Realistic Blend XL is an Illustrious-XL based realistic checkpoint. The main-focus of this model is to depict Asian women, but it is also very capable to create pictures of Western women.

NSFW is also supported!

Natural language and Booru tags for prompting are supported.

Update:

Version 4.0

Some overall improvements were made to enhance the picture quality.

Version 3.0
This update gives overall some improvements and it should hopefully look less "cartoonish".

DMD2 version

This model is based on version 2.0 with an additional DMD2 lora merged into it for faster image generation with only 12 steps. This version is experimental and primary aimed towards lower end PCs.

This model requires different settings:

Sampler/Scheduler: LCM with Align your Steps

Steps: 12

CFG: 1

You can also use Rescale CFG. The sample pics were created with rescale at 0.2

Recommended settings

Sampler / Scheduler: DPM++ 2M SDE with Karras / UniPC with Simple / DPM++ 3M SDE with Karras

Steps: 30

CFG: 3-7

Resolutions: official SDXL resolutions (832x1216, ...)

optional: adetailer and/or highres fix depending on use case

VAE is included

Quality tags

Positive:

(masterpiece, best quality), (photo realistic, ultra detailed, realistic skin), (ultra high res, Raw Photo, 8k, very aesthetic, absurdres),

Negative:

worst quality, low quality, normal quality, watermark

In order to get better results of Asian women, you can add Westerners to the negative prompt.

Merge recipe:

beret mix Real v5 + Nova Asian XL Illustrious V2.0 with 50% merge ratio

Result of step 1 + CyberIllustrious v3.5 with 50% merge ratio

plus 2 style loras

Permission: no commercial use, no selling, use only on Civitai (please also check the sources for their respective permissions)