LoCon trained on Krekkov's artstyle for ponydiff: https://civitai.com/models/257749

Artist: https://x.com/krekkov | https://www.pixiv.net/users/69447461

Because of my lack of experience and time, the version number may be based on changes that have made certain aspects worse. As such a previous version may perform better than a later version.

I'm still learning the ins and outs of the model and LoRA training in general, please leave reproducible feedback or tips so that I may improve over time.

Check the "About this version" section for any quirks or pitfalls I'm aware of or have experienced.

Some Q's:

• What's your workflow?

  • The scheduler used is Align Your Steps

  • Initial resolution is selected from the SDXL whitepaper appendix I: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.01952

  • Perturbed Attention Guidance is used for the initial image

  • Upscaler is usually 4x_fatal_Anime_500000_G or 4x_NMKD-Siax_200k

  • Second sample pass is the same as the first (params are on civit's meta interface) but at ~.35-.45 denoise and using the Karras scheduler

  • A facedetailer is used

  • I use ComfyUI, sorry

• What strength should I be using?

  • Base Pony: ~.7 - 1, much more accurate adherence to style but more volatile

  • Autismmix: ~.8 - 1

  • Other Pony merges: Depends on the model and its lora compatability, I've noticed some models have really bad compat and lead to serious artifacting. This could just be that I'm bad but I notice it on other people's trainings as well so it might be a merge issue.

• Sample images Model?

  • All images are Autismmix_confetti

• What does your filename structure mean?

  • It's split into 4 parts of [XX]-MAnon-[YYYY]-[ZZZZZZ]

    • [XX] - Artist initials

    • MAnon - My moniker

    • [YYYY] - SD version and Model version (Ex. XLV4.1 is on SDXL [Not 1.5] and it's version 4.1 of the model)

    • [ZZZZZZ] - The epochs, only useful to me