# Scowlpunk | Krea 2
Sulking gothic girls in a thick, scratchy painted finish. The grounds are muted dark red, slate blue-grey or murky green, and the faces have large heavy-lidded eyes with dark shadows beneath them, clear red, yellow or blue irises, and a look that says you've interrupted something. Red and black stripes, crossed arms, black bobs, cats and cat ears turn up all through the training set.
Trigger word: sr3f0n3
## How to use it
Start every prompt with sr3f0n3, . The captions share an opening, an eye sentence, a background sentence and a closing line, and keeping those four in place holds most of the style:
1. Opener: "This is a digital painting in a dark, gothic style."
2. The character: who she is, her age, hair, and one feature of the brows, nose or mouth
3. Eyes and expression: "Her eyes are large and heavy-lidded, with red irises, small dark pupils and faint dark shadows beneath them, and she has a slightly annoyed or indifferent expression."
4. Pose, clothes, and one prop or companion
5. Background: "The background is a textured, dark red gradient." Blue-gray and dark green also work.
6. Closer: "The overall color palette is dominated by black, red, and pale blue. The texture of the painting is rough, with visible brushstrokes adding to the dark and moody atmosphere."
Template:
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sr3f0n3, This is a digital painting in a dark, gothic style. The central figure is [ROLE], a young woman in her early twenties, an adult with a long neck and narrow shoulders, with pale skin, [HAIR] and [ONE FEATURE]. Her eyes are large and heavy-lidded, with [red / yellow / pale blue] irises, small dark pupils and faint dark shadows beneath them, and she has [EXPRESSION]. [POSE.] [CLOTHES.] [SETTING or companion.] The background is a textured, [dark red / blue-gray / dark green] gradient. The overall color palette is dominated by black, red, and pale blue. The texture of the painting is rough, with visible brushstrokes adding to the dark and moody atmosphere.
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Example:
```
sr3f0n3, This is a digital painting in a dark, gothic style. The central figure is a young violin student with pale skin, a blunt black bob with a heavy fringe, and a small black plaster across the bridge of her nose. Her eyes are large and heavy-lidded, with red irises, small dark pupils and faint dark shadows beneath them, and she has a slightly annoyed or indifferent expression. She slouches on a wooden piano stool with her violin held upside down across her knees like a guitar. She wears a red and black striped jumper with sleeves pulled over her hands and a short black pinafore skirt. Beside her, a sheet music stand holds a page covered in angry red pencil marks. The background is a textured, blue-gray gradient. The overall color palette is dominated by black, red, and pale blue. The texture of the painting is rough, with visible brushstrokes adding to the dark and moody atmosphere.
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## Expressions
The default is "slightly annoyed or indifferent", and you get it even if you don't ask. For a wider range, describe what the face is doing in the same sentence as the eyes:
- Fury: "her brows pulled hard together and her mouth pressed into a flat line"
- Contempt: "one brow raised high and her dark red mouth pulled down at one corner"
- Smugness: "her eyes narrowed and one corner of her mouth curled up in a small closed smile"
- A pout: "one cheek puffed out and her lower lip pushed out"
- A glare: "glaring back at the viewer over her bare shoulder with her chin tucked down"
Keep the face facing the viewer or at three-quarters. In profile you lose the heavy-lidded eyes, and they carry most of the scowl.
## Settings
Krea 2 Turbo: weight 1.1, 8 steps, guidance 1. If faces slide toward the training girls, drop to 1.0. If the scratchy finish comes out weak, go up to 1.3.
Krea 2 Raw: start at 0.8 to 1.0.
Portrait 896 × 1344, landscape 1344 × 896.
## Tips
- This LoRA was trained hard on a small set, so it copies content readily. Expect black bobs, stripes and cats unless you describe something else.
- Cat ears show up in about half the renders. Krea ignores negative prompts at low guidance, so put something on her head instead: a hat, a ribbon, a crown, or a tight bun. If ears still poke through, try another seed rather than adding more headwear.
- Write "a young woman in her early twenties, an adult" into every character. The big eyes and small frames can otherwise make her read younger.
- Give each face one feature in the brows, nose or mouth, such as a widow's peak, a hooked nose or a full lower lip. Avoid marks on the skin like soot or freckles, which tend to come out as blotches.
- Leave out photo words like "photograph", "realistic" or lens terms. They fight the painted finish.
- Scenes with no character in them get a weaker effect, since every training image has a figure in it. If you want a room or a landscape, put a figure in it.
## Training
17 images with Civitai's auto-captions, trained on Krea 2 Raw with Civitai's trainer for 2,000 steps, about 118 passes per image.