✅ Key Features

Painterly & Cartoon Focus: Default style leans into digital painting and stylized cartoon, but still supports oil painting, anime, sketch, brushwork, and semi-realism when prompted.
Improved Anatomy: Stronger rendering of hands, faces, and limbs — particularly in character-focused prompts.
Prompt Adherence: Significantly improved tagging and dataset curation enables better control and style guidance.
Fast + Efficient: Excellent results on even lower end GPUs, making it highly cost-effective for local and online use.
Cohesive Backgrounds: Solid environmental structure and lighting, especially in portrait scenes.

⚠ Limitations

As with all Illustrious-style models, minor visual quirks may still occur:

🎯 Best Use Cases

USAGE GUIDE

This runs well in Comfyui and Forge

DPM++ 2M SDE, Karras

20-40 Steps

Portrait, Square, and Landscape resolutions for illustrious all acceptable

CFG recommended to be 5. Don't be afraid to turn it up or down, I've found good results between 3 and 8.

Prompting "masterpiece Quality, [style], [subject], [background], [color theme], [extra details]"

Negative prompt "Text, Watermark, signature, [anything extra you see but don't want]"

Quillworks2.0 illustrious checkpoint - V2.0 Simplified