Artist Style LoRA – Marc Knelsen

Artist: Marc Knelsen
LoRA Type: Artist Style
Trigger Word: m4rckn3ls3n
Recommended Weight: 0.9–1.2 (ideal around 1.15)
Base Model: Illustrious v1.1

Overview

This LoRA is designed to capture the signature artistic look of Marc Knelsen—a style defined by textured analog grit, warm cinematic tones, and subtle film-grain imperfections.

Training Information

• Steps / Epochs: 2363 steps across 29 epochs

• Clip Skip: 2

• Dataset Size: 30

• Optimizer: Prodigy / Cosine

Training was performed on Illustrious v1.1, so models within the Illustrious ecosystem pair most accurately with this LoRA.

Recommended Generation Settings

To get results that match the intended style:

• Sampler: Euler_a

• Steps: 30

• CFG: 4.5

Positive Prompt Suggestions

These optional tags help guide the aesthetic:

2d, cel shaded

Negative Prompt Suggestions

lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, malformed hands, extra fingers, fused fingers, missing fingers, extra limbs, deformed, disfigured, multiple views, text, watermark, signature, username, copyright, error, jpeg artifacts, old, oldest, jaggy lines, latex, shiny skin, guro

Compatibility

This LoRA works well with the following checkpoint:

• WAI (Current Version): https://civarchive.com/models/827184/wai-illustrious-sdxl

Support the Artist

Please consider following or supporting Marc Knelsen.
This LoRA was created to help their style reach new audiences across the AI art community.
Respect the original artist and credit them whenever appropriate.

Have a question or suggestion?

I can usually be reached on Discord at: piper260