Hieronymus Bosch Creatures + Cracked Paint Style

If you want to make detailed hybrid creatures, OR create any works with an aged cracked painting quality, this is the model for you!

While at high strengths you can achieve exact creatures from the famous painting, at lower strengths you can blend all sorts of other styles and subject matter into your art. There are other models of Bosch, but none (I believe) are as focused on the non-human creatures from The Garden of Earthly Delights, and I have not achieved as detailed "cracked paint texture" in those models as I have with this model. Also, since the painting and imagery is already famous, and is a part of the base SDXL model, you don't need my model to create creepy, strange, or hybrid creatures -- but if you actually want to situate your SD images into a conversation with Bosch, the medium of painting, or the themes of time, decay, and impermanence, then this LoRA is a MUST.

This model was trained on 60 images from the Heaven and Purgatory panels from Hieronymus Bosch's famous work The Garden of Earthly Delights. This LORA is designed to capture many of the creatures of the painting, in the artist's unique style. Because the images used to train the model were of a high resolution of the current state of the artwork, the unique detail of old oil paint cracking is baked into the model.

I've only tested this on the SDXL base model. It worked very well when I paired it with LoRAs of celebrities -- although I opted to only share celebrities that the base checkpoint knew well on its own.

I did not get to tagging imagery from the Hell panel. It gets very complicated on that side and I decided perhaps a more uniform LoRA made sense. Perhaps a version of Hell is next. I made 40 cropped images of hell but did not have time to tag them before I had to start training.

Being a new model for me, and my first public model, please let me know what you make! I'd appreciate any feedback. I opted to post the 10th epoch, but got a lot of cool results with earlier epochs. I figured the most trained version could convey the most baked imagery from the dataset, but be watered down to mix well with other LoRAs. Is this model working for you?

Below are tags from the dataset, grouped into some categories, in case you want an easy way to come up with ideas:

CREATURES

dog

porcupine

weasel

lion

deer

black birds

wolf

rabbit

birds

egret

crane bird

owl

bird

bird

reptiles

turtle

lizard

frog

amphibians

fish

snake

bear

black bird

bird

giraffe

dragon

bug

centipede

critter

unicorn

goats

antelope

horse

wild boards

pigs

warthog

monkey

elephant

tusks

cat

bobcat

reptile

frog

platypus

fish with wings

dolphin fish

seal

bird with tail in air

narwhal

horse with fish body

swimming horse

bird with fish body

bird with teeth

crow

angel with bird wings

tuna

salamander person

monster boy

merman

human with fish body

bug with antlers

fish-like creature

wingless bird

mermaid

fish tail

yellow hair

monster girl

pegasus

human body with fish tail

flying fish

mermen

frog with no arms

rodent

shell creature

goat

horses

moth

bird humans

egrets

cat with horn

unicorn cat

wild pig

pig

cat

CREATURE PARTS

orange legs

feather

feathers

goat horns

bump shell

beaded shell

shell with orbs

many legs

many heads

two-legged

three-headed

floppy ears

tail

long tail

narrow beaks

bulbous hairy tail

pouty eyes

fur

human foot

spikes

hooves

wings

claws

whiskers

too few legs

pupil

black eyes

black pupils

horned creature

human hand

horns

spots

spotted creature

dotted

gray mane

strong chest

gray tail

pointy ears

hard shell

antennae

antlers

curly tail

spiky fur

teeth

scales

gray skin

elephant hooves

beak

curved tail

beady eyes

paws

spotted back

detailed wings

strange beak

mane

long beak

pointy beak

spotted feathers

peacock tail

bird plume

ornate plume

human-like animal

bulbous body

open beak

white eye

long beak

centipede legs

gray shell

turtle shell

breasts

many legs

white wings

bird beak

red claws

glinting shell

horn

unicorn horn

open beaks

spiky hair

horse tail

ACTIONS

feeding

hiding

horseback riding

reclining

under shell

balancing

doing handstand

huddled together

holding branches

arms outstretched

impaled

skewered

sitting

riding

perched on back

wings spread

lying

on stomach

huddled

spread wings

crawling

dangling

crawling out of hole

reading

being attacked

fighting

from above

from behind

from side

standing upright

on two legs

head turned to side

perched in a hole

looking down

in flight

climbing tree

hug

on ground

eating

flying

prancing

sitting

perched

mouth hold

something in mouth

in mouth

holding book

climbing

climbing out of water

upright

holding

arms up

perch

reaching up

holding own tail

upside down

handstands

mouths open

ADJECTIVES

transluscent

frail

spotted

yellow eyes

spiky

bumpy

bulbous

alert

creepy

ornate

detailed

nude

barefoot

short hair

black hair

brown hair

black skin

long hair

blonde hair

closed eyes

NATURE

hill

tree

yellow tree

petals

outdoors

leaf

plant

scenery

green hill

bushes

blue trees

yellow ground

white trees

yellow theme

water

beach

tall grass

trees

watering hole

flowers

cave

tree

trunk

pond

ripples

rocks

dark water

pond bank

embankment

large fruit

spotted fruit

vines

food

fruit

palm tree

grass

apples

large berries

rock feature

nature

sandstone

grassy knoll

cherry

flower

treetops

blue mountains

white sky

green trees

spiky rose

flower bud

giant strawberry

strawberry

food focus

still life

round fruit

circular strawberry

branches

branch

white and blue sky

treetop

plant

thistle

bushes

triangular trunk

dead tree

SUBJECTS/FOCUS

looking at viewer

food focus

still life

human

angel

humans

crowd

multiple humans

6+boys

animal

animal focus

humans

no humans

humans

many humans

ground animal

solo

oversized animal

head focus

full body

mother creature

baby creatures

profile

silhouette

close up

human arms

1other

creature wearing clothes

knight

male focus

one creature on top of another

1girl

1boy

multiple women

3girls

nude women

multiple creatures

DETAILS

shadow

dark water

dark interior

simple background

paint detail

brush strokes

black interior

reflection

dark background

skewed perspective

surreal

wide shot

perspective

blue theme

yellow theme

green theme

THINGS

projectile vomit

black interior

holding book

hood

book

open book

reflection

weapon

lance

skewer

ball

orb

structure

chair

orbs