The Illustrious family - Mage

Illustrious is an open-weights image model built for anime and illustration, with a large ecosystem of fine-tunes and LoRAs. There is no single model on Mage called Illustrious. The model catalog carries Illustrious checkpoints, hosted on Mage’s GPUs, so you pick the one that matches the look you want and generate in a browser tab.

Overview

Detail
Type	Image
Origin	SDXL checkpoints in the model catalog, hosted on Mage’s GPUs
Unlimited from	Basic, like every SDXL checkpoint

Best for

Anime and manga illustration
Character art with a specific published style
Line art and cel shading
Prompts written as comma-separated tags

An example prompt to start from

a courier with silver hair in a red jacket, city street at night, neon reflections, detailed line art, cel shading

Limitations

These are SDXL checkpoints, so they take LoRAs, Textual Inversions, ControlNet, and negative prompts, and they are not connected to Characters or References.
Stacking many LoRAs degrades the result. Two or three is usually the practical ceiling regardless of your plan.

Last modified on September 14, 2026