Here’s my second attempt at an Illustrious merge. This time, I wanted to see how merging LoRA and LoCon models into the checkpoint would work. I think the results turned out pretty good. It responds well to the artist tags I’ve tried, but I haven’t tested all of them.

Let me know if there are any artist/style tags you’d like to use that don’t work as well as others! I’m happy to fine-tune this checkpoint after more testing and hearing your feedback.

I value your feedback, both positive and constructive. I’d really appreciate it if you could be as honest as possible.

Personally I’ve been experimenting with CFG++ samplers. I like going Euler A CFG++ with a scale of 0.5 to 0.7 and around 35 steps.

With non-CFG++ samplers, I’d run a scale of 3.5 to 7 and between 20 and 50 steps.

Prompt the same way as other Illustrious models;

(subject, {1boy/1girl/2boys/2girls/etc.}, artist/style).

Describe image with natural language. {A portrait of ...}.

(tags, quality tags).

This is technically an EPS model, but the results are practically identical with and without EPS sampling so it's not needed.