A watercolor technique lora.

The dataset contained no subjects at all: no portraits, people, animals or objects. Every training image was pure technique. The lora therefore adds only the way the paint behaves and leaves the subject entirely to the checkpoint and your prompt.

There is no general trigger word. The lora only reacts to the six technique triggers below. If your prompt uses none of them, you will get none of the effect.

Why triggers instead of watercolor words?

All checkpoints have been trained on massive amounts of AI slop watercolor images, so watercolor terminology often gives disappointing results. This lora learnt its techniques under new words instead.

Do not use "watercolor", "wash", "washes" or other watercolor-specific words in your prompt. Use these triggers in their place:

• grazing: dry brush strokes

• accenting: normal brush strokes, glazed accent strokes, edge pooling

• blending: glazing and washes, normal pigment blending

• melding: wet-on-wet

• seeping: runs, backruns, drips

• reserving: negative painting, reserved whites, bare paper

How to prompt

Describe each part of the image and say which technique it is painted with, for example "the brown tree trunks are painted using grazing". You can combine triggers: "painted using blending and melding".

Example prompt:

A country landscape with trees and a pond painted at an eye-level angle. In the foreground is a river bank with red flowers painted using grazing and a blue-green pond painted using melding in blue and green. In the middle ground is the subject, a middle-aged man. He is bald with a beard. His expression is peaceful. He is wearing a loose blue t-shirt and blue shorts. He is seen in profile, resting under a tree with his back against a tree trunk. He is painted using accenting. There are also a few trees. The brown tree trunks are painted using grazing and the green canopy is painted using blending. There are lighter highlights in the canopy showing the textured paper background using reserving. The background blue sky and the yellow and orange fields are painted using blending. The artwork is painted from a medium distance. Cropping: from the sky to the river bank. The composition uses the golden ratio. 

Settings used for the showcase images

• Base model: Krea 2 Turbo

• Lora weight: 1.0

• Sampler: Euler A Trailing or DPM++ SDE Trailing

• Steps: 8 or 10

See the showcase images for more examples of how to use the model.