J “NeonDragon” Peffer, IMPACT author of the popular DragonArt series reveals some of her favorite digital art secrets in Digital Dragons. In this DVD, you’ll learn digital inking and coloring techniques and tips for creating special effects all in one place! Includes digital files so you can follow along with “NeonDragon” as she demonstrates her step-by-step techniques for how to draw dragons and create their otherworldly settings. Purchase your copy in the NLShop today, and save 20%!

With the occasional drift of brown, falling leaves, the anticipation of dressing up and painting our faces is overwhelming. Luckily, one of our favorite releases of the year is on special—10% off! What do you have to do to get this great discount? Just watch the video on YouTube and enter the discount code, found in the video description box, into the North Light Shop upon checking out.

Click here: Extreme Face Painting! Dim the lights, pop a mini bag of popcorn and enjoy the short, but spectacular, show!

Dear locals (of Cincinnati and surrounding areas),

It’s time to  get excited about a new event: the Cincinnati Comic Expo. As Cincinnati has witnessed over the years, it is hard work to keep comic conventions up and running (we’ve had only a handful in the past ten-fifteen years). So it’s time to show support and try to keep this one around. The event is scheduled for September 18, 2010.

If you’re able to attend, please do! Early birds get an online ticket discount  at http://cincinnaticomicexpo.ticketleap.com/cincinnati-comic-expo. Also, students receive a reduced rate with a school ID.

IMPACT may not have a booth (this year), but our editors will be all over trying to take in all of the action, like any other comic fanatics.

Oh, we must not forget the best part! Michael Uslan (Batman executive producer) and Allen Bellman (Artist for Captain America, The Patriot, The Destroyer,etc.) will be there; as well as many board games, costume contests and comic signings.
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We here at IMPACT understand the need for instant gratification. Sometimes we just aren’t patient enough to wait for books we ordered to come by mail, and sometimes there’s no way we’re getting out of sweatpants to go to the bookstore. Thankfully we solved our own problem with digital downloads.

If you haven’t been to the IMPACT online shop in a while, browse through the digital downloads section. You can get instant access to books like Dreamscapes: Creating Magical Angel, Faery & Mermaid Worlds with Watercolor and Enchanting Fairies: How to Paint Charming Fairies & Flowers, and we also have a full video download of “Painting a Fantasy Scene with Chris Seaman”, the Ink Bloom artist. (Check out a preview of the video here.)

Instant instruction for today’s comic, manga and fantasy artists. Aren’t we a helpful bunch?

Lauren Panepinto, creative director at Orbit Books — a top publisher of science fiction and fantasy literature — waxes on how to view and appreciate fantasy art, and reveals her two absolutes for the best of the genre.

To learn how to create such realms, check out Tom Kidd’s upcoming book OtherWorlds: How to Imagine, Paint and Create Epic Scenes of Fantasy, out October 11th. Here, two lovely marsulephants patiently wait for book’s release high in the treetops.

Graffiti continues to grow as an art form. Graffiti artist and Graff author Scape Martinez talks about current trends and the evolution of graffiti on NBC.

They even feature his IMPACT book, Graff, the world’s first how-to graffiti book. It illuminates the important elements of graffiti art, including its history and then shows you how to create legally sanctioned graffiti styles. Pretty cool. Be sure to look for Scape’s new book, Graff 2, coming out next spring!

Yes. That’s right. We’re hip. We’re modern. We’re into social networking.

Get more involved with IMPACT books and prove your fandom by following us around the world wide web. You’ll be privy to brand spanking new news regarding new IMPACT titles, new IMPACT videos, and you might even win some free IMPACT swag. That’s right. You might be handsomely rewarded with free books and other goodies.

So, what’s stopping you? We’re all on the computer all day anyway! Become a fan/like IMPACT at www.facebook.com/ImpactBooks and check out our Twitter feed at twitter.com/impactbooks.

Nick and Brian Wolfe are many things: twin brothers; artists; face and body painters; WORLD CHAMPIONS. As of last Friday, they are also published authors. Here are a few finished examples from their dazzling new IMPACT book, Extreme Face Painting: 50 Friendly and Fiendish Step by Step Demos.

Click here to get your copy online