Model Name:

To your health MEME, Art by Louis Raemaekers Illustration Style [Illustrious-XL]

Description:

"Even death has a taste for the vintage."

This LoRA is designed to replicate Art by Louis Raemaekers - To your health! 1916 with high-contrast retro dark art style.

Key Aesthetic Features:

Stippling & Hatching: Distinctive "dotted" shading that gives it a vintage print look.

High Contrast: Deep blacks, stark whites, and vivid, saturated red accents.

Gritty Texture: A sketchy, grunge feel perfect for dark fantasy or horror-themed projects.

Usage Tips:

Trigger Word: skel_drinker

Base Model: Illustrious-XL (Works exceptionally well with plantMilk or other Illustrious-based anime/stylized models).

Recommended Strength: 0.7 - 0.8 for best flexibility.

CFG Scale: 5.0 - 7.0

Resolution: Trained at 1024x1024,.

Important Note on the Hood:

The model is heavily trained on a black robe. If you find the hood is always "up" on the skull, try adding hood down or hood on shoulders to the positive prompt and hood up to the negative prompt.

Recommended Prompts:

Positive Prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, skel_drinker, solo, 1boy, skeleton, skull, drinking from wine glass, red liquid, blood spilling, black robe, stippling, monochrome with red, retro illustration style, dark atmosphere

Negative Prompt:

multiple boys, 2boys, duplicate, extra subjects, lowres, bad anatomy, text, error, cropped, worst quality, low quality, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, blurry

Training Details:

Dataset: 6 hand-picked, high-quality custom illustrations.

Architecture: SDXL / Illustrious

Training intensity: 167 Epochs (1,000 steps).

Optimizer: Adafactor

Precision: FP16

CivitAI TOS & Disclaimer:

This model features stylized skeletal/undead characters. All humanoid representations are intended to be 18+ consenting adults. Please use this tool responsibly and respect the artist's aesthetic intent.

Tags:

skeleton, dark art, retro, illustration, stippling, macabre, horror, illustrious, sdxl

Author's Note:

This is my first experiment with stippling-style LoRAs for Illustrious-XL, so you might get multiple skeletons in one frame and strings of vine.

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