RealCartoon XL is an amazing SDXL model that creates excellent horror, cyberpunk, sci-fi, and cinematic characters (and more) with realistic details.

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Example result. Prompt: steampunk-inspired baroque rendition of a skeleton queen, (close up face profile), scull and chest bones, surrounded by flames of fog,…

Prompt:  steampunk-inspired baroque rendition of a skeleton queen, (close up face profile), scull and chest bones, surrounded by flames of fog, expressive, ornate, dramatic, detailed, decorative, minimalist in a gothic getup, Victorian influence, gears, brass, rivets, old-world technology, intricate, highly detailed

Negative Prompt: monochrome, black and white, low contrast, realistic, plain, simple, modern, preppy, pastel, boho, bright, deformed

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 45
Size:  768 x 960

Example result. Prompt: beautiful woman standing in a field of wildflowers, beautiful hillsides and mountains in the background, wearing a lace dress, close…

Prompt:  beautiful woman standing in a field of wildflowers, beautiful hillsides and mountains in the background, wearing a lace dress, close portrait, ultrarealistic, film grain

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size:  1024x1024

Example result. Prompt: beautiful castle on a mountain, surrounded by mountains, (gothic style:1.2) . mysterious, haunting, dramatic, (minimalist, ornate),…

Prompt:  beautiful castle on a mountain, surrounded by mountains, (gothic style:1.2) . mysterious, haunting, dramatic, (minimalist, ornate), aesthetic, eerily beautiful, dark surrealism, best quality

Negative Prompt: cheerful, (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, noisy, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size:  1024 x 1024

Example result. Prompt: beautiful woman, (gothic style:1.2) . mysterious, haunting, dramatic, (minimal, ornate), aesthetic, eerily beautiful, dark surrealism,…

Prompt:  beautiful woman, (gothic style:1.2) . mysterious, haunting, dramatic, (minimal, ornate), aesthetic, eerily beautiful, dark surrealism, best quality

Negative Prompt: cheerful, (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, noisy, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size:  1024 x 1024

Example result. Prompt: beautiful woman with sugar skull makeup, stitches over lips, fine elegant details, metallic copper, (warm muted colors), day of the…

Prompt:  beautiful woman with sugar skull makeup, stitches over lips, fine elegant details, metallic copper, (warm muted colors), day of the dead, looking over shoulder, highly detailed, ultrarealistic, film grain, professional, HD

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, noisy, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, normal quality, bad quality:1.4) 

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size:  1024 x 1024

Example result. Prompt: biomechanical wolf with a grotesque visage, haunting and surreal, his head is grotesque fusion of bone and machinery, a nightmarish…

Prompt:  biomechanical wolf with a grotesque visage, haunting and surreal, his head is grotesque fusion of bone and machinery, a nightmarish embodiment of cyberpunk's darkest themes. Wires and tubes intertwine with mechanical joints and limbs, and nightmarish conduits. Mechanical vertebrae down his spine with wires attached to the wolf legs. Surreal dystopian hellscape in the background, post apocalyptic town with collapsed buildings, ultrarealistic, film grain

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size:  768 x 768

Example result. Prompt: futuristic cyberpunk concept art, cyborg grim reaper, gleaming, deadly, cold, hostile, skeletal, iridescent, chroma, rim lighting,…

Prompt:  futuristic cyberpunk concept art, cyborg grim reaper, gleaming, deadly, cold, hostile, skeletal, iridescent, chroma, rim lighting, volumetric, ultrarealistic, film grain

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, blurry, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 6.5
Steps: 40
Size:  1024 x 1024

Example result. Prompt: giant insect creature traveling across the desert sands, (steampunk:1.15) . mysterious, surreal, Victorian, Lovecraftian, (concept art…

Prompt: giant insect creature traveling across the desert sands, (steampunk:1.15) . mysterious, surreal, Victorian, Lovecraftian, (concept art illustration:1.2)

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured:1.3), ugly, blurry, noisy, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4), too many tentacles

Guidance Scale: 7.5
Steps: 30
Size: 1024x1024

Example result. Prompt: cute+ robot with a simple modular design, happy, pink/red, (in a winter world), film grain, (Erwin Blumenfeld:1.2) Negative Prompt:…

Prompt: cute+ robot with a simple modular design, happy, pink/red, (in a winter world), film grain, (Erwin Blumenfeld:1.2)

Negative Prompt: (deformed, distorted, disfigured), ugly, blurry, crossed eyes, (worst quality, low quality, bad quality:1.4)

Guidance Scale: 7.0
Steps: 45
Size: 1024x1024

 
 

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