New version for surreal / vivid illustrations: https://civitai.com/models/44596

IMPORTANT USAGE GUIDE: bad-artist (the base version) is the only negative embedding I can comfortably recommend using for this model, and not even that is a requirement. To liven up color and lighting (when not using a negative embedding), I suggest putting desaturated and pixelated in your negative prompt with 2 or 3 units of down-weighting (that means [[[desaturated]]], [[[pixelated]]] in A1111 UI, or desaturated---, pixelated--- in InvokeAI). To lean output more towards an anime style rather than semi-realistic, include anime in your prompt. Put realistic in your negative prompt to further lean towards 2D, or by the front of your positive prompt to lean more 3D.

Example images were generated in InvokeAI, so you'll have to use your UI's weighting syntax (which means the + and - in my prompts likely won't do anything for you unless you're using InvokeAI).

The goal of this model was to anchor 526Mix's whimsical and artistic personality into anime. 526Mix can do a pretty cool anime style (and other 2D styles), but it can be a bit unreliable at times. This simple mix increases the reliability, depth, and nuance in 526Mix's anime and anime-esque capabilities.

This model will be great for:

• People who want an anime aesthetic that is different from other SD 1.5 models

• People who are more distant, casual enjoyers of anime, who might find this model more welcoming than one that's heavily leaned to modern anime art only

• People who like more classic anime styles, ala Voltron and Ghost in the Shell

• People who like generating in 2D and semi-real styles and liked 526Mix, who will probably enjoy the better lighting and touch of wackiness in this version

I'm not big on anime myself, so this was more of an experiment. If you liked 526Mix's variety and personality (and cozy interior design), and also like anime, you'll probably have fun with this.

This model is a straightforward mix of 526Mix-V1.3.5, and Nerfgun3's Macaron Mix, the latter having had the noise offset added at 0.70 multiplier. This is done with a weighted sum at a 0.3 multiplier with Macaron Mix. I always like Nerfgun3's art and embeddings, so I felt I could trust that model to be fairly in line with my own creative desires and expectations.

As always, I suggest going to the source models for the full experience, and Nerfgun3's Macaron Mix and Newartmodel4 aren't exceptions here.

Example images were generated in Invoke AI with the model converted to Diffusers format, hires fix on (0.45 strength, works like img2img), and the sampler DDIM (unless listed otherwise). This means unless you use Invoke AI, you likely won't be able to recreate my images exactly. Just learn from the prompts and modify the weighting in prompts as needed for the UI you use (if you use the A1111 UI, any (plus sign)+ is equal to one set of parentheses).