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CyberIllustrious blends the artistic flair of Illustrious-XL with a big dose of CyberRealistic’s style. You still get all those cinematic, dreamy strokes, but now they come through with crisp, realistic detail.
If you want that painterly, elegant look but still want your images to feel sharp and lifelike, this is your model. It’s great for editorial vibes, soft glam, or even fantasy art that looks like a real photo. Basically, it just nails it.
It’s powerful, easy to use, and honestly? Prompting it is seriously fun.
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⚙️ Recommended Settings
Sampling method: DPM++ SDE Karras / DPM++ 2M Karras - SGM Uniform / Euler a
VAE: is already Baked In
Sampling steps: 30+ Steps
Resolution: 896x1152 / 832x1216
CFG: 4-5About (DMD2)
The special DMD2 edition of CyberIllustrious is created for faster, cleaner generations while requiring fewer steps.
DMD2 takes the balanced improvements of the standard release and optimizes them for speed, precision, and responsiveness, making it ideal for both SFW and NSFW workflows.
Expect tighter results, smoother control, and a model that reacts beautifully to the classic Illustrious prompting style.
Recommended Settings
Sampler: LCM
Schedule Type: Exponential
Sampling Steps: 8 (12 for extra fine detail)
CFG Scale: 1.5
⚡ These settings are optimized for DMD2 and are different from my standard Illustrious workflow!
🧠 Prompting Made Easy
Positive Prompt:
masterpiece, best quality, high quality, ultra-detailed, realistic, ... rest of promptNegative Prompt examples (optional):
cartoon, illustration, anime, painting, CGI, 3D render, low quality, watermark, logo, labeldeformed, deformed face, low quality, bad quality, worst quality, (drawn, furry, illustration, cartoon, anime, comic:1.5), 3d, cgi, extra fingers, deformed teeth, watermark, logo🩺 Optional ADetailer Settings
Adetailer model: face_yolov9c.pt
If you only want the main face being refined set 'Mask only the top k largest' to 1.🔗 Resources
Backup location: HuggingFace
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⚠️ Heads Up
This model can spit out some mature stuff. Use it wisely, and please, no cursed creations—we’ve really seen enough of those.
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Description
CyberIllustrious v9.0 · Exploration is an experimental build that explores a different training and prompting direction compared to previous releases.
This build is compatible with Danbooru tags and SDXL natural language prompts, allowing flexible workflows and experimentation.
Results may differ from earlier versions.
FAQ
Comments (5)
Some thoughts after some quick testing of V9. Compared toV8 it feels like V9 goes for deeper dark tones to start with. Shadows are deeper, loosing a little detail. But that is mostly up to personal taste if that is good or bad :)
Also feels like it is little worse on eyes straight out of the box (with no detailer).
Prompt adherence is where it seems to suffer mostly though. Specially if there is more than one color mentioned in the prompt.
For example "amber hair, green loincloth" in a prompt gave me green hair in 3/4 generations on V9. While V8 got them correct in all generation
Still, not a huge batch of generations so might just be me being unlucky with the seeds. Look forward playing around more with this :)
Prompting tip (for V8, haven't tried V9 yet): if you're getting a lot of sameface issues, try leaving out the eye color tags, or at least lowering their strength. You can always inpaint later. Also, "eyelashes" and other generic facial feature tags will force better face detail/focus without any downside.
"Shiny skin, glowing eyes, crooked teeth, huge ass, plump, thick lips, blush, expressionless, simple background" negatives are almost always beneficial.
Unique male characters of different ages - you are the best creator at this.! Thank you.!
Nice model overall, but the face is always the same. Might be useful for people who try to generate consistent characters, but for me seeing same face every time is boring. Even with Vector Sculptor level turned up to 1.0, the face is always the same, and it is not even pretty. Dunno 🤔💭🚿 I end up using JuggernautXL on face detailer step, because it's the only model that gives me varied faces
I experimented with creating various faces using wildcards in prompts. The workflow went like this: one part generates just the face, another part generates the character, then I use ReActor to swap the character's face with the generated one. It can introduce some variability - might even throw a Face Detailer in there at some point to see if it helps.
Didn't experiment much though - I usually just googled for a pretty face, lol, and swapped that in instead.
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