Thinking about how with google image search being poisoned by AI we might want to think about returning to the library as a source of high-quality reference images...despite their inaccuracies, AI images will start to be published more and more in books, but libraries keep more old information than you tend to see online so visual materials from before the AI era (which for most purposes are still just as relevant) will continue to constitute large parts of the collection for the next couple decades.

Also for people with decision paralysis, the way the images come pre-selected and pre-ordered is helpful for study purposes--if I had a goal of "I want to be more comfortable drawing foxes" then copying every image in this book in order over the course of 1-2 months would surely get me there.

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Looking back at this post with the photos I took,.. they all look so retro.. haha!. Far from the polished professional pictures expected nowadays. I kinda miss this raw look..

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