Where do you look for reference?
Pinterest is filled with aislop

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>>7585047 (OP)
Assuming you mean stuff for drawing people in armor
>armor
Museums and art books
>reference poses
/ic/, /hm/, /s/ (the poses can often be pretty pinup-y)
Shutterstock (lower volume but they tend to be more relevant than 4chan)
Also do your drawing from imagination reps

>>7585047 (OP)
google images

>>7585228
Google is pure cancer
Its very inconsistent and also has aislop
>>7585188
Any good books or website for historic accurate armor

>>7585047 (OP)
I don't use reference anymore. I've seen enough.

>>7585338
pyw

Add :before 2021 to your Google image searches

Eg: 14th Century Historic Armour before:2021

>>7585047 (OP)
My dreams and hallucinations

>>7585332
>Google
Tools
Custome Range
Pre 2020
No AIslop

>>7585340
>Nice work, looks pro, but it would be even better if you used reference for sternomastoid, the insertion is off by a cm

4channel.org because I can't find anything these days

>>7585528
refs aside, unironically 90% of the time I either search the archive or google [search term] reddit unless I know of a dedicated boomer site like handprint, huevaluechroma etc, the internet is fucking garbage if you don't know where to go

>>7585047 (OP)
This is stupid. All of them are military except the last one.

>>7585047 (OP)
most AI algorythms I can avoid. I can spot the AI so I don't click on it.

time to go out and take some photos

>>7585332
>Google is pure cancer
i agree that google is garbage but i am not knowledgable of where else to go

>>7587659
Presearch, Yandex, fucking BING
Deviantart has a lot of photographers if you specifically want photos, turn on the "Suppress AI" toggle and append photography on your search

>>7587646
I live in a shithole

>>7587752
start painting forests

>>7585047 (OP)
books and magazines
Wikimedia Commons

>>7585047 (OP)
I still use Pinterest, Google is even more filled with aislop. You can avoid so if you find an image you like and looking at similar images recommended instead of the search bar

>>7588344
You can also do -ai -chatgpt -mona -claude and the other image generators so if they have those tags they don't show up. You can also just do before:2018 (or whatever year) and get the images from back then.

>>7585047 (OP)
>Pinterest is filled with aislop
Anon, in current year ever company is embracing artifically made illustrations, it is just the current trend. I use Pinterest, I dont do character design and usually the only time I see AMI are when characters randomly show up; namely from anime or cute asian based characters.
I suggest you just get accustomed to either fine tuning the search or have a better mind to zone them out and focus on what is not AMI.
At the same time some of those AMIs could be useful, otherwise why notuse some other boards here like /s/ or /hr/? AMIs arent going away anytime soon, so strap in!

>>7585047 (OP)
>Europe
>The cop actually has a gun
Lol

>>7587574
This is the key. Kinda sad, but it seems to be a necessary skill now if you want to view something 'authentic.'

>>7589606
Uhh, yes? If you have a mental image of unarmed european cops, you're thinking of the british.

When I draw vehicles I look for 3d models so I can pose it in the angle I want

Too bad you can't filter AI slop, at this point I don't really care about aipajeets doind their think but let me enjoy internet without AI, how hard can it be, techbross just add a fucking *don't show AI results* option

>>7585047 (OP)
most ai slop on pinterest is easy to spot, you can check by reverse image searching sometimes people will point it out in the comments

>>7589775
The "Police" on his uniform is written in English.
So it's obviously the UK, you dolt.

e-hentai and z-library for artbooks and whatnot

>>7585047 (OP)
/tg/ for most cool things

Some people use bait headlines to get people to start a chainmail bikini posting war, but you can just also ask for chainmail bikini thread and get it, I prefer the latter way.

Same for most things, character art, real arms and armor, scifi stuff, historical documents, shit that's been leaked on war thunder forums, it's a good board that has only slight reddit poison

>>7585047 (OP)
>aisloppers are terrorizing every website possible
what the fuck is wrong with them

>>7590253
fun fact "police" means police in french

>>7585332
You just need to block ai gallery sites like pixai, tensor, civitai and there's also a few others