lucyXL — Dark Witch Character LoRA for Illustrious XL

Lucy is a striking dark fantasy witch original character LoRA trained on prefectIllustriousXL v8. She has a bold, immediately recognisable look that holds across a wide range of scenes and compositions — from clean studio shots to atmospheric dark fantasy environments. Whether she's casting spells, posing dramatically, or standing quietly, her face, hair and eyes stay locked in.

Character Features

• Long wavy white/silver hair with subtle teal undertones

• Teal eyes with strong iris detail and vibrant limbal ring

• Fair, soft skin with light natural complexion

• Slender, tall build with elegant proportions

• Default look: dark teal and black witch outfit with flowing cape and wide-brim witch hat

Trigger Word lucyXL

Recommended Base Model prefectIllustrious XL v8 (trained on) — works best on Illustrious XL and its derivatives

Recommended Settings

• Resolution: 1152×1536 (portrait) or 1024×1024

• CFG: 4.5–6

• Sampler: DPM++ 2M Karras

• Steps: 20–25

• Clip Skip: 2

• LoRA strength: 0.8–1.0 (sweet spot is 0.9)

Example Prompt

lucyXL, masterpiece, best quality, perfect quality, ultra-detailed, absurdres, 1girl, solo, long wavy white hair, teal eyes, vibrant iris, detailed iris, strong limbal ring, fair skin, soft complexion, detailed face, detailed eyes, witch outfit, dark fantasy, [lighting here], looking at viewer, [composition here]

Signature Look

lucyXL, masterpiece, best quality, perfect quality, ultra-detailed, absurdres, 1girl, solo, long wavy white hair, teal eyes, slender build, slim figure, light skin, soft complexion, detailed face, detailed eyes, witch outfit, dark fantasy, studio lighting, soft box, looking at viewer, smiling, full body, dynamic pose, simple white background

Negative Prompt

lowres, (bad), bad anatomy, bad hands, extra digits, multiple views, fewer digits, extra limbs, missing limbs, text, error, worst quality, jpeg artifacts, low quality, watermark, unfinished, displeasing, oldest, early, chromatic aberration, signature, artistic error, username, scan, armour, accessories, jewelry, earrings, weapons, multiple girls, child, loli, aged down, deformed, disfigured, blurry, out of focus, glossy skin, plastic skin, shiny skin, heavy makeup, overdone makeup, clown makeup, thick eyeliner, dark lipstick, two heads, two faces, multiple faces, mutated hands, poorly drawn hands, poorly drawn face, mutation, deformed, ugly, bad proportions, extra limbs, fused fingers, too many fingers, long neck, floating limbs

Tips

• Staff/weapons appearing — the model can spontaneously generate staffs and wands. Add staff, wand, scepter, weapon, held object to your negative if you want clean hands

• Pedestal or platform — add pedestal, platform, base, stand to your negative for grounded full body shots

• Teal bleeding into background — if the cape colour bleeds into the scene, use (simple white background:1.4) and add teal background, coloured background to your negative

• Eyes drifting blue — if eyes lose their teal vibrancy, add (teal eyes:1.3) to your prompt

• FaceDetailer recommended — use face_yolov8m.pt at denoise 0.35 for best face detail on full body shots

• Clip Skip 2 is important — using 1 may reduce identity consistency

• Works best on Illustrious XL derivatives — other base models may give inconsistent results

Known Quirks

• The cape and hat are strongly baked in — prompting them away requires strong negative weighting

• Emergent accessories (glowing orbs, magical effects) appear naturally from the dark fantasy aesthetic — prompt against them if you want a cleaner render

• Best results at strength 0.85–0.95 — below 0.7 identity weakens, above 1.1 costume details start to degrade

Training Details

• Base model: prefectIllustrious XL v8

• LoRA checkpoint: step 5000

• Network dim / Alpha: (add your settings here)

• Resolution: 1152×1536