{"id":66081,"date":"2025-08-20T03:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=66081"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:36:47","slug":"lovecrafts-birthday-my-sdxl-lora-freebie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/lovecrafts-birthday-my-sdxl-lora-freebie\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s Birthday: my SDXL LoRA freebie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft! My present this year is a &#8216;Lovecraft&#8217;s likeness&#8217; add-on for guiding AI image generation. Specifically, my <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/lovecraft-sdxl-lora-final\">Lovecraft SDXL character LoRA<\/a>. Included is a workflow that also does automatic facefix at a higher resolution, useful for when he&#8217;s in the middle-distance of an image. As you can see below, a middle-distance Lovecraft (that looks at bit more like William Burroughs) becomes more Lovecraft-like and especially so around the eyes. Not perfect, but better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lovecraft-workflow-and-demo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lovecraft-workflow-and-demo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-66082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lovecraft-workflow-and-demo.jpg 1469w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lovecraft-workflow-and-demo-528x406.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/lovecraft-workflow-and-demo-768x590.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The middle-distance fix-up is achieved by an &#8216;automatic facefix&#8217;, which re-renders the face at a higher resolution then seamlessly patches it in. My supplied workflow gives you the auto-facefix plus a Controlnet which can process using either MistoLine (extract lineart as a guide to the image generation) or OpenPose (extract a posed figure as a guide).  Above you see an old Sherlock Holmes film-still guiding the image via a MistoLine Controlnet, along with the Lovecraft LoRA. The head is angled, to show that angles are possible. Emotions can also be prompted for.<\/p>\n<p>Note that making the workflow functional will require the host software ComfyUI, plus several &#8216;custom nodes&#8217; and models. The ComfyUI workflow has the details of these. Of course one also requires a good NVIDIA graphics card in the PC, with a 3060 12Gb being generally regarded as the base entry-level.<\/p>\n<p>Change the image-generation prompt to do things like having 18th century clothes and settings&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century-528x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"271\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-65994\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century-528x271.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century-768x394.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century-1536x788.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/hpl-18th-century.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Include <strong>hpl<\/strong> in the prompt to trigger the LoRA into action.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft! My present this year is a &#8216;Lovecraft&#8217;s likeness&#8217; add-on for guiding AI image generation. Specifically, my &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2025\/08\/20\/lovecrafts-birthday-my-sdxl-lora-freebie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66081"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66103,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66081\/revisions\/66103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}