As always in my quest to create extremely realistic models, I finally made my XL model, which was an old debt to many of you.
After someone asked me about my last Illustrious model if it wasn't a base XL model, I decided to make a comparison between those two types of models, but I think the best way to do it was to create my own XL model, which is something that many had asked me to do, but I hadn't been able to do. Little by little, during the development of it, I realized the enormous capabilities that I had left aside by concentrating on my Pony and Illustrious models, but at the same time, I think it gave me time to develop my own style that I was able to capture in this model.
What this model is good at is that it is very good as a general model for all types of generations, especially artistic and detailed ones. It is good at following the prompt and is excellent for detailed portraits.
For distant images I recommend using Adetailer if you don't use Hires.fix
These are the recommended parameters:
The VAE is not baked, use SDXL_vae
Upscaler: Im using 4x-ClearRealityV1 upscale by 1.5 Steps 15 denois 0.35 Hires CFG 4,
Width and height: 896*1152
CFG Scale: 5
Steps: 35
The sampling method i use is DPM++2M-Karras
You may see many images that are a bit dark in the examples, but this doesn't mean that it's a trend in the model, but rather that I personally prefer dark images that don't have excellent definition.
I hope you can share as many images as possible, as this is the only way to continue improving my work.