Inase × Old Masters (Krea 2) — Ukiyo-e meets Oil Painting

An experimental Krea 2 LoRA that fuses a Japanese character LoRA ("inase", ukiyo-e / woodblock feel) with a classical oil-painting style LoRA. Trained only on copyright-free material. The result keeps an authentic East-Asian face and Japanese dress while rendering everything with the soft shading, chiaroscuro and brushwork of 19th-century oil painting.

Base model: Krea 2 (Turbo). Recommended sampler: euler / simple, 8 steps, CFG 1.0.

HOW TO USE

- Strength 1.0 (single LoRA). Push to 1.15 for heavier oil texture.

- Keep the face Japanese: put "inase, japanese, black hair" near the front.

- Style dials: "soft brushwork" (subtle) -> "oil painting, soft realistic shading" (default) -> "thick impasto oil painting, heavy visible brushstrokes" (strong).

- Do NOT write "kimono" / "yukata" explicitly - it snaps back to flat ukiyo-e. Describe the garment softly, e.g. "light floral robe".

EXAMPLE PROMPT

masterpiece, best quality, 1girl, solo, inase, japanese, black hair, full body, standing, garden, flower crown, light floral summer robe, soft brushwork, oil painting, soft realistic shading

Great for classical portrait, bijin-ga, and 19th-century-realism genre scenes (laborers, gardens, night sakura).

TROUBLESHOOTING - "it suddenly looks like a flat woodblock print"

This LoRA carries a strong ukiyo-e / woodblock base from the character side, so with a bare or sparse prompt it often snaps to a flat, printed look instead of oil paint. If that happens:

- ADD oil cues: "soft brushwork" first, then step up to "oil painting, soft realistic shading", then "thick impasto oil painting, heavy visible brushstrokes" if you want more.

- DESCRIBE THE SCENE / LIGHT. Flat output usually means the prompt is too sparse. Add setting and lighting words ("garden background, soft natural light", "chiaroscuro", "window light"). The richer the scene, the more it renders as a painting.

- DON'T name the garment. Writing "kimono" / "yukata" / "obi" forces the flat print back. Describe it softly instead: "light floral robe", "light gauzy summer floral robe".

- Face going Western? Add "japanese, black hair" (and "east asian face") near the front.

- Close-up faces flatten most easily - always give a face shot some scene/light or an oil cue.