CanvasDarkXL
7845°
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Copax Dark XL y TridInstAName writes: Using art from Honkai: Star Rail, Scenes of Arcane and many more, CanvasDark specialises in punkish, edgy and broody imagery with realistic lighting. Its strength in backgrounds allows for painting-like sceneries that complete your badass characters with the lightning, blood moon and dark castles you see in every Castlevania game! Recommended Negative Prompt: (RESULTS WILL VARY DRASTICALLY IF YOU USE A DIFFERENT NEGATIVE PROMPT!!! LESS IS MORE!) [normal quality] [[low quality, worst quality]] If the model's results are too realistic add [[photorealistic, photorealism]] Recommended Settings: /sampler:dpm2m /karras /steps from 35-45 on average for optimal results. /guidance from 8-12 recommended. Starting at 13 eyes can start looking weird.
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Using art from Honkai: Star Rail, Scenes of Arcane and many more, CanvasDark specialises in punkish, edgy and broody imagery with realistic lighting. Its strength in backgrounds allows for painting-like sceneries that complete your badass characters with the lightning, blood moon and dark castles you see in every Castlevania game!
Recommended Negative Prompt: (RESULTS WILL VARY DRASTICALLY IF YOU USE A DIFFERENT NEGATIVE PROMPT!!! LESS IS MORE!)
-normal quality, (low quality, worst quality:1.3)
If the model's results are too realistic for your tastes, use this one instead:
-normal quality, (low quality, worst quality:1.3), photorealistic, photorealism
Recommended Settings:
-DPM++ 2M Karras, DPM++ 3M SDE Karras and DMP++ 2M Exponential are my favourite
samplers for this model. If you use ComfyUI, I recommend using DPM++ 2M Karras, then DPM++ 3M SDE Karras for the second pass.
-I use 35-45 steps on average for optimal results.
-CFG from 8-12 recommended. Starting at CFG 13 eyes can start looking weird.
-I prefer 4x_BooruGan_650k, 0,32-0,4 denoise and 20 hires steps. Nearest, Anime6B are also good options.
-I prefer Anime6B upscaler for SD Upscale.
-Don't use Restore Faces.
I waited 13 minutes per image to provide you usable metadata. Please appreciate my efforts. ;-;
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CanvasDarkXL Popularity Trend
Heat score, last 12 months
Heat score
7,845°
This week
n/a
Wasn't released/tracked
This month
n/a
Wasn't released/tracked
Past year
n/a
Wasn't released/tracked
7,000°
Floor
The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°. Everything below 7,000° is kept for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so lists stay complete. 7,000° is where measured data begins: a model with real data but almost no downloads sits at the floor, and the measurements fill the degrees above it. The floor says nothing about the model; only the degrees above it do, and they are what separates one model from another.
+869°
Civitai downloads
768 downloads of this exact version on Civitai. Downloads are the heaviest ingredient and are counted on a log scale: ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so a model with a million downloads is not a thousand times hotter than one with a thousand. The six download sources share that one term, split between them in proportion to their counts.
+318°
Likes
130 likes and thumbs up across the sources. A like weighs half a download, on the same log scale.
+5°
Adoption rate
About 0 downloads a day, measured between two readings of the sources, never guessed from a lifetime average. Speed weighs a quarter of the download term, so a fresh surge shows without letting a one-day spike outrank years of use.
+150°
Full model
+150° because this is a full model: a checkpoint, the weights themselves. A LoRA or an embedding is an add-on to someone else's weights and does not outrank a checkpoint of equal popularity.
−497°
Age
−497° because the SDXL weights came out in 2023. Every model inherits the age of the weights it is built on: 150° a year, up to 750°, and it keeps growing until then. Without it the top of the list would be 2022 and 2023 checkpoints on the strength of downloads that had years to pile up.
Show detailed breakdown
Every number on this site can be checked. This model's heat score is 7,845°, and here it is built one ingredient at a time, with the running total after each: the floor, the degrees each source adds, the bonus for the kind of model and what the age of its weights takes away. The colors are the bands of the chart above. The glossary at the end defines every term.
- 1Start at the floor.Why 7,000° and not zero: the scale runs from 0° to 9,999°, and the part below 7,000° is reserved for models no source reports on yet, which carry a stand-in number there so the lists stay complete and never outrank a model with data. 7,000° is where measured data begins. A model with real data but almost no downloads sits here; everything that follows is measurement, and the room above the floor holds ten tenfold steps in downloads at 300° each. The floor is the same for every model, so it decides nothing; the degrees above it do.7,000°running total
- 2Add the downloads.768 download-equivalents in all, from Civitai downloads. Ten times the downloads adds the same 300°, so size matters but never runs away with the score.+869°7,869°running total
- 3Add the likes.130 likes and thumbs up, at half the weight of a download.+318°8,187°running total
- 4Add the adoption rate.About 0 downloads a day right now, measured between two readings, at a quarter of the weight.+5°8,192°running total
- 5Bonus for a full model.A checkpoint carries the weights themselves; add-ons do not outrank one of equal popularity.+150°8,342°running total
- 6Take off the age.The SDXL weights came out in 2023: 150° a year, up to 750°, growing until then.−497°7,845°running total
- =The heat score.Where this model stands on every list of this site. Nothing else adjusts it.7,845°
Glossary: the terms used here
- Heat score
- One number for how much a model is used and wanted right now, from 0° to 9,999°. Every list on this site that says hottest is sorted by it and nothing else.
- Floor
- The 7,000° every model with real data starts from. The scale runs from 0° to 9,999°; the part below the floor is reserved for stand-ins (models without data), so that a model with data always ranks above one without. The floor is the same for everyone and decides nothing; the degrees above it are the measurement.
- Download-equivalents
- Everything the score treats as a download, added up: downloads themselves, each torrent seeder as 1,000, each AI Horde image and each run on a generation site as one.
- Log scale
- Counting by tens, not by ones: going from 1,000 to 10,000 downloads adds the same degrees as going from 10,000 to 100,000. It keeps giants from crowding out everything else.
- Likes
- Thumbs up and likes from every source, worth half a download each on the log scale.
- Adoption rate
- How many downloads a day a model gets right now, from the difference between two readings of a source. A quarter of the weight of the download term.
- Measured and estimated
- Measured means two readings of a source exist and the difference is real. Estimated means only today's total is known and the past is spread over the model's life; the site says which one it is showing.
- Seeder
- Someone who keeps a copy of the weights online for others to download over a torrent, or a hosted mirror doing the same. Each one counts as 1,000 downloads.
- AI Horde
- A volunteer network that generates images for free on donated computers. The number of images it has made with a model is public, and each counts as one download.
- Generation sites
- Sites that host their own copies of a model and let people generate with it, such as PixAI, SeaArt and Yodayo. Their downloads count like Civitai's and each generation run as one download.
- OpenRouter tokens
- A text model served through an API, such as Claude or GPT, has no weights to download, so its usage is measured in tokens: the pieces of text it read and wrote through OpenRouter, a gateway many apps use, over the last 30 days. Every 10,000,000 tokens count as one download. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), CC BY 4.0.
- Full model (checkpoint)
- The weights themselves, the file that generates on its own. It gets a bonus because add-ons depend on it.
- LoRA and embedding
- Small add-on files that steer someone else's weights toward a style, a character or a concept. They cannot run alone.
- Family and weights
- The base a model is built on, such as SD 1.5, SDXL, Flux or Wan. Every model inherits the release date of its family's weights.
- Age
- Degrees taken off for how long ago the family's weights came out: 150° a year, up to 750°. It keeps old downloads that had years to pile up from freezing the top of the list.
- Family boost
- A small, bounded nudge for LoRAs of a family this site is pushing forward right now, always listed in the breakdown.
- Stand-in score
- A stable number below the floor given to a model no source reports on yet, so lists stay complete. It never ranks above a model with data.
- New! (grace period)
- A model less than 7 days old shows New! instead of a score and holds no place in the rankings. Its score is computed from day one, but a model one day old grows faster than anything, so without the wait the week's #1 would always be whatever came out yesterday rather than what held up for a week.
- Trend
- How a model's growth over a period compares with the typical model's growth over the same period. Faster than typical reads as a rise, slower as a fall.
- Typical model
- The middle of the catalog: half the models with a figure grew faster over the period, half slower.
How this model's popularity has moved against the rest of the catalog: its growth in downloads, likes and usage over each period, measured against the typical model's growth over the same period, with its heat score at the time. Above the typical growth reads as a rise, below it as a fall. The past is reconstructed from today's totals, the model's first day and its measured download speed where two readings exist; a model that did not exist at the start of a period shows n/a.
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Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
10
Seed
3358480025
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
dark theme, spiky hair, messy hair, crimson hair, two tone hair, red hair, ruby eyes, pale skin, dark cloak, dark, dark castle, 1girl, from side, chin up, centered, one arm raised,
Negative prompt
worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3)
Settings
Sampler
Euler
Steps
36
Guidance
7
Seed
1475335069
Size
832x1216
Prompt
pretty
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
10
Seed
3046175338
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
stelle \(honkai: star rail\), sitting in a tent in a snowscape, her expression is cool and emotionless
Negative prompt
normal quality, (low quality, worst quality:1.3)
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Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
6
Seed
3046175338
Size
832x1156
Prompt
emerald, vines, tree, emerald embedded into tree
Negative prompt
normal quality, (low quality, worst quality:1.3)
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
10
Seed
4265417321
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
dark theme, from side, from below, leaning against wall, neon signs, city, people in background, denim pants, street, white hair, expressionless, mature female, midriff, high ponytail, red eyes, necklace, earrings, bracelet, long sleeves, belt, looking at viewer, head tilt
Negative prompt
worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3), photorealism
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
10
Seed
1354335926
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
sitting on a rock inside of a river, her brown hair flowing in the wind, fishes swim by her around the stone, and a waterfall feeds into the river, vegetation and moss surrounds her, trees in the distance, bushes around them, moss on the stone, anime art, atmospheric lighting, focus on characters expression
Negative prompt
worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3)
Settings
Sampler
DPM++ 2M Karras
Steps
35
Guidance
10
Seed
3086370642
Size
1024x1024
Prompt
a girl with a sword and a dark cloak with it's hood up, holding a sword in her hand and a red light shining on her face, she is standing in front of a castle, in a bleak, withered garden, her expression is cold and ruthless, her eyes squinted, gothic art, BREAK, 1girl, bangs, black hoodie, blood, blood on clothes, blood on face, blood on hands, blood on weapon, blood splatter, cloak, eyebrows visible through hair, gloves, holding, holding sword, holding weapon, hood, hood up, hooded coat, hoodie, long hair, looking at viewer, red eyes, solo, sword, weapon, blonde hair
Negative prompt
worst quality, (low quality, normal quality:1.3)
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CanvasDarkXL is a base model for the Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 family listed on ModelTrends.ai, a read-only catalog of open source AI image, video and text models. Compare it with other Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 models, check its heat score to see how it is trending, and open it on PirateDiffusion or BitVector to try it.
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