Get on it! Fiction and nonfiction meet. IMPACT Books is releasing the first-ever (that we know of…if you can find another one…let us know and we’ll send Hachi to kick its you-know-what) how-to draw, how-to paint book that follows a story line.

By the guys who gave you HELL BEASTS (that’s Jim) and WREAKING HAVOC (that’s the whole crew), we give you INK BLOOM. Follow the blog now for the best updates and sneak peaks!

Check out the Ink Bloom blog here.

Follow Hachi on Facebook here.

Follow IMPACT on Facebook here.

Happy December! (We got our first snow here at IMPACT HQ today, I’m a little giddy.)

-Mona

Andy Schmidt, director of Comics Experience, Senior Editor at IDW Publishing and author of The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels has announced the beginning of his 2010 lineup with industry pros such as Chris Sotomayer and Mark Guggenheim.

Check it out!

–Mona

by editor, writer, teacher, Andy Schmidt

Stop by and wish Chuck Lukacs a Happy Day at his new Fantasy Genesis blog, where he talks about childhood inspiration and his upcoming IMPACT book, Fantasy Genesis, coming soon…

Found these ohsocute zodiac characters via Lindsay Cibos’s blog and DeviantArt page–be sure to check out her DeviantArt page to find out about her latest contest centering around her December 09 IMPACT book, Draw Furries. Enjoy!

Andy Schmidt, Senior Editor at IDW, founder of www.comicsexperience.com and author The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels was interviewed by iFanboy.com in a special edition of Talksplode. You can listen to Andy’s interview here.

Learn more about Andy’s book, The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels.

Jim Pavelec and Chris Seaman’s upcoming IMPACT book Ink Bloom is featured in the current issue of Imagine FX. Check out the article and don’t forget to follow Jim and Chris’s progress on their blog. Ink Bloom will be available in April 2010.

Have a great weekend!

mary

IMPACT author Steve Ellis is having a busy month in publishing — he’s got two books hitting the shelves within thirty days.

Book #1: The Harvey Award-winning online comic High Moon illustrated by Steve and written by David Gallaher recently printed in bound graphic novel format. Check out this stylish promo or buy it on Amazon.

Book #2: The ultimate guide to drawing Ellis’s trademark werewolves as well as other vicious, blood-sucking, brain-gobbling creeps appropriately titled Scream. It includes 23 complete step-by-step demos for vampires, witches, zombies, mummies, ghosts and other classic horror characters such as this part bat, part demon WEREBAT:

Or this evil, rotting ZOMBIE PIRATE.

Click on the book cover below to buy a copy online, just in time for Halloween 2009.

More than 200 students came to two presentations given by Scape Martinez last week.

GRAFF author Scape Martinez gears up this week to head to Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California on Friday, October 30. If you live in the area and you’d like Scape to visit your school, contact us here or visit Scape’s website. You can also write us to get free graffiti lesson plans and step by steps!

Mona

Celebrate the amazing feminal strengths of Princess Diana of Themyscira this weekend to benefit Domestic Violence Awareness month. This Sunday, October 25th, two comics shops in Portland, Oregon and Fleminton, New Jersey are raising money for the cause through awesome festivities and Wonder Woman silent art auctions. Don’t worry, you don’t have to live on either coast to participate, you can bid online by proxy up until tomorrow at midnight EST.

IMPACT authors Scott Tipton and Chris Ryall write at length about the Amazon princess on their website, www.comics101.com, and in their introductory guide to comics, Comic Books 101. Check ‘em out!

We’re just days from sending Master Digital Color: Styles, Tools, Techniques, by Brian & Kristy Miller (of Hi-Fi Colour Design) off to the printer. Master Digital Color is the follow up to Hi-Fi Color for Comics: Digital Techniques for Professional Results, the Millers’ first book with IMPACT. 

It’s a fortuitous time for the completion of book 2, since we’re all celebrating the success of the new Echo series by Terry Moore, winner of this year’s Best New Series Harvey Award. Brian Miller colored the covers for the series, and some of Terry’s work appears in Master Digital Color.

Hmm…maybe we should change the subtitle of Hi-Fi Color to Digital Techniques for Award-Winning Results?

Master Digital Color hits shelves in February 2010. Stay tuned.

–Mona

Learn More about digital coloring: 

• Pick up your copy of Hi-Fi Color the book here.
• Click here for a downloadable video lesson with Brian Miller.
• Check out Special Effects for Digital Coloring with Brian Miller DVD.