Disclaimer: I'm a hobbyist and relatively new so this workflow is nothing fancy, just some basic functions that I wish I had when I first started to help someone new get going with their first gens that won't totally suck.

This workflow is for Illustrious Checkpoints and other Illustrious variants. I have included some basic notes embedded to help someone get started. You can tweak the values to what you like, I included those that can help someone get started with relative ease and little fuss.

I tend to lean on Illustrious Realism when I'm testing out things I want to resemble photorealistic. In those cases switch the sampler to DPMPP_2M and the scheduler to karras. I love Illustrij when I want something that blends real with animated. Lately I've also been having fun with New Mecha which adds some gothic and dark flair really well (I included some samples of New Mecha from a recent batch of images in the showcase for this workflow).

I'm not an expert at anything so I'll try to answer questions honestly and faithfully but be prepared for the real possibility that "I don't know".

Enjoy and have fun!

~Maris