Trained on a manually curated selection of old-school / dark / grotesque fantasy illustrations, this model will give your images a classic fantasy look, with weathered, gritty textures, and distinctive earthy tones.

Read me first for usage tips!

Trigger word

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Style boosters

Recommended

gritty texture, painterly, illustration style, muted tones

Optional

visible paper grain, visible brushstrokes, weathered, intricate linework, organic detailing, earthy color palette, muted moss greens, rust browns, deep sepia shadows, high contrast

Insert the style boosters as is, or better yet, request your favourite LLM to integrate them into the prompt.

Alternatively, describe photo-realistic images for more subtle, yet still very cool results!

Z-Image Base

• LoRa strength from 0.4 to 1.0. I like it best at 0.8.

• euler as sampler

• Low shift: 2-3

• CFG 7

• trigger word not needed, but style boosters still recommended.

Z-Image Turbo

• Use light LoRA weights! I personally prefer to set it between 0.4 and 0.6. Set it to 0.8 to full-blown grotesque fantasy with muted tones, and to 0.2 for just a light touch! A weight of 1.0 is discouraged, but you do you.

• When going for the intended painterly illustration style, use euler as sampler, it produces much prettier images. Increasing the shift might help too.

• If deformed monsters start to pop up all over your images, take your pills and/or lower the LoRA weight!

Flux

• High weights: 0.8 - 1.0.

• Try playing with the Flux Guidance to modulate the LoRA effect. If anatomy gets weird, lower the weight and/or increase the Flux Guidance value.

Illustrious

• trigger word optional

• LoRA weights: 0.7 - 0.9.

Please link your pics and tell me what you think!

Special thanks to @RalFinger for his amazing Lora Captioner and to @ostris for the fantastic AI-toolkit!

Take care and have fun ❤️

SGtW