Updated: Oct 23, 2026
style
A matte, painted cartoon style: angular faces with heavy-lidded, unimpressed stares, blunt bobs and fringes, black and white stripes and checks, small gothic touches, and flat textured backgrounds in olive, ochre or beige.
Trained on Krea 2 Raw from 32 of my own Midjourney images with custom trained style, rank 32, 2000 steps.
How to prompt
There's no trigger word. The captions were long natural-language descriptions, so the style responds to that shape of prompt, not to a keyword. Short prompts barely trigger the style.
Write 120 to 200 words in this order:
1. Open with: "This is a digital illustration in a cartoon style featuring..."
2. Describe the character: age, hair, eye colour, expression. "Slightly annoyed", "skeptical" and "unimpressed" suit the style.
3. Describe the clothes, then the setting.
4. Describe the background: "The background is a simple, textured, olive-green color."
5. Close with: "The overall style is reminiscent of Japanese anime with clean lines and flat colors, with a slightly dark, gothic twist."
"Anime" in the closing line is deliberate. The captions used that word, and with this LoRA it brings out the matte look, not glossy anime.
Tips
- Weight 1.0 on Raw, 1.2 to 1.3 on Turbo.
- Leave out photo words like "photograph", "realistic" or lens terms. They pull Krea back to its default look.
- Keep a character in the picture. Landscapes and objects on their own get a weaker effect.
- Stripes, checks or a black bow give the style something to attach to. Use one or two.
- You may get scribbled lettering in the bottom-right corner. The training images had fake signatures. Crop it or inpaint it out.
Example images include full prompts and seeds.