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    Essenz - Darkest Dungeon [Chris Bourassa] (Style LoRa for SDXL 1.0) - v1.1 [OUTDATED]
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    Description

    An SDXL 1.0 LoRa made by AI_Characters for producing images with an artstyle similar to the game Darkest Dungeon - with the art mainly created by Chris Bourassa.


    Recommended generation parameters

    Weight: 1.0 (adjust down as needed when used in conjunction with other LoRa's)

    Model: SDXL 1.0 with 0.9 vae

    Steps/Sampler/CFG/Resolution: 25 steps | DPM++ 2M Karras | CFG 7 | 1536x1536

    'Kohya Deep Shrink' settings: 4 blocks | 2 downscale | 0 start | 0.35 end | skip = true

    Positive prompt: high-definition 8k

    Negative prompt: text, blur, low-resolution, low-quality, grainy, glossy, poorly drawn, amateur, poorly shot, compression artifacts

    'CLIPTextEncodeSDXL' ComfyUI node resolution: 4096x4096


    Trigger words (must be included in the prompt for the LoRa to take effect!)

    • 'comicish artwork in dgst artstyle'


    Further usage notes

    • It doesn't replicate the style perfectly as unfortunately it does not produce the typical black/not visible eyes as seen in-game. I tried a few different things to no avail.


    Usage permissions

    You may not sell this model, merges containing it, or images generated with it.

    Credit me when using this model in a merge or hosting it on a generation service.


    TL:DR Training Workflow

    1. Train full finetune with a dataset of 20-100 images using this config on a Vast.AI rented A100 80gb GPU

    2. Extract LoRa at 512/512 dimensions using these settings

    3. Resize LoRa to 16 ranks using these settings


    Changelog

    v1.2 [FINAL]

    • complete rework; higher epoch count, trained with EMA, reworked captions, reworked dataset preparation, small trigger words change - overall much better likeness and quality at the cost of some slight bias and overtraining increase - final version for now

    v1.1

    • retrained with new captions: slightly better style likeness, slightly better flexibility, less bias towards the subject matter of the training data; added "comic book" to the trigger word

    v1.0

    • Initial release


    Description

    FAQ

    LORA
    SDXL 1.0

    Details

    Downloads
    433
    Platform
    SeaArt
    Platform Status
    Available
    Created
    4/1/2024
    Updated
    9/6/2025
    Deleted
    -
    Trigger Words:
    comicish artwork in dgst artstyle

    Files

    Available On (1 platform)

    Same model published on other platforms. May have additional downloads or version variants.