# Negative Prompts
Controlling Variables
* **Prompt:** 1boy, 1man, male, man
* **Model**: [NTRMix 3.5 (NTRMix-Illustrious-XL-Noob-XL)](https://civitai.com/models/926443?modelVersionId=1051221)
* **Sampling Steps**: 20
* **Sampling Method**: Euler a
* **CFG**: 4
* **Not Used:** negative prompt, VAE, LoRA, Face Fix, Quality Tags
## Male-Focused
Most models often favor feminine features. Case in point:
Before
Use these descriptors for more consistently masculine character images:
{% code overflow="wrap" %}
```
1girl, 2girl, girl, female, feminine, woman, women, long hair, long neck, (pregnant), chibi, loli, (breasts, boobs)
```
{% endcode %}
Fixed results:
After
#### Recommendations:
* **Model**: [HomoSimile XL \[Pony, Illustrious, NoobAI\]](https://civitai.com/models/964011?modelVersionId=1319527)
* **LoRA**: [Niji6 Style-Mature Male- ill/Noob](https://civitai.com/models/1150038/niji6-style-mature-male-illnoob),
* Increasing **Sampling Steps** from 20 to **25**
* Increasing **CFG** from 4 to **5** to get rid of the grayish, soft overlay look (sharper colors).
## Artistic Flaws
Case in point:
Before
Fixing it with this negative prompt:
{% code overflow="wrap" %}
```
blurry, blur, fuzzy, pixelated, jpeg artifacts, compression artifacts, watermark, text, signature, username, poorly drawn, bad anatomy, wrong anatomy, extra limbs, deformed, disfigured, mutated, distorted, twisted, warped, low quality, worst quality, amateur, newbie, cropped, frame cut, out of frame, head cut off
```
{% endcode %}
Fixed results:
After
#### Recommendations:
* Increasing **Sampling Steps** from 20 to **25**
* Increasing **CFG** from 4 to **5** to get rid of the grayish, soft overlay look (sharper colors).
## Composition Issues
Composition issues will look something like this:
Before
Fixing it with this negative prompt:
{% code overflow="wrap" %}
```
oversaturated, oversaturated colors, undersaturated, desaturated, overexposed, blown out, too bright, underexposed, too dark, high contrast, low contrast, noisy, grain, film grain, duplicate, duplicated, multiple, asymmetric, unbalanced, ugly composition, bad composition
```
{% endcode %}
Fixed results:
After
#### Recommendations:
* Increasing **Sampling Steps** from 20 to **25**
* Increasing **CFG** from 4 to **5** to get rid of the grayish, soft overlay look (sharper colors).
## Body/Face-Specific
Case in point:
Before
Fixing it with this negative prompt:
{% code overflow="wrap" %}
```
cross-eyed, crossed-eyes, lazy eyes, wonky eyes, deformed iris, deformed pupils, mutated hands, bad hands, extra fingers, missing fingers, fused fingers, bad feet, extra toes, missing toes, disproportioned, out of proportion, mutation, extra limbs, malformed limbs, bad proportions, anatomical nonsense
```
{% endcode %}
Fixed results: