for him to have. Also, If you leave out goatee tag and add facial hair to negative prompt and he'll have a smooth face since I decided to tag his facial hair (unlike V3).

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7 with about CFG 3-4.
  
  Also, I use an adetailer in my generations for this LoRA.

The tags for V4 are as follows:

main tags

ardbertffxiv, 1boy, hyur, very short hair, goatee

note:

outfit tags

fur-trimmed collar, fur-trimmed pauldrons, armor, fur-trimmed gloves, tassets, fur-trimmed boots

optional tag:

axe

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-4 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V3 is my third attempt and to refine the quality in addition to reducing the training tag count a bit.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7 with about CFG 3-4.
  
  Also, I use an adetailer in my generations for this LoRA.

The tags for V3 are as follows:

main tags

ardbertffxiv, 1boy, hyur

outfit tags

fur-trimmed collar, fur-trimmed pauldrons, armor, fur-trimmed gloves, tassets, fur-trimmed boots

optional tag:

axe

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-4 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V2 is my second attempt and to try refining the training so the results look a bit cleaner. I did see an improvement with my test generations, especially NSFW.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7 for SFW / 0.6 for NSFW with about CFG 3-5.

The tags for V2 are as follows:

main tags

ardbert_ffxiv, 1boy, mature male, short hair, brown hair, blue eyes, goatee

outfit tags

fur-trimmed collar, fur-trimmed pauldrons, armor, fur-trimmed gloves, tassets, fur-trimmed boots

optional tag:

axe

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-5 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).

V1 is my initial attempt and produces rather nice results.

LoRA strength recommendations

• Use LoRA strength 0.7 with about CFG 3-5.

The tags for V1 are as follows:

main tags

ardbert_ffxiv, 1boy, mature male, short hair, brown hair, blue eyes, goatee

outfit tags

fur-trimmed collar, fur-trimmed pauldrons, armor, fur-trimmed gloves, tassets, fur-trimmed boots

optional tag:

axe

The settings I used for my generation testing were 3-5 CFG, 20 steps, DPM++ 2M SDE - Karras on Forge with an adetailer (specifically face_yolov8s).