Pro artist's style-LoRA failure: 66 illustrations yield barely any change or more hallucinations

Shady-Dragon · reddit · 2026-09-23

A professional illustrator, pushed by an industry shift toward volume, is trying to reproduce his own art style — strokes, color, shading, proportions, not just characters — in AI. Training a LoRA on 66 of his illustrations in Drawthings on iPad, with captions auto-generated by a small Qwen model then hand-corrected, produced LoRAs that either barely changed output or increased hallucinations; most tutorials only cover character LoRAs. He asks whether there's a better route than LoRAs for style transfer.

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