Velvette-XL ✨ — 「illustrious-SDXL」

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V3 | ALPHAV2 | EPSV1

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Velvette-XL ✨

Velvette-XL is a refined version of a discarded project (an unreleased checkpoint), recovered and reconstructed with the intention of exploring hybrid and versatile styles for my personal taste.

It is based on a fusion of 2D styles, ranging from stylized sketches to semi-realistic detailed illustrations. Its main focus is line versatility: it can produce both illustrations with defined strokes and lineless art, always with a high level of detail.

Velvette was born from the previous concept — Providence —, an experimental LoRA that combined multiple styles through tags. The same philosophy applies here: a lightweight, flexible, and adaptable model, capable of adjusting to the desired style without losing consistency, while offering a more complete creative experience.

V3 | ALPHA

ALPHA is actually an incomplete version (it’s a fusion of v1 & v2), the idea was to merge it with IL v2.0 or v3.0 (which should be out soon), also rouwei v7 although I’ve been playing with this for days and ended up gaining affection for it so I haven’t finished it, alpha has a sister version that includes pony diffusion, it’s just that I haven’t tested it much and I’ll probably add other fusions. (I’m a bit disappointed with Civitai, but I recently managed to merge models into free colab accounts and that lightens my wallet)

V2 | EPS

There are changes!

For V2, I tried to beef up Velvette, but the same thing happened as in v1.1 (it significantly increased the strength of the prompts), so I reduced the strength of the base style (something I wanted to do), doubled the strength of PVDC, and merged the v1.1 excerpt to 0.1 strength. This improved the model, and I simply merged it with noobai eps (I was told it was good for reducing steps, although I don't know what changed because v1 had cmd2 and I added it this time).

In short... I don't know what differentiates this from that, and I've only tested it with Illustrious lora, so I don't know how much compatibility it has. Anyway, I like the result. By the way, it also works with the VVTT_detailer. Thanks for reading, bye~ 7w7)/

🎛️ Behavior with CFG and Steps

  • CFG 1–4 → Faithful to applied LoRA, cleaner lines.

  • CFG 4–7 → Velvette’s base style takes over, sketch-like look.

  • CFG 7–8+ → More saturated and cartoonish appearance, similar to using a style LoRA at strength 1.5–2.

📌 Practical tip:
If you’re not using LoRAs at low CFG, add:

  • Positive → hdr:2.5

  • Negative → flat color:2.5

This adds extra detail even at CFG 1–2, reaching quality comparable to Utopia v4 at CFG 4.

🔹 Step Performance

  • Minimum useful → 6 steps at CFG 1.

  • Optimal → 12–30 steps.

⚙️ Quick Guide

  • Steps → 10–30 (optimal: 12–30)

  • CFG → 1.5 for smoothness | 3+ for stronger definition

  • Samplers → DPM++ 2M Karras, Euler a, turbo, etc.

  • Resolution → 1024×1024+ (1152×1344 and 1536×896 work very well)

  • Upscalers → R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B / 4x-UltraSharp

🏷️ Useful Tags

Basic styles:
pvdc_il, pvdc_stl, sketch style, pastel style, cartoon style, thick lines, hatched style, comic style, detailed style, fabulosity style, cutecore, horrorcore, glitchcore, cutelatte, anime, shiny

Examples:

  • (sketch style + thick lines + hatched style)

  • (comic style + detailed style)

  • (pastel style + fabulosity style)

🎨 Prompting Tips

General positives:
(masterpiece), (best quality), (ultra-detailed), perfect composition, intricate details, official wallpaper

By theme:

  • Anime/Cartoon → anime, cutecore, shiny skin

  • Realistic → (REALISTIC:1.15), detailed eyes, realistic lighting

  • Experimental → glitchcore, watercolor, abstract, dark theme

Recommended negatives:
bad quality, worst quality, watermark, text, bad hands, missing fingers, logo, simple shading, blurry, low contrast

Extras:
flat color:2.5, washed out:2.1, low saturation:2.5

V1.1 | Deleted

Well, v1.1 was archived (deleted), but not before a backup was saved. The thing is, even though it was a good version, Velvette's idea was to play with the strokes. So I simply extracted a lora from the checkpoint using v1 as a base (there wasn't much difference, but this lora is very good for correcting v1 without switching to another checkpoint).

V1 | Normal

The dataset was intentionally softened to avoid overwriting model’s core concepts.

🔹Some NSFW elements have been reduced, but the essential elements for experimentation have been retained. (They will be added in a future version.)

🎛️ Behavior with CFG and Steps

  • CFG 1–3 → Faithful to applied LoRA, cleaner lines.

  • CFG 4–6 → Velvette’s base style takes over, sketch-like look.

  • CFG 7–8+ → More saturated and cartoonish appearance, similar to using a style LoRA at strength 1.5–2.

📌 Practical tip:
If you’re not using LoRAs at low CFG, add:

  • Positive → hdr:2.5

  • Negative → flat color:2.5

This adds extra detail even at CFG 1–2, reaching quality comparable to Utopia v4 at CFG 4.

🔹 Step Performance

  • Minimum useful → 8 steps at CFG 1.

  • Optimal → 14–30 steps.

  • High CFG → experimental, depending on tags and style mixing.

💡 Hidden Control with Cutelatte Negatives

A unique feature of Velvette is that it can soften or transform its base style using Cutelatte triggers in negatives. This unlocks a range of hidden styles that normally wouldn’t be available in a merged checkpoint.

📊 Behavior Table with Cutelatte Negatives

⚙️ Interaction with CFG

  • CFG 1–3 → fine lines and human detail.

  • CFG 5–6 → refined sketch/cartoon.

  • CFG 8–10 → saturated poster-like look.

👉 In short: Velvette doesn’t collapse at high values—it transforms them into additional styles. This sets it apart from other checkpoints and allows free experimentation.

⚙️ Quick Guide

  • Steps → 10–30 (optimal: 14–30)

  • CFG → 2.5 for smoothness | 3+ for stronger definition

  • Samplers → DPM++ 2M Karras, Euler a

  • Resolution → 1024×1024+ (1152×1344 and 1536×896 work very well)

  • Upscalers → R-ESRGAN 4x+ Anime6B / 4x-UltraSharp

  • VAE → integrated

🏷️ Useful Tags

Basic styles:
pvdc_il, pvdc_stl, sketch style, pastel style, cartoon style, thick lines, hatched style, comic style, detailed style, fabulosity style, cutecore, horrorcore, glitchcore, cutelatte, anime, shiny

Examples:

  • (sketch style + thick lines + hatched style)

  • (comic style + detailed style)

  • (pastel style + fabulosity style)

🧾 Notes

  • Providence was reduced to avoid redundancies.

  • Styles like oil painting were removed (they already exist in other checkpoints).

  • Maintains light NSFW support (less intense than Utopia).

🎨 Prompting Tips

General positives:
(masterpiece), (best quality), (ultra-detailed), perfect composition, intricate details, official wallpaper

By theme:

  • Anime/Cartoon → anime, cutecore, shiny skin

  • Realistic → (REALISTIC:1.15), detailed eyes, realistic lighting

  • Experimental → glitchcore, watercolor, abstract, dark theme

Recommended negatives:
bad quality, worst quality, watermark, text, bad hands, missing fingers, logo, simple shading, blurry, low contrast

Extras:
flat color:2.5, washed out:2.1, low saturation:2.5

📌 In conclusion:
Velvette-XL is a versatile and creative checkpoint, capable of alternating between cartoon, sketch, and detailed styles. Thanks to the use of negative triggers, it offers unique flexibility to control the intensity of its base style and unlock additional visual modes.

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