Notes: Style works with or without trigger, but is stronger with it. Watercolor/cartoon/painterly tags are optional as well. If you want more toony negate 'photo, realistic, anime'.
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:
Recommended Weight:
0.1to1 Decrease your weight if you find your image is noisy, often you will find .5-.7 a good range but some models will give you more noise and you will need to bring your weight down to .5 or possibly lower.Trigger words : wk-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)
🎠 Wonderkind: A Guide for Creators
Where innocence meets the infinite, and every sparkle holds a secret.
Wonderkind is a vibrant fairytale-pop aesthetic that blends magical charm, childlike whimsy, and surreal dream logic into a sugar-sweet visual language. It celebrates the strange purity of wonder—equal parts adorable and uncanny—wrapped in the pastel brightness of a child’s imagination and the mischief of something otherworldly wearing a smile.
This is a world where every bell rings with possibility, and every star could be watching.
🌈 Key Features of the Wonderkind Style:
✅ Pastel Cel-Shading & Punchy Highlights
Visuals are defined by crisp, high-contrast cel-shading with glowing, candy-colored palettes—bright pinks, soft blues, lavender, and sunshine yellow. Highlights gleam like plastic or sugar-glaze, giving characters a polished, toy-like finish.
✅ Magic-Infused Kawaii
Characters often wear oversized bows, bells, and iconography such as moons, stars, hearts, crowns, or keys. Cat ears, fangs, and chibi features are common, especially when paired with magical girl or prince/princess attire. The aesthetic draws heavily from childhood fantasy archetypes.
✅ Ambiguous Age & Mischievous Innocence
Wonderkind characters blur the line between child, doll, and magical entity. They are wide-eyed, expressive, and full of emotion—but their sweetness can feel strange, theatrical, or uncanny, especially when smiles are too perfect or eyes too bright.
✅ Saturated Symbolism
Accessories like heart-shaped bags, animal ear headbands, sailor collars, and bell chokers are symbolic and emotionally loud. Their repetition creates a visual language that suggests cuteness with undertones of identity and power.
✅ Stylized Fantasy Logic
Environments are dreamlike or implied—magical libraries, night skies, enchanted cafés. Elements like floating sparkles, framed moons, and surreal props (like oversized keys or magical cards) give each piece a pop-fairytale logic.
✅ Theatrical Composition
Poses are playful or exaggerated: finger hearts, peace signs, tongue-out smirks. Framing feels performative, like selfies or character introductions. Everything is lit for impact, often with rim lights, sparkles, or a radiant magical glow.
🌟 Best Uses for the Wonderkind Style:
📱 VTuber & Character Avatars
Wonderkind thrives in personality-driven digital spaces. Perfect for idols, mascots, or digital influencers who balance sweet aesthetics with expressive emotion.
🧁 Stickers, Stream Assets, & Merch
The bold outlines and iconographic accessories translate flawlessly to small formats: emotes, charms, enamel pins, and apparel.
🎮 Visual Novel or Gacha Game Art
With its emphasis on vibrant emotion and magical attire, Wonderkind is ideal for character-driven, fantasy-adjacent game settings, especially ones that play with themes of identity and perception.
🎠 Magical Girl Worldbuilding
Wonderkind excels in alternate universes where magic is fashion and emotion is weaponized. A single character’s outfit can suggest their role in a celestial fairytale—or a cursed carnival.
A world of whispers painted soft in pastels,
Where clouds are cotton, drifting weightless, free.
The sun, a gentle coin with golden glow,
Spills light like cream across the endless sea.
A fox reclines on hills of lilac grass,
Its tail a brushstroke tracing open skies.
Nearby, a teapot perches on a stump,
Its steam a spiral drifting as it flies.
The trees wear sweaters, knitted loose with care,
Their roots like veins that hold the earth in place.
The rivers gleam, a ribbon cast in pearl,
Their flow a melody of time and grace.
Each home is humble, windows full of light,
With doors that open wide to field and stream.
The paths meander, soft and undefined,
As if to say: Your journey shapes the dream.
The air hums low with tales of quiet days,
Of hands that craft, of laughter soft and clear.
No rush, no race, just moments pure and still,
A simple life where beauty lingers near.
So rest, and let this world enfold your soul,
A realm of ease where thoughts grow bright and wide.
For wonder is a state, a gentle pull,
That beckons all who choose to step inside.