Nova Anime is an excellent anime model based on Illustrious XL. Like most anime models, Nova works best with Danbooru tags.
Here are a few suggestions from the Nova Anime page on Civit:
Prompt: masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres, newest, scenery, {Prompt}, BREAK, depth of field, volumetric lighting
Negative Prompts: modern, recent, old, oldest, cartoon, graphic, text, painting, crayon, graphite, abstract, glitch, deformed, mutated, ugly, disfigured, long body, lowres, bad anatomy, bad hands, missing fingers, extra digits, fewer digits, cropped, very displeasing, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, conjoined, bad ai-generated
Recommended Steps: 20~30
Recommended CFG: 4~6
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Nova can create many anime characters and artist's styles. Check out this MonAI Artist Study using Animagine XL v3.1 for some artist style examples. The artist's styles are more well-defined in Nova. Many of these examples have artist's names at the end of the prompts.
Check out this newer references of anime artists, all of which should work with Nova: NovelAI Anime Artist Tags
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, rain coat, pink hair, short hair, wind, night, city, scenic background, wet, street, reflections, neon, looking at viewer, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, cinematic, (Clamp:1.2) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, halter blouse, ruffle blouse, long pants, pink hair, short hair, on a wildflower hill, scenic background, looking at viewer, from above, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Seinen style:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1giraffe, on a wildflower hill, long neck, beautiful giraffe, cloudy sky, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres Negative Prompt: lowres, low quality, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), displeasing, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, conjoined, bad ai-generated Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, night, wet street, rain, raindrops, water, puddles, city, street, hood, jacket, navy jacket, shorts, bending forward, looking at viewer, from below, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Studio Ghibli:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, bad anatomy, displeasing, ugly, fewer digit, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3) Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, pink hair, short hair, purple blouse, black jacket, (under an ultraviolet light:1.2), close portrait, head on hand, looking to the side, cinematic, masterpiece, best quality, (purple and pink:1.2), (kradebii:1.2) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1boy, Tony Tony Chopper, facing viewer, close up, on a beach, wind, cloudy sky, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, (one_piece, oda_eiichiro_:1.2) Negative Prompt: bad anatomy, lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, cropped, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.3), very displeasing, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, adult, solo, short hair, colored tips, oversized shirt, sleeves pushed up, (villain pose), spiked gloves, dark alley, night, neon signs, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Akitaro Daichi:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, t-shirt, long pants, brown hair, short hair, wildflowers, tall grass, scenic background, looking at viewer, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki:1.21) Negative Prompt: lowres, bad anatomy, displeasing, ugly, fewer digit, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3) Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, pale pink hair, colored tips, sleeveless blouse, satin gloves, translucent wings, large wings, demon wings, demon horns, sitting on floor, hugging own legs, window, office, downtown view, masterpiece, neonfloyd Negative Prompt: lowres, bad anatomy, displeasing, ugly, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3) Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, off-shoulder shirt, long pants, red hair, short hair, on a wildflower hill, scenic background, looking at viewer, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, cinematic, (Clamp:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, jacket, silver hair, night, city, street, alley, neon, leaning back, back against a wall, neon, looking at viewer, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Akitaro Daichi:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, black jacket, leather jacket, long pants, black pants, red hair, curly hair, red boots, night, city, street, neon, looking at viewer, from below, masterpiece, best quality, amazing quality, very aesthetic, high resolution, ultra-detailed, absurdres Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, fairy, insect wings, halter blouse, layered skirt, ruffle skirt, pink hair, short hair, in the woods, sitting on a mushroom, big ferns, tall trees, dappled sunlight, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki:1.21) Negative Prompt: lowres, bad anatomy, displeasing, ugly, fewer digit, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3) Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, tiny fairy, insect wings, halter blouse, layered skirt, ruffle skirt, pink hair, short hair, in the woods, sitting on a mushroom, hugging knees, big ferns, tall trees, dappled sunlight, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Gekiga style:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1kitten, on a wildflower hill, long whiskers, cat eyes, cute kitten behind wildflowers, cloudy sky, masterpiece, best quality, cinematic, (Takeshi Obata:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (low quality, worst quality:1.3), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.0 |
 Prompt: 1girl, yellow jacket, pink shirt, black jeans, wet, (rain:1.2), shopping bags, cowboy shot, city sidewalk, cars, crowds, rainfall, reflections, neon, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic Negative Prompt: lowres, low quality, (worst quality, bad quality:1.2), displeasing, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, bad anatomy, sketch, jpeg artifacts, signature, watermark, username, signature, simple background, conjoined, bad ai-generated Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, close up, halter blouse, ruffle blouse, long pants, pink hair, short hair, on a wildflower hill, scenic background, looking at viewer, from above, upper body, masterpiece, best quality, very aesthetic, ultra-detailed, absurdres, (Akitaro Daichi:1.3) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy, signature, watermark Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
 Prompt: 1girl, solo, rain, cherry blossom tree, dynamic angle, halter dress, purple dress, thighhigh boots, looking at viewer, from below, upper body, cinematic, masterpiece, best quality, (purple and pink:1.2), (itaco:1.2) Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
.jpg) Prompt: 1girl, solo, sitting on a tree branch, in a cherry blossom tree, halter blouse, shorts, purple blouse, thighhigh boots, looking at viewer, from above, upper body, cinematic, masterpiece, best quality, (purple and pink:1.2), Negative Prompt: lowres, ugly, fewer digits, extra digit, missing fingers, bad hands, blurry, (bad quality, worst quality:1.2), displeasing, bad anatomy Guidance Scale: 5.5 |
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