LoCon trained on @dumpiwumpi's artstyle for Illustrious models
General usage Notes:
For more specific issues check the "about this version" section of the specific model.
Thus far my most successful permanent positive/negative combo is:
masterpiece, best quality, good quality lowres, worst quality, low quality, oldest, artist name, signature, patreonThis likely changes depending on settings and merges, but I've not needed to modify them very much.
Strength depends on merge lora compatibility and what you're trying to do, generally:
Base Illustrious and compatible merges: ~1-.8
Poorly Compatible merges: <.6
When mixing in a style .8 or less strength is good, but this is to your discretion
I may also advise using .8 strength on upscale
General Workflow for Sample Images (on ComfyUI):
Sampler from images is done with Restarts with segments of [3,2,0.06,0.30], which are values from the paper on Restarts
Note: Using restarts tends to smooth out the image more but makes it more coherent, your mileage may vary and it's up to you if you want to use them
No special scheduler is used
Conditioning is split (A1111 BREAK) into 3 parts, generally BG and camera/Subject Face and attributes/Subject body and clothing
Initial resolution is selected from the SDXL whitepaper appendix I: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01952
Image is upscaled by 1.5x using Lanczos resampling
Second sample pass is the same, but at around 15 steps at .4 denoise
A facedetailer is used after the upscale