On today's episode of "Hey, I'm pretty sure I've seen that painting before..."

Eliran Kantor is an Israeli-born, Berlin-based artist and illustrator celebrated for his evocative and intricately detailed album covers within the metal music scene. Since shifting his focus from advertising to album art in 2006, Kantor has collaborated with numerous prominent bands, including Testament, Soulfly, Helloween, My Dying Bride, and Hatebreed . His work is distinguished by its fusion of classical painting techniques with dark, surreal themes, often exploring apocalyptic or religious imagery.

As a side note, I realized during the creation of this lora that I way overtrained my other ones. I'll be re-training them with adjusted parameters very soon, and I have many more artists lined up. Stay tuned!

Prompting

Positive: masterpiece, best quality, faux traditional media, acrylic paint \(medium\), painting \(medium\)

Negative: Worst quality, low quality

Sampler: Euler, Euler A, DPM SDE

Steps: 20-35

CFG: 4-7, play around with it

Upscaling

All samples were generated with Euler, then upscaled with hiresfix at 2x scale using ESRGAN 8x Hugepaint with DPM SDE as the hires sampler, 0.35 denoising, 15 steps.