cahlen/oc-punk-flyer-sdxl-lora

OC Punk Flyer LoRA — Orange County California Punk Art Style

A LoRA fine-tune of SDXL 1.0 trained on Orange County, California punk rock flyer art from 1978–2000. Generates high-contrast Xerox-style collages, cut-and-paste zine aesthetics, skull/skeleton motifs, and Southern California beach-nihilism imagery in the visual language of the OC hardcore punk scene — the same DIY aesthetic behind bands like Social Distortion, The Offspring, Bad Religion, Agent Orange, and the entire Huntington Beach / Costa Mesa / Fullerton punk underground.

Trigger word: oc-punk-flyer

Example Generations

OC City Vibes

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Collages

Punk Portraits & Objects

Usage

With Diffusers

import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionXLPipeline

pipe = StableDiffusionXLPipeline.from_pretrained(
    "stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0",
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    variant="fp16",
)
pipe.load_lora_weights("cahlen/oc-punk-flyer-sdxl-lora")
pipe.set_adapters(["default_0"], adapter_weights=[0.4])
pipe.to("cuda")

image = pipe(
    prompt="oc-punk-flyer, collage of skulls and reaching hands, torn paper edges, xerox photocopy, high contrast, no text, no words, no letters",
    negative_prompt="text, words, letters, writing, typography, font, caption, label, title, headline, sign, logo, watermark, signature, blurry, photorealistic, photo, smooth gradients, 3d render, clean, modern, digital",
    width=768,
    height=1024,
    num_inference_steps=30,
    guidance_scale=7.5,
).images[0]

image.save("punk_art.png")

With ComfyUI / A1111

Load pytorch_lora_weights.safetensors as a standard SDXL LoRA. Use trigger word oc-punk-flyer in your prompt.

Recommended Settings

LoRA Scale Guide

The most important parameter. Controls how much of the punk flyer style is applied:

Text Suppression

This LoRA was trained on punk rock flyers which are inherently text-heavy. The model has learned to associate the style with text/typography elements. To generate clean art without garbled text:

1. 1.Use LoRA scale 0.3–0.4 (most important)
2. 2.Add to your prompt: no text, no words, no letters
3. 3.Add to negative prompt: text, words, letters, writing, typography, font, caption, label, title, headline, sign, logo, watermark, signature
4. 4.Avoid "performance" prompts — band-on-stage, concert venue, performer compositions strongly trigger text. Use object/scene/collage prompts instead.

Prompt Tips

• —Always start with the trigger word: oc-punk-flyer
• —Collage prompts work best: collage of [subjects], torn paper, xerox texture, high contrast
• —Object-focused prompts stay clean: guitars, boots, skateboards, buildings
• —Scene/landscape prompts work well: burning houses, beach scenes, urban decay, suburban sprawl
• —Add xerox/zine keywords to reinforce the style: xerox texture, xerox photocopy, punk zine, torn paper, cut-and-paste
• —Avoid: poster, flyer, banner, concert, show, performing (trigger text generation)

Training Details

Dataset

Why SDXL over FLUX

SDXL 1.0 (3.5B parameters) was chosen over FLUX (12B+) because FLUX's strong photorealistic prior overwhelms rank-32 style LoRAs. SDXL's smaller parameter count is more amenable to specialized art styles at practical LoRA ranks.

Style Reference

This LoRA captures the visual language of Orange County punk/hardcore flyers from 1978–2000:

• —High-contrast Xerox aesthetic — photocopied, degraded, raw
• —Cut-and-paste collage — torn paper, magazine cutouts, layered imagery
• —Skull/skeleton motifs — the universal punk visual shorthand
• —Beach nihilism — palm trees, surf culture subverted with death imagery
• —Suburban decay — tract houses, strip malls, power lines, OC sprawl
• —DIY zine culture — hand-drawn, rough, anti-commercial

License

This LoRA inherits the CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license from the SDXL base model.

Acknowledgments

Training data sourced from public digital archives (Cornell Digital Library, Internet Archive). This LoRA is a tribute to the OC punk and hardcore community and their extraordinary DIY visual culture.