Anton Lomaev — Russian Fantasy Illustration | Modern Book Cover Art | LoRA (Krea2 Turbo)

LoRA trained on the complete illustration oeuvre of Anton Lomaev (Антон Ломаев): one of the defining Russian fantasy illustrators of the 2000s–2020s, whose cover paintings for Perumov, Kamsha, Lukyanenko and other leading authors shaped the visual identity of modern Russian fantasy publishing. The model captures his heroic figurative style, rich warm palette of bronze, ochre and dark emerald, dynamic battle compositions, and the signature "Russian epic" register that blends Norse and Slavic mythology into a single illustrated tradition.

Trained and tested on Krea2 Turbo.

About the Artist

Anton Lomaev (Антон Юрьевич Ломаев) — contemporary Russian illustrator and painter, one of the most prolific book-cover artists in the Russian fantasy genre.

• Education: classical academic training; background in easel painting and book graphics

• 2000s onward — became one of the principal cover artists for the leading Russian fantasy publishers: Эксмо, Альфа-книга, АСТ, Азбука

• Defining covers: illustrated cycles for Nick Perumov (Гибель богов, Хранитель мечей, Алмазный меч, деревянный меч), Vera Kamsha (Отблески Этерны cycle), Sergei Lukyanenko, Maria Semenova (Волкодав), Andrey Valentinov, Sergey Sadkov, and dozens more

• Teaching: runs workshops and masterclasses on fantasy illustration in Russia; frequent speaker at illustration conferences (Морс, Comic Con Russia)

• Style lineage: heir to the tradition of Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, the Brothers Hildebrandt — filtered through Russian academic realism and the Slavic mythological imagination

• His covers are instantly recognizable on Russian bookstore shelves; his signature "evening bronze" palette has become a visual shorthand for Russian epic fantasy

The Manner

• Heroic figurative composition: a single central figure or small group dominates the vertical cover format; dynamic diagonals, low viewpoint looking up — pure cinematic poster logic

• Russian epic palette: bronze, ochre, old gold, dark emerald, blood crimson, storm-grey — saturated but never candy; the "evening light" feeling

• Academic realism base: anatomical precision, confident painterly brushwork, volumetric modeling of figures; no airbrush gloss, no digital flatness

• Battle dynamics: charging horses, raised swords, banners in wind, dust and rain — compositions built for momentum

• Mythological bestiary: Norse gods (Odin, Thor, Valkyries), Slavic spirits (Veles, Perun, rusalki, leshy), dragons, griffins, sea serpents — rendered with anatomical care

• Costume detail: chainmail, fur pelts, bronze torcs, Viking helmets, Slavic vyshivanka, wizard's robes — each culture drawn from reference, not generic

• Atmospheric weather: storm clouds, rain, snow, firelight, dawn mist — light always dramatic, always motivated by the scene

• Book-cover grammar: compositions framed for title placement at top, author credit at bottom; figures occupy the mid-to-lower two-thirds

• Portrait line: close-up character covers — warriors, wizards, princesses — with direct gaze at the viewer; psychological depth within epic framing

• Landscape interludes: mountain passes, northern seas, ancient forests, burning citadels — used as chapter openers and atmospheric covers

Tested Generation Settings

Parameter

Value

Base model

Krea2 Turbo

VAE

qwen_image_vae

Text encoder

qwen3vl_4b_fp8_scaled

Steps

8

Sampler

Euler a

Schedule type

Bong Tangent

CFG scale

1

Resolution

1536×2048 (vertical — the book cover format); 2048×1536 for landscape/battle horizontals

LoRA weight

0.85–1.0 (epoch 20 — full training)

Negative prompt not required at CFG 1.

Versions

• Epoch 20 (current) — full training, captures both the heroic and the mythological register; stable on Krea2 Turbo at 8 steps.

Rights & Ethics

Anton Lomaev is a living artist; his published book covers are protected by copyright held by the respective publishers and his estate. This LoRA is a non-commercial fan-art and style-study tool. Do not sell results or present them as official book covers. For Civitai: tag as fan-art, style study, non-commercial.