Hello people, we artists are always lurking for good references, the purpose of this thread is exactly for exchanging them! I have plenty of references myself, mostly for Mech/Hard Surface content:
What I usually do is open them direct from my pinterest board links using the “add Web Image” feature:
And Save as a “.ref” file. (Usually more lighter files than storing the images locally)
So yeah, no more huge local Reference folders, I just leave them on our vast web.