Image #1:
For the initial raw text-to-image generation, I kept it to 512x512 resolution with an x2 usage of Hires Fix. The key here is to make a lot of generations and I try to find a pose that I like. Sometimes Iāll use ControlNet for the pose but itās been hit or miss. I also use Adetailer to add clarity to the facial features of the subject. For this artwork, the character is the Blooming Roseās hostess / front desk attendant Evelyn. This character has a few key features from the story that are important in the prompt - she wears a long red dress with side slit, has pale skin with loosely curled shoulder-length red hair (i.e. she looks Irish), and for facial consistency between pictures I made her face a mix between the face LORA mentioned above and a slight blend of actresses/models Sarah Bolger and Stella Maxwell. Full metadata here -
Positive prompt:
(photorealistic) (full body) side view of a lovely young Irish woman with pale white skin and shoulder length red hair in loose curls, wearing a (long elegant red dress) with a slit, (standing working on a computer), in a dark nightclub with flowers everywhere and (neon lights) in the background, bunches of flowers hanging from the ceiling, vases full of pollenating weeds, perfect clear skin, flawless smooth skin, wearing gold hoop earrings, [Sarah Bolger], [Stella Maxwell] <lora:hface_20230625092330-000004:0.3>
(Note - for the below negative prompt, itās a bit excessive but I picked it up somewhere online a while ago for NSFW artwork and kept it around since it produced good results. You can probably scale back on all the keywords)
Negative prompt: (((mask))), (((Paintings))),(((sketches))),(worst quality:2),(low quality:2),(normal quality:2),((monochrome)),((grayscale)),[out of frame], ((((ugly)))), (((duplicate))), ((morbid)), ((mutilated)), (((tranny))), (((trans))), (((trannsexual))), (hermaphrodite),(((bad anatomy))),(((bad proportions))), ((extra limbs)),((poorly drawn hands)), ((poorly drawn face)),(((mutation))),(((deformed))),(malformed limbs),((missing arms)),((missing legs)),(((extra arms))), (((extra legs))),(((extra fingers))),(((long neck))),(((disfigured))).(((more than 2 nipples))).[[[adult]]],((mutated hands)),(fused fingers),(too many fingers),(((long neck))),gross proportions,cloned face,text,jpeg artifacts,watermark,lowres,blurry,normal quality,skin spots,acnes,skin blemishes,age spot,glans, multiple breasts, (mutated hands and fingers: 1.5), (long body 1.3),malformed hands, {Multiple people},lowres,bad anatomy,bad hands, text, error, missing fingers,extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worstquality, low quality, normal quality,jpegartifacts,signature, watermark, username,blurry,bad feet,cropped,poorly drawn hands,poorly drawn face,mutation,deformed,worst quality,low quality,normal quality,jpeg artifacts,signature,watermark,extra fingers,fewer digits,extra limbs,extra arms,extra legs,malformed limbs,fused fingers,too many fingers,long neck,cross-eyed,mutated hands,polar lowres,bad body,bad proportions,gross proportions,text,error,missing fingers,missing arms,missing legs,extra digit, bad-picture-chill-75v, simple background, multiple vaginals, (((badhandv4:1.4))), ng_deepnegative_v1_75t, np_simple_negatives, realisticvision-negative-embedding, verybadimagenegative_v1.3, same faces, similar faces, twins, deformed vagina, deformed breasts, deformed hands, deformed feet, deformed toes, bad positions, bad poses,
Steps: 45, Sampler: DPM++ 2S a Karras, CFG scale: 11, Seed: 3589576818, Size: 512x512, Model hash: f62fe61f14, Model: addictivefuture_v1Alternative, Denoising strength: 0.4,
ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt, ADetailer prompt: "(photorealistic) a lovely young Irish woman with a (very red nose), pale white skin, perfect clear skin, flawless smooth skin, wavey red hair, gold hoop earrings, [Sarah Bolger], [Stella Maxwell] <lora:hface_20230625092330-000004:0.3>", ADetailer confidence: 0.3, ADetailer dilate erode: 32, ADetailer mask blur: 4, ADetailer denoising strength: 0.45, ADetailer inpaint only masked: True, ADetailer inpaint padding: 32, ADetailer use separate sampler: True, ADetailer sampler: DPM++ 2S a Karras, ADetailer version: 23.11.1,
Hires upscale: 2, Hires upscaler: 4x_NickelbackFS_72000_G,
Lora hashes: "hface_20230625092330-000004: 0dbbf8639eec", Version: v1.7.0
Image #3:
When changing the background, you can focus the prompts on just environmental details and not the main subject (i.e. character) related keywords. And of course you wonāt need Adetailer or the face LORA (unless youāre doing backgrounds with crowds of people). Hereās the metadata.
Positive prompt: (photorealistic) guests standing and lining up at the entrance to a dark classy nightclub decorated with pollenating flowers everywhere, bunches of flowers hanging from the ceiling, vases of pollenating weeds, a hostess greeting guests, soft warm lighting, no windows, few neon lights in the background
Negative prompt: (windows), lowres,bad anatomy, text, error, cropped, worstquality, low quality, normal quality,jpegartifacts,signature, watermark, username
Steps: 45, Sampler: DPM++ 2S a Karras, CFG scale: 11, Seed: 2814444662, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: f62fe61f14, Model: addictivefuture_v1Alternative, Denoising strength: 0.8, Mask blur: 4, Version: v1.7.0
Image #4:
In this picture and a few others later in the workflow, I use GIMP as image editing software to roughly sketch in colors and outlines of details I want to fill in with inpainting. Without this step, you would need to crank up the denoising level but that could lead to big inconsistencies with the rest of the picture where you arenāt inpainting.
Image #8:
Inpainting along the edges of a roughly edited part of the picture is pretty good for blending the two together much more seamlessly.
Image #13:
An image editor like GIMP is also good at applying effects like blurring, done in this picture to keep the focus on the main subject character in the middle.
Image #16:
Used GIMP again here to add finer character details like her gold jewellery and her āallergy faceā. The reddened nose and eyes are done with a small brush going over those facial features with very low opacity and ādarken onlyā mode for the brush, so it keeps the facial detail but just adds the reddish hue on top.
Image #18 and 19:
Inpainting over the roughly edited allergy face can be tricky. You might need to play around quite a bit with prompts, denoise levels, and producing many generations for you to pick the best one. Hereās some metadata for this particular inpainting over her nose and cheeks. Youāll notice that I didnāt let the main SD model do much at all (denoise=0.02) and relied heavily on Adetailer (denoise=0.18). I find that if the denoise level is too high, it will create a āregularā looking face and typically not what Iām looking for in terms of a red nose or allergy face. This is because it will denoise away all the image editing done on GIMP and overuse ānormalā facial details from the reference actresses and face LORAs where the photos of course are not of people suffering from allergies⦠One day later I might train my own LORAs for allergy faces and sneezy expressions. Mid-sneeze is especially difficult at the moment.
Positive prompt: (photorealistic) (full body) side view of a lovely young Irish woman with pale white skin and shoulder length red hair in loose curls, (very red nose), (itchy red eyes), runny red nose, (freckles), hay fever sufferer, [Sarah Bolger], [Stella Maxwell]
Negative prompt: (((mask))), (((Paintings))),(((sketches))),(worst quality:2),(low quality:2),(normal quality:2),((monochrome)),((grayscale)),[out of frame], ((((ugly)))), (((duplicate))), ((morbid)), ((mutilated)), (((tranny))), (((trans))), (((trannsexual))), (hermaphrodite),(((bad anatomy))),(((bad proportions))), ((extra limbs)),((poorly drawn hands)), ((poorly drawn face)),(((mutation))),(((deformed))),(malformed limbs),((missing arms)),((missing legs)),(((extra arms))), (((extra legs))),(((extra fingers))),(((long neck))),(((disfigured))).(((more than 2 nipples))).[[[adult]]],((mutated hands)),(fused fingers),(too many fingers),(((long neck))),gross proportions,cloned face,text,jpeg artifacts,watermark,lowres,blurry,normal quality,skin spots,acnes,skin blemishes,age spot,glans, multiple breasts, (mutated hands and fingers: 1.5), (long body 1.3),malformed hands, {Multiple people},lowres,bad anatomy,bad hands, text, error, missing fingers,extra digit, fewer digits, cropped, worstquality, low quality, normal quality,jpegartifacts,signature, watermark, username,blurry,bad feet,cropped,poorly drawn hands,poorly drawn face,mutation,deformed,worst quality,low quality,normal quality,jpeg artifacts,signature,watermark,extra fingers,fewer digits,extra limbs,extra arms,extra legs,malformed limbs,fused fingers,too many fingers,long neck,cross-eyed,mutated hands,polar lowres,bad body,bad proportions,gross proportions,text,error,missing fingers,missing arms,missing legs,extra digit, bad-picture-chill-75v, simple background, multiple vaginals, (((badhandv4:1.4))), ng_deepnegative_v1_75t, np_simple_negatives, realisticvision-negative-embedding, verybadimagenegative_v1.3, same faces, similar faces, twins, deformed vagina, deformed breasts, deformed hands, deformed feet, deformed toes, bad positions, bad poses,
Steps: 45, Sampler: DPM++ 2S a Karras, CFG scale: 9, Seed: 3742037523, Size: 1024x1024, Model hash: f62fe61f14, Model: addictivefuture_v1Alternative, Denoising strength: 0.02, Mask blur: 4, ADetailer model: face_yolov8n.pt, ADetailer prompt: "(photorealistic) (full body) side view of a lovely young Irish woman with pale white skin and shoulder length red hair in loose curls, (very red nose), (itchy red eyes), runny red nose, (freckles), hay fever sufferer, [Sarah Bolger], [Stella Maxwell] ", ADetailer confidence: 0.8, ADetailer dilate erode: 32, ADetailer mask blur: 4, ADetailer denoising strength: 0.18, ADetailer inpaint only masked: True, ADetailer inpaint padding: 32, ADetailer use separate sampler: True, ADetailer sampler: DPM++ 2S a Karras, ADetailer version: 23.11.1, Version: v1.7.0
Image #22:
I use GIMP to remove skin features and imperfections like moles, blemishes, etc. This isnāt because I find moles unattractive (some are called ābeauty marksā after all) but rather because they are impossible to generate consistently on the same part of the body in different generations with different poses of the same character (I guess unless it is a very prominent feature like a distinctive birthmark or something that is always there in a trained LORA). By keeping the skin clear, itās easier to believe itās the same character in various different scenes and poses.
Image #24:
I found the face of the additional character off to the right side a bit too distracting so I ended up cropping out the edges a little.
Image #28:
When ready to post, I upscale a little more. In this case I used 4x_NickelbackFS_72000_G (the same upscaler model when I was using Hires Fix earlier in the workflow).
