Reiko is an original character: a soft-spoken young artist in Honolulu, Hawaii, who is usually sketching, has her headphones on, and is a little shy when someone catches her eye. This LoRA locks in her identity, so she stays recognizably herself across close-ups, full-body shots, costumes and action poses.<h2 id="her-signature-look">Her signature look</h2><ul><li>Vivid copper-orange hair, often in a high messy ponytail with a black scrunchie</li><li>Wispy bangs framing the face</li><li>Large, warm amber-brown eyes</li><li>Fair skin with a warm undertone and a soft blush at the cheeks and ears</li><li>A gentle, slightly shy smile</li><li>Slim, petite build</li></ul><h2 id="trigger-word">Trigger word</h2><code>Reiko</code>Start every prompt with: <code>Reiko, 1girl, solo, adult woman,</code><h2 id="recommended-settings">Recommended settings</h2><ul><li>LoRA weight: 0.8 (range 0.7–1.0)</li><li>Base model: Illustrious. Tested on WAI-Illustrious v12 and v17</li><li>Sampler: DPM++ 2M AYS, 16 steps, CFG 5 (fast) — or — Euler a, 28 steps, CFG 4</li><li>CLIP skip: 2</li><li>Resolution: 832×1216 (portrait) or 1216×832 (landscape)</li></ul>About the weight: at 0.8 her face, eye color and blush hold up even in costume. Below about 0.7, strong costume or character tags (cosplay especially) start to take over her face.<h2 id="style-suffix-(recommended)">Style suffix (recommended)</h2>Add this to the end of your prompt for her signature soft, painterly look:<pre><code>soft painterly illustration, softly blended shading, broad smooth color transitions, subtle linework, subdued highlights</code></pre><h2 id="recommended-negative-prompt">Recommended negative prompt</h2><pre><code>worst quality, low quality, text, watermark, cel shading, heavy outlines, harsh highlights, glossy skin, extra limbs, bad hands, multiple girls</code></pre><h2 id="example-prompt">Example prompt</h2><pre><code>Reiko, 1girl, solo, adult woman, medium shot, sitting on a stone seawall, sketchbook on her knees, holding a pencil, oversized cream sweatshirt, denim shorts, copper-orange hair, high messy ponytail, black scrunchie, wispy bangs, amber eyes, looking up at viewer, soft smile, blush, diamond head in the background, ocean, golden hour, soft painterly illustration, softly blended shading, broad smooth color transitions, subtle linework, subdued highlights</code></pre><h2 id="tips">Tips</h2><ul><li>Costumes / cosplay: keep the weight at 0.8+ and add <code>fair skin</code> to the prompt (costume tags can shift skin tone).</li><li>Action poses: use strong action words and negate the default standing pose. For surfing, for example, add <code>standing on sand, beach, holding surfboard</code> to the negative prompt.</li><li>Wide shots: her face gets small. A face-detail / inpaint pass at about 0.45 strength with a short Reiko face prompt brings back her amber eyes and blush.</li><li>Avoid "young" or "teen" wording. She's an adult, and those words skew her proportions.</li><li>Works best with one character per image. Multi-character scenes can merge subjects.</li></ul><h2 id="training-details">Training details</h2><ul><li>83 curated images of a single original character (portraits, full body, profiles, back views, varied outfits and settings)</li><li>Base: Illustrious-XL v0.1 · ai-toolkit · 10 epochs / 2,000 steps · batch 4</li><li>Network dim 32 / alpha 32 · LR 5e-4 (text encoder 5e-5) · Adafactor · cosine schedule</li><li>Epoch 8 was chosen after blind screening of epochs 5–10 across eight prompts and several seeds. It never came out weakest, and it held her amber eye color best in profile shots. Later epochs occasionally drifted toward green eyes.</li></ul><h2 id="usage">Usage</h2>Reiko is an original character. You're welcome to create with her; please don't present her as your own original character or use her for misleading or hateful content.

Reiko - Original Character | Illustrious

v3, epoch 8: the recommended release.<ul><li>Chosen after blind screening of epochs 5–10 on WAI-Illustrious. Epoch 8 was never the weakest and held Reiko's amber eye color best in profile shots; epochs 9–10 occasionally drifted toward green eyes.</li><li>Recommended weight 0.8 (0.7–1.0). Below about 0.7, costume and character tags start to override her face.</li><li>Best paired with the style suffix: <code>soft painterly illustration, softly blended shading, broad smooth color transitions, subtle linework, subdued highlights</code></li></ul>

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