Description

This model borrows from my own Illustrious model GDP Illustrious and several Loras, some I created and some I downloaded, as well as the absolutely fantastic Nova Cartoon XL model to create more cartoonish/comic style images, but retains a lot of the flexibility of vanilla Illustrious models.

Ingredients

This is a merge of several amazing Illustrious models that created GDP Illustrious :

The primary model is an excellent realistic model, NovaRealityXL. This model produces fantastic images, please check it out!

Nova was then merged with the awesome WAI-NSFW_Illustrious. I love this checkpoint!

The resultant checkpoint was then merged with another fantastic model that is more 2.5D, Illustrij.

Then, since I really love the results I was getting with this model: Nova Cartoon XL was merged back in along with DisneyLikeIllust Lora, and a few merged other Loras.

I highly recommend consulting the descriptions on the four above models to get the best results.

Parameters

Sampler: Euler A

Steps: 30 - 35

CFG: 5 - 7

VAE: sdxl_vae

Clip Skip: 2

Prompting

In the positive prompt, I almost always include some quality tags that I borrowed from this excellent article by @Cicatriz. If you haven't checked it out, you should!

masterpiece, best quality, absurdres, amazing quality, very aesthetic, newest, perfect quality, absolutely eye-catching, 

I've noticed Illustrious is more sensitive to negative prompting, so this might be overkill. I usually use the following in the negative prompt:

child, kid, childish, childlike, loli, asian, 

An example prompt:

masterpiece, best quality, absurdres, amazing quality, very aesthetic, newest, perfect quality, absolutely eye-catching, subject focus, 1girl, depth of field, realistic, photorealistic, ?????????????, teasing, ????????, squatting, leaning back, arm support, ????????, ???????????, from above, highleg swimsuit, eyeliner, looking at viewer, tiger print, disney, jungle, blurry background, blurry foreground, {gray|brown|blonde|white|red|auburn|black|pink|blue} hair, {hair up|short twintails|updo|half updo|short hair|long hair|bob cut|pixie cut|medium hair|high ponytail|high twintails}, __devilkkw/body-1/hair_styles_front__, from {side|behind|front|above}, {green|brown|blue|grey} eyes,

Negative prompt:
child, kid, childish, childlike, loli, asian,