| Why
Weed Drawing and Cartooning?
 Drawing
and cartooning have been popular with students over the
years. Techniques may have not changed that much over those
years but, in many cases, the style of drawing and cartooning
has changed along with students. An old book (or AV title)
on drawing or cartooning probably holds little interest
to today's student.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
This
is an easy area to weed. If you just check the 740s you
will find almost all the books on drawing and cartooning.
You probably don't have any in your reference or professional
collection but the AV collection should be checked for older
titles and especially older formats.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Instructions
on drawing various animate and inanimate objects have not
changed that much, but the objects themselves might have.
Look at your "how to draw" books from the students'
point of view. That "object" may still look like
a horse or a dog, but does that car, truck, or spacecraft
look familiar to their world?
Look
also at the background around the actual drawing or cartooning
instructions. Do the illustrations include out-of-date fashions
and appearances on models or the instructor? Kids will notice
this. Gender is another issue to consider. Do the instructions
steer boys to certain subjects and girls to others? Replace
or update with newer titles or editions.
 Comic
books and instructive books on drawing comics have been
around forever, but they have new appearances and names
now. Your students are probably interested in Spider-Man
types more than Superman. Adding popular graphic novels
and new art forms such as Japanese manga will also help
bring your collection up-to-date.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- The
act of drawing, 1971. LCCN 70148991
- Aim
for a job in cartooning, 1976. LCCN 76002727
- Animal
art, 1974.
- Animal
drawing, 1940. LCCN 41051828
- Approaches
to crayons, chalks and pastels, 1975. LCCN 75008415
- Art
by talented teenagers [filmstrip[, 1973.
- Art
fundamentals : basics of drawing, painting, sculpture, and
printmaking, 1969.
- The
art of cartooning, 1973. LCCN 72012659
- The
art of drawing : still life, flowers, trees, landscape,
perspective, the human figure, heads-hands-feet, animals,
birds, 1965. LCCN65015429
- The
art of drawing animals, 1965.
- The
art of drawing heads and hands, 1975.
- Basic
drawing [filmstrip], 1979.
- The
beginner's book of drawing and painting flowers, 1965.
- Bridgman's
complete guide to drawing from life, 1952.
- Cartooning
fundamentals, 1957.
- Cartooning
the head & figure, 1967. LCCN 67-14755
- Cats
and how to draw them, 1949.
- Charcoal
drawing, 1964. LCCN 64-008373
- The
complete book of cartooning, 1977. LCCN 76028407
- Creative
ways with drawing dogs and cats, 1974.
- Draw
50 airplanes, aircraft and spacecraft, 1977. LCCN 76-51554
- Draw
50 animals, 1974. LCCN 73013083
- Draw
50 boats, ships, trucks & trains, 1976. LCCN 75019011
- Draw
50 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, 1977. LCCN 76007285
- Draw
50 famous cartoons, 1979. LCCN 78001173
- Draw
50 famous faces, 1978. LCCN 77015878
- The
draw anything book, 1950. LCCN 50010291
- Draw
wild animals, 1979. LCCN 78014064
- Drawing
: ideas, materials, techniques, 1978. LCCN 78059861
- Drawing
and selling cartoons, 1964. LCCN 64020009
- Drawing
at the circus, 1953. LCCN 54009356/
- Drawing
cars, 1964. LCCN 65-2801
- Drawing
for boys, 1956. LCCN 59007362
- Drawing
for girls, 1960.
- Drawing
made easy; a helpful book for young artists; the way to
begin and finish your sketches, clearly shown step by step,
1921. LCCN 21026893
- Drawing
people in action, 1961.
- Ed
Emberley's little drawing book of trains, 1973. LCCN 73010728
- Editorial
and political cartooning : from earliest times to the present,
1976. LCCN 75045314
- Fell's
guide to the art of cartooning, 1962. LCCN 62014346
- Helping
children draw, 1964.
- How
to do cartooning and animation [filmstrip],1975.
- How
to draw airplanes, 1973. LCCN 72077646
- How
to draw cartoons successfully : 46 practical lessons, 1935.
LCCN 35027392
- How
to draw comics the Marvel way, 1978. LCCN 77020226
- How
to draw costumes and clothes, 1964. LCCN 64022866
- How
to draw military and civilian uniforms, 1965. LCCN 65-12668
- How
to draw people at work, 1970. LCCN 76105257
- How
to draw ships and trains, cars and airplanes, 1961. LCCN
61007145
- How
to draw spaceships, 1979.
- Illustrating
and cartooning, 1959.
- Make
your own comics for fun and profit, 1975. LCCN 75012181
- The
natural way to draw; a working plan for art study, 1941.
LCCN 41026816
- New
things to draw and how to draw them, 1959. LCCN 58013101
- Objective
drawing techniques; new approaches to perspective and intuitive
space, 1966. LCCN 66014431
- Pencil,
pen and brush : drawing for beginners, 1961. LCCN 61-2895
- The
quickest way to draw well, 1958. LCCN 58010448
- Ships
and how to draw them, 1957. LCCN 57-10745
- Shorthand
fashion sketching, 1956. LCCN 57013923
- Sketching
is fun with pencil and pen, 1958. LCCN 58005499
- Sketching
with the felt-tip pen : a new artist's tool, 1959. LCCN
58014269
- What
shall we draw? : The beginner's book of drawing, 1959. LCCN
59009102
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