🏚 Sovdark — Gloomy Soviet Photo (Krea 2)

The cold, grey, melancholic look of the late Soviet and post-Soviet world: crumbling khrushchyovkas, flooded basements, rusted playgrounds, communal kitchens and sodium-lit winter courtyards. Muted colors, heavy shadows, fog, film grain and quiet dread.

Trigger: sovdark (put it first)

Recommended settings

• Base: Krea 2 (trained on Krea 2 Base, works with Krea 2 Turbo)

• Turbo: 8 steps · CFG 1 · Euler / Simple

• LoRA weight: 0.8–1.0 (1.0 = full gloom, 0.7 = lighter touch)

• Resolution: 832×1216 / 1216×832

• Describe the scene plainly. The LoRA adds the palette, textures and atmosphere.

Great for

Urban decay · liminal spaces · creepypasta · gloomy everyday life · ironic propaganda contrast

Combine with

• Mr4k Sk4zka (0.5) for Slavic monsters in Soviet ruins

• Cheap Phone Photo (0.5) for a "found phone photo" vibe

Example prompts

1. sovdark, a tall thin faceless figure behind frozen laundry lines in a snowy courtyard of a crumbling panel block, night, single sodium streetlight, fog

2. sovdark, an elderly man alone at a kitchen table in a communal apartment, peeling wallpaper, enamel kettle, grey winter light

3. sovdark, empty tram at night in a snowy industrial district, smoking chimneys, lonely conductor, cold blue tones

Dataset: ~100 curated, hand-captioned photos of Soviet and post-Soviet gloom.

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