Illithid Prompting Guide
I ran a small sampling batch of 10 images using this prompt. While using the
checkpoint you should be able to mimic the quality. I ran batches for Steps 20,
40, 70, and 100. As you can see I wouldn't go above 100 steps. You can still get
good results past 100 steps, but that's when it start overdetailing things. Also
you can see a majority of them come out purple in color. To fix this, add Purple
to the Negative prompt, play around with the colors and taking out colors. Its
better to add a color to the Negative prompt than add a color to the prompt.
Take out the other primary colors and leave the color you want the Illithid to
be. I also heavily use Wildcards and have come up with a few that give amazing
results.
Ancient Civilizations, like Persian, Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Ancient Rome,
Assyria, Aztec,Olmec, Minoan, Mesopotamia, Mycenaean, Atlantian give them a
theme, it adds aspects like jewelry, headdresses, armor to the Illithid which
helps change them up. I've also had great success with adding weights to certain
words, for the Drow and Illithid I experimented with Spiders and webs. If you
add Spiders:0.7 or Webs:0.8 to your prompt you'll see a slight change in the
tentacles, and any jewelry. You can change the type of portrait to whatever you
want, but Close-up or Medium Close-up works the best, if you go full body you'll
get some messed up hands, most of them come out as long pointy fingers that end
in spikes, which sometimes is great. I add the tag Volumetric lighting because
it gives the image a light source and makes lighting and shadows, glowing.
perfect for torches. You can add Flame:0.8 to your prompt along with Volumetric
lighting and it will almsot always give some sort of glowing effect. I
experimented with adding gross tags also, Pus, Phlegm, seepage, Moist, fester,
mucus, ooze, putrid, curd, veins, fluid, which added a level of glossy and wet
look to some of them.
Basic Prompt to get results like the samples.
Close-up Portrait of an illithid_Person, Medieval, Volumetric
lighting, concept art, brush stroke style, artstation, trending, highly detailed
Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 12, Seed: -1, Size: 512x512