Dewey: 741.5
In a school library the number one, top circulating books are (almost) always...drawing books. They are the refuge of the struggling reader and a siren call to every student doodler.
In case you have not noticed, Japanese manga is a perpetual draw in junior high and high school kids. While subbing in a junior high library recently, I observed a young artist sketching a character. She drew the large, bright eyes, the delicate nose, the swooping hair and the ... fox ears peeking through the character's hair.
Walk in to any major chain book store and wander over to the manga aisle. You will see at least 3 young persons sitting there, cross-legged, reading intently, back to front.
One issue with usual manga and "how to draw manga" books for the elementary school library is the casual treatment of nudity and the ... décolletage ... shall we say, of the female characters.
The market has responded. These drawing books focus on chibis , fantasy characters and modestly clad humans. The all important eyes and action poses that are characteristic of manga are explained and broken down into easy to follow steps.
Xtreme Art Ultimate Book of Trace-and-Draw Manga by Christopher Hart, Watson-Guptill, 2009.
The Manga Artist's Workbook by Christopher Hart, Potter Style, 2009.
Manga for the Beginner -- Chibis: Everything you need to start drawing the super-cute characters of Japanese Comics by Christopher Hart, Watson-Guptill, 2010.
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By: BookMoot,
on 3/29/2010
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By: Rebecca,
on 8/14/2007
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Coordinates: 88 0 N 140 0 E
Approximate length: 1,240 miles (1,996 km)
Over the centuries explorers from many nations have laid claim to islands, mountains, and swathes of territory of varying sizes; we’ve even witnessed astronauts planting a flag on the moon. But each symbolic gesture leaves less land available, causing countries to squabble over smaller and smaller patches of the planet. Then again, governments can be quite creative. Russia, for example, recently dispatched a submarine to the Arctic Ocean to leave a titanium version of their flag on the steep-sided Lomonosov Ridge. (more…)
By: linagordaneer,
on 8/5/2007
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Life is looking pretty dreary for the orphans of the Windcity orphanage and cheese factory. They work excruciating shifts producing the most foul cheese on the earth (2 ounces make you hallucinate. 3 ounces will kill you) and to top it all of they mu
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By: Paige Keiser,
on 4/22/2007
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Last night, I decided to draw something with polar bears for the illustration Friday theme Polar. But when I went to draw one, I really didn't have a clear idea of what the actual animal looked like--and it showed. I had drawn a few polar bear images couple months back, but was never happy with them. So I've decided to tackle the root of the problem - I'll study their form a bit more instead of relying too much on my 'idea' of what they look like.
Here are some things I discovered. They have very long necks! My first drawings basically looked like white versions of black bears or grizzly bears--oops. Polar bears have very long broad noses, flat heads, long necks and almost a woolly type fur. They are also not as cuddly as the multitude of polar bear stuffed toys might lead you to believe. Polar bears are powerful and can be extremely dangerous, can grow up to 10 feet tall and weigh up to 1,700 lbs.
That's a LOT of bear!
As a side note, while I'm working today I'm going to watch/listen to "Raising Arizona" and maybe fit in a walk in this beautiful weather!
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By: Alice,
on 3/23/2007
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Last Friday Val and I loaded up to attend one of his industry conferences. This one was Arctic Science Summit Week 2007. Held at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH, the conference attracted scientists and researchers from all over the world who work on the arctic--both North and South poles. Needless to say, very interesting stuff from the snippets I heard over dinner--but they definitely speak their own language. It gave me new insight into what WE must sound like when we all get together at conferences!!
The buzz at the conference was the start of IPY, which stands for International Polar Year, which comes around every 50 years or so. With all the discussion about global warming, it's a timely topic and you probably already have displays set up in your library about it! Flickr brims with cool photos about it.
The main speaker at the Saturday night banquet mentioned the need for worldwide cooperation on data standardization and formats--and the need to communicate wider, in common human language, about the research and findings this group comes up with.
It made me want to stand up in front of everyone and shout out, Have you Thought about Talking to a Librarian?
We (you) excel at this stuff! Worldwide cooperation--I have known no other group who so willingly and diligently works together for the benefit of the whole. And marketing and clear communication is something that more and more librarians are talking about today.
So if you know an arctic scientist--or even if you don't--you might mention your expertise around the faculty club once again.
More Flickr photos of Baker Library. Oh, and I visited the King Arthur Flour Company while the scientists were slaving away. Here I am, on the Flour King's throne! (On St. Patrick's Day, no less...)
Have you been watching the "Planet Earth" series that's been running on tv? Amazing images of polar bear- and really sad too...the polar caps are melting and their habit is dissappearing...sigh.
I can see the progression you made. Observation is a powerful thing eh?
i love raising arizona! nice sketches. :)
The sketches are great. And I echo "Planet Earth" I have been watching that and any other nature video on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel. I have seen many of the animals I need to illustrate for an up coming book about a group of African animals. Seeing them in motion is wonderful, but seeing them in real life would be fantastic.
So many of my art reference books were ruined in this flood that I am really sad about that, I had several encyclopeadia sets of animals, insects and birds that are now just wet soggy messes.
I won't be able to replace them as most are out of print by now, but fortunately there are still zoos, the internet and television to fill in the blanks.
Your polar bear study is right on! I saw the last video on the polar bears and they DO have those long necks...who knew? But there is a
'Paigeness' about your bears that makes them all the more endearing. The expressions are priceless!
Steph that's so sad. For one, hunting used to be their biggest threat..I guess that's now been replaced by something more serious.
Exactly Heather!
Me too Courtney! That movie really cracks me up.
Ginger I had a flood once and it ruined all of my 'memories' boxes! It was terrible :0( I'm sorry you're having to deal with one yourself. They ruin everything - I didn't realize how powerful they were until the day our basement flooded a foot and a half deep. We did the whole bucket thing, but then found a power-vac that sucked the water out. Even though we redid the basement, it still has the 'flooded moldy' smell - it just doesn't go away.
great sketches! E