Grindhouse Gothic Pop-Noir

作者：privatewolf

Grindhouse Gothic Pop-Noir | Krea 2

Oil paint gone dark and grainy, like a drive-in poster that's spent forty years in a projection booth. Oxblood reds and deep blacks, with a cold teal or acid green in some pictures, and red or blue neon buzzing in the back. One woman stares out at you, holding up the tools of her trade: a librarian with a demon-faced book and a stack marked OVERDUE, a distiller with a bottle of EX-LOVE BLOOD BITTERS, a bellhop with a key to room 13, a cheerleader whose pom-poms read PAY BACK. She has heavy-lidded eyes, dark lipstick and a face that's already decided about you. Gloves, veils, cat-eye glasses, beehives and fangs are all in the set. So are blood spatter, graveyards, gothic arches and neon crosses. Trigger word: gr1ndg0th

How to use it

Start every prompt with gr1ndg0th, and write the rest the way the training captions read. Each caption is one plain paragraph in this order: who she is and what she's doing, her face, her hair, her clothes, what she holds, then the background. None of them has style, medium or colour-grade words. The trigger carries the paint, the grain and the red-black palette. "Oil painting", "grindhouse" or "film grain" pull Krea toward its own idea of those. Template:

gr1ndg0th, a [HER JOB] [STANDS / SITS / LEANS] in [PLACE], [DOING ONE THING WITH ONE HAND], [HER OTHER HAND DOING SOMETHING ELSE], looking at the viewer with [EXPRESSION]. She has a [long / oval / round / heart-shaped] face, [EYES] under heavy lids, [BROWS], [NOSE] and [LIP COLOUR] lips [DOING SOMETHING]. Her [HAIR]. She wears [CLOTHES, ITEM BY ITEM]. [A PROP OR SIGN WITH A SHORT WORD ON IT THAT MAKES THE JOKE.] [BACKGROUND: A FEW NAMED THINGS AND ONE LIGHT SOURCE.]

Example:

gr1ndg0th, a vampire nurse stands beside a row of empty hospital cots at a blood drive, sipping from a full bag of donated blood through a bendy straw and looking at the viewer with wide, innocent eyes. She holds the bag up in one hand and a clipboard against her hip in the other. She has a round face, pale grey-green skin, red irises with dark pupils, softly arched brows, a short straight nose, and dark red lips around the straw with the tip of one fang showing. Her black hair is set in glossy finger waves under a white nurse's cap with a red cross. She wears a short-sleeved white nurse's dress with red piping, buttoned up to a pointed collar, with a small watch pinned to the chest. A banner on the back wall reads BLOOD DRIVE in red letters, above teal tiles, a tall drip stand and an empty chair with its arm strap undone.

Settings

Krea 2 Turbo: weight 1.0, 8 steps, guidance 1. If the grain and the red-black grade come out weak, raise it to 1.2. Krea 2 Base: start at 0.8 to 1.0. Portrait 1024 × 1536 (2:3), the size of every training image.

Tips

• Give her a job and one joke. The set works like a run of poster cards: a role, a prop or two from that role, and one short word on a sign or label that lands the gag. HEXES, OVERDUE, SOULS, HOTEL 13. Two jokes in one picture fight each other.
• Keep signs and labels to one to four words. That's all the set ever has. Expect the odd misspelling, as in the training pictures.
• One main figure. Background people work as silhouettes, ghosts or bodies on the floor, the way the set uses them.
• Describe the face feature by feature: face shape, eyes and lids, brows, nose, lip colour. Every caption does, and it keeps faces from sliding to Krea's stock face.
• Name what each hand is doing. Most of the set has her holding something up toward you, so a hand with no job tends to grab a prop of its own.
• Thighs-up or waist-up framing matches most of the set. Full-length works too. Two training pictures are brides walking full-length.
• Name one light source in the background: a neon sign, candles, a full moon, lanterns. The set is lit almost entirely from inside the picture.
• Krea ignores negative prompts at guidance 1. To keep something out, describe what should be there instead.

Training

20 hand-picked images, each captioned by hand with content only: who she is and what she's doing, a full face description, hair, clothes, props, any lettering spelled out, and the background. No style words. All 20 are 2:3 portraits of one figure: 19 women and one man. Most are framed from the thighs up and look straight at the viewer, and 9 carry readable lettering. Trained on Krea 2 Base with Civitai's trainer.