How to escape the glossy 'AI oil painting' look: ComfyUI user seeks naive 19th-century Russian style
CommunicationNo8431 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A ComfyUI beginner on an RTX 5090 (32GB) is trying to generate portraits in a mid-19th-century Russian genre-painting style — matte thin paint, muted ochres, flat lighting, slightly naive faces — using FLUX.2 Klein 4B. Style keywords, period painters (Fedotov, Perov), and image-edit workflows with a reference crop all collapse into the same smooth, glossy, hyper-detailed "AI oil painting" look.
They ask the community four questions: whether Klein 4B is too small and what to use within 32GB; whether a style LoRA is the right tool (existing one vs. training on public-domain paintings); whether IP-Adapter/Redux-style reference workflows work well for painting styles; and how to keep a consistent character across four expressions per figure. Commercial-friendly licensing is required since results may be streamed.
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