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.
Click the image below for further information.

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

Did you know that you’ll save 34% by pre-ordering your copy of Extreme Face Painting? Award-winning artists Nick and Brian Wolfe share more than 50 step-by-step demonstrations that turn everyday faces into sweet, funny or frightening works of art. Full of friendly instruction for beginners and fresh inspiration for seasoned painters, this book also includes a bonus DVD featuring two videos of face painting in action!

Visit the NIShop today to pre-order your copy.

A power-packed, must-have guide for anyone who wants to draw cartoons, artist Harry Hamernik’s latest book is full of skills and insights for creating cartoon characters that pop off the page. Cartoon 360° covers every angle of drawing fantastic cartoon people, from coming up with fresh ideas for an endless assortment of faces, to bringing your work to a polished, professional finish with inking and coloring.
Get it in bookstores and the NIShop this Fall!

DragonArt Evolution, How to Draw Everything Dragon by J NeonDragon Peffer is now available in the North Light/IMPACT Shop!

Discover how to draw dragons by following demonstrations with step-by-step instructions for 20 all-new dragons. Learn how to draw dragon anatomy and how to assemble different parts into an original dragon of your very own!

Working at IMPACT is fun. The books are incredible, the art and artists are awe-inspiring, the team of editors and designers are intelligent and cultured. So it goes without saying that the forwarded emails from teammates are always worth taking the time to open.

This interesting telephone sheep art from flickr crossed my desk in the form of a forwarded email, and we agreed it should be shared with all the IMPACT followers. It reminds us that no object should be thrown out, but rather creatively converted into something new.

Next time you find something unusual in your inbox, post it as a reply here and we can all be inspired!

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.

No need for templates when you are a deviant artist! For this Halloween’s sampling of treats, check out the pumpkin art gallery at deviantART.com.

What are you carving this Halloween?