My first LoRA!!!

Character LoRA for Mike Maius from the anime Wistoria: Wand and Sword.

Trigger word: mike_maius

LoRA strength: 0.7-0.9 (0.8 recommended)

Base model: WAI-Illustrious-SDXL v17 or compatible Illustrious models

Resolution: 832x1216 (portrait) or 1024x1344

CFG: 5-7 | Sampler: euler_ancestral | Steps: 20-30 | CLIP Skip: 2

Mike is the hyperactive tournament announcer of the Grand Magic Festival. His design features brown spiky upward hair, red-brown eyes, a fang tooth, athletic V-shaped build (broad shoulders tapering to a narrow waist), grey vest with buckle trim, and a wand with purple magic glow that he uses for public speaking.

He has an incredible range of anime expressions: confident smirk, comedic panic with blank white eyes, chevron squint laughing, star/symbol eyes, and dramatic shouting poses.

Example prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, mike_maius, 1boy, solo, brown_hair, spiky_hair, brown_eyes, athletic_build, broad_shoulders, narrow_waist, confident, smirk, fang, upper_body, dynamic_pose

Also try asking for low angle and high angle shots to see what you get!

Negative prompt:

bad quality, worst quality, worst detail, sketch, censor, blurry, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands

Trained with kohya_ss sd-scripts on WAI-Illustrious-SDXL v17. LoRA dim=32, alpha=16, 10 epochs, 67 curated images + 173 regularization images.

There's only a handful of clips of him available so getting diverse screencaps is tough. His look may not be completely accurate, but as I get better synthetic images of him I'll try another pass to see if we can solidify his look and behavior.