Character Concept · Semi-realistic · AI Lab

Bone Dragon — Undead Creature Concept

Pre-expansion concept — the original framing before the wings were extended and the horns redesigned.

Stack

Role: Creature concept & art direction, variant survey design, seed-batch selection, wing expansion & horn redesign
Base model: Krea 2 (open-weights)
LoRA: Self-trained painterly realism × ornate fantasy LoRAs, stacked ↓
Tools: ComfyUI, two self-trained style LoRAs stacked + Krea 2, directed generation, generative expand, directed horn redesign
Year: 2026

Process

Half bone, half ghost-flame

An undead bone dragon in dramatic half-form — one side bare exposed skeleton, the other clothed in abstract musculature sculpted from teal ghost-flame. The wing membranes hover between matter and energy, dissolving into drifting wisps at the trailing edge. Developed through iterative variant surveys (bone themes, cloth drape, energy anatomy, liminal wings), then extended with generative expand to clear the wingspan and finished with a directed redesign of the horns into a radiating bone crown.

From the AI Lab

Model Card Cinematic Painterly Realism — LoRA Low-saturation painterly realism for splash art and character concepts. 85-image dataset.

Overview

A style LoRA for cinematic, low-saturation painterly realism — the workhorse behind the splash-pipeline posts (Empress of the Lotus Pond, Saint of the Storm, Golden Emperor).

Card


Base model	Krea 2 (open-weights, turbo)
Dataset	85 curated images, pure-content prose captions, no trigger word
Network	LoRA dim 32 / alpha 32 · 16 epochs · final loss 0.067
Validation	Epoch sweep with fixed-seed probes; epoch 16 selected as standard
Operating notes	Dark cinematic backdrops are part of the style contract — flat studio backgrounds suppress it

Notes

Prompting rules discovered in validation (front-loaded subject, positive-only phrasing at CFG 1, backdrop placement) are documented per post in the Process sections.

Sample output

Delivered splash art generated with this LoRA at its standard operating point:

Sample output — splash art

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