✅ 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:
Occasional extra fingers or facial distortion
Some stylistic blending when pushing for styles
Background details can vary depending on prompt complexity
🎯 Best Use Cases
Character illustration
Fantasy and sci-fi portraits
Digital painting landscapes
RPG Characters and NPCs
Webcomics and visual novels
Stylized concept art and worldbuilding
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]"