The Art of War - Epic Imagery (Concept)

A prototype (!) concept of drawings and realistic imagery / art of Epic Battles / Formations.

Mainly useful for generating large scales of people / armies in a battle / crowded setting.
For ancient settings it gives more of a "painting" effect, for modern times it results in a more semi-realistic photograpy like effect.

(Not as useful for vehicular combat)

• Use "4rt_0f_w4r" as a prompt word.

  • A prompt format like the following seems to help:

    • 4rt_0f_w4r,

      modern photo,

      aerial view,

      riot police fighting protestors,

      city streets

      dark sky,

      fire, smoke, fog

    • (optionally, a weapon like sword)

    • (optionally, <color> uniforms

• For best results try Lora Strength of 0.2 - 1

  • 0.7 recommended, tweak lower to reduce amount of units

• Using a high resolution like 1536x1024 or 1536x768 is recommended (!)

  • Using an upscaler or high-res fixer (afterwards) is optionally recommended

  • (Upscaling / high res due to artefacts in the distance)

• CFG 5 / Steps ~20 / DPMPP_2S_Ancestral + Karras gives good results.

• " epicRealism Natural Sin" seems to be a good checkpoint.

• See examples pictures

• Negative prompts

  • poles, cavalry (optional), bad anatomy, deformed
    

SDXL Version available here:
https://civarchive.com/models/538086/sdxl-lora-the-art-of-war-epic-imagery-concept

Pro tip:

For those that use "Dynamic Prompts" make sure to add the "__" identifier after the Lora prompt:

Example: <lora:*****:1>__somewildcard (where ***** is the name of the Lora)