# 🎨 DALL-E 3 Aesthetic / Painterly Semi-Realism [Illustrious-XL]
Bring that iconic, luminous DALL-E 3 digital concept art aesthetic to your Illustrious-XL generations!
Trained on a curated dataset of high-fidelity painterly illustrations, this LoRA transforms flat 2D anime cel-shading into rich, volumetric, semi-realistic art—complete with glowing rim lighting, soft subsurface skin tones, fine hair strands, and delicate brush textures while eliminating harsh black ink outlines.
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### ✨ What It Does:
- 🌟 Volumetric & Rim Lighting: Beautiful golden-hour backlighting, lens blooms, and warm ambient light falloff.
- 🖌️ Soft Painterly Brushwork: Replaces hard cartoon cel-shading with smooth, rich color gradients.
- 💫 Zero Flat Outlines: Softens heavy vector ink lines into natural painted edges.
- 🎭 Fully Compatible with Character LoRAs: Stack it with your favorite anime or manhwa characters without losing their signature face or hair design.
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### ⚙️ Recommended Generation Settings
| Setting | Value |
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| Trigger Word | dlle_paint |
| LoRA Weight | 0.75 - 0.85 (Portrait / Half-body) <br> 0.65 - 0.75 (Full-body / Complex scenery) |
| Base Model | Illustrious-XL v0.1 / JANKU / NoobAI XL |
| Sampler | Euler a or DPM++ 2M Karras |
| Steps | 26 – 30 |
| CFG Scale | 4.0 – 4.5 ⚠️ (Keep strictly around 4.0; Illustrious burns/oversaturates above 5.5) |
| Clip Skip | 2 |
| Recommended Res | 832 x 1216 (Portrait) or 1024 x 1024 (Square) |
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### 💡 Pro-Tip: Fixing Full-Body / Distant Faces with ADetailer
Because this style uses soft, painterly shading, small faces in wide or full-body shots can sometimes appear softer than intended.
👉 The Instant Fix (ADetailer):
1. Enable ADetailer in Forge / WebUI.
2. Select Model 1: face_yolov8s.pt (or face_yolov8n.pt).
3. Set Denoising strength: 0.30 - 0.33 (keep it low so it sharpens eyes and lips without altering the face shape).
4. Leave the ADetailer prompt blank (or add your character's eye/hair color).
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