Kody Okamoto

BATS IN THE RING Prints Available - 10% off for patrons!

Just a quick announcement to say I've made most of the Bats in the Ring pieces available to purchase as art prints over at my InPRNT! As a thank you to you all, patrons can get 10% off their purchase with the code II60AK until January 4th!

Prints on InPRNT!

PERSPECTIVE TOOLS is on sale!

Hey folks! I just received an e-mail from the creator of the Photoshop script I covered in my last Patreon video that all items in his Gumroad, including Perspective Tools v2, is on sale for 30% off! The 30% off code is  2019OFF30 ! 

VIDEO REWARD: Perspective Tools in Photoshop

Hey folks! For November, here's a bonus reward: a talk through tutorial on how to use a set of scripts called Perspective Tools for Photoshop CC that finds and creates perspective grids for you in existing images AND warps things in perspective with literally four clicks of your mouse. This script has been a GODSEND, and it makes my workflow for complicated 3-point perspective drawings SO FAST. 

Here's where you can buy it for your...

NOVEMBER Art & Downloads

First of all - thank you all for continuing to bear with me as I experiment with the easiest and most efficient delivery method for these rewards. I think I've finally figured it out for the art rewards. Here they are a few days ahead of schedule because - I dunno, it's the holidays!!

Here's all the art I've made this month (no WIPs or sketches I can share this time around), with the FULL 600 DPI sizes below for download. (Half of them are even wallpaper ratios, wink wink nudge...

October Rewards

October rewards just went out! :)

I'm still experimenting with how I'll deliver the monthly rewards -- I think I'll be doubling up with both posting them as patron-only posts (so even new patrons will be able to go back and see old posts and immediately be rewarded with content the moment they sign up!), and the old method of linking all active patrons to a monthly dropbox that has whatever PSDs, full-res JPGs, and full-res videos available for that month for download.

Thank you a...

OCTOBER REWARD: Marko Timelapse

I've been SO hesitant to share a timelapse process video that shows this early of a sketch stage because I am so embarrassed about my terrible sketching and I haven't wanted anyone to see just how BAD it is. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: draftsmanship is not my strong point. :(

But! I'm slowly learning how to fix forms without needing color or lighting to visualize it. This brush helped! Instead of using a pen brush, like I did for the rest of Inktober, I kept using the sa...

OCTOBER WIPs & Sketches

Hey folks!! This has been a rough past two months for me.I haven't had much energy or time to devote to art, and I've been low-key (read as: high-key) stressing over not having any content to share with you, and you're all my number one priority. That said, I at least have SOME stuff I'm excited to share!!

- I did a sneak peak of the first image on Twitter, which is panel one of another Beyon...

One more INKTOBER REWARD

KON!!!! I'm so sorry to Mei X, who requested him, for forgetting him the first round. (I hope this is the Superboy version you meant! I LOVE 90s jacket and glasses Superboy) I really loved how he turned out!

I feel like if Kon lived in Hawaiʻi (my home!!) for as long as he did, he for sure learned how to throw a proper shaka.

KON BRUSHES

- 갈필 브러쉬 Rough Brush Set (ê°ˆí•...

SEPTEMBER REWARDS: Inktober requests!

Ahh, sorry this is a bit late, but thank you to all the patrons who contributed character requests for September rewards. Here they are! Scarlet Witch, Professor Pyg, and Ada Wong! I had a ton of fun testing new brushes for CSP and inking styles. I am... still terrible at inking. But I'm feeling maybe like I'm slowly becoming a little less terrible?

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CSP Brushes Used (They're all free or pay what you want!)

SCARLET WITCH and ADA

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September Rewards: Taking Character Requests!

Hey folks! I know it's a little early for September rewards, but here's what's up:

My partner switched jobs this month (ultimately a very good thing for his career!), and during this hectic transition, I've barely had any time or energy to draw or paint this month, and it's looking like I won't have anything worthwhile to present for September's rewards.

However, I'm so grateful to all of you for your support, I can't in good consciousness not do anything for you this month! So! N...

August Rewards

August rewards just went out! All active patrons should have received a message containing the link to August's Dropbox folder. As I'm typing this, the paint process video is still uploading, so that should be up within an hour of this post. Otherwise, you can view that same paint process video in the patron-only post right before this one.

Thank you so much, all of you, for your support. It means everything to me!

VIDEO REWARD: Paint Process

Here's my first ever paint process video! It's the first ever mostly because this was the first time I actually remembered to hit record while I worked, ahaha... ha. I think it's at about 14x speed -- I tried to find that sweet spot of not so fast that it's just a blur of what I'm doing, and not so slow that you have to agonize with me as I struggle to figure out Dick Grayson's facial structure.

Since this was made just for my Patreons, I put on a bunch of music I like that fits the moo...

August WIPs and Sketches

Hey everyone! Thank you so much for your continued support. My Patreon might be small and a little slow, but running it has easily become my favorite medium for sharing art with you. Here's some WIPs and sketches from this past month.

After not drawing or painting all that much in July, August was sort of my month jumping back in. It seems the reoccurring theme of August's work was subjects in shadow. I've been (way too) into lighting scenarios where the subject isn't illuminat...

August 2019 Reward Preview: process vid!

Hey folks! Hope you've been enjoying the last of these summer months. I just wanted to share a short preview of one of the upcoming rewards for this month: a 29-minute painting process video of this painting of Jason & Dick I did earlier this month!

I finally remembered to record myself as I worked. Patrons will unlock the full-length video that will release on 9/1, and get to witness all of my absolutely inefficient painting chaos.

Thank you all for your continued su...

July Speedpaint

Hey folks! Thank you so much for your support! Here's the speedpaint process vid that was a part of July's rewards. It's still in the dropbox link for you to download directly if you want it, but I'm going to try having some speedpaint/process videos live as patron-only posts, too!

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I talked a little bit about it on Twitter, but this month my partner and I took a week long vacation to roadtrip down from Washington state to San Jose, CA to see Hugh Jackman's The Man, the Music, t...

July Rewards

July rewards just went out! All active patrons should have received a message with a dropbox link. Thank you all so much for your support. I'm sorry this month was a little light on art, I've been struggling to get over feeling down/art block, but I'm going to work extra hard to make sure August isn't a repeat of that!!

PRINTS NOW AVAILABLE!

Hey folks! I've finally set up a print shop with INPRNT! There's not much there right now except the one of Terry in front of NeoGotham that people have been asking after. I'm looking forward to adding more as time goes on!

However, if there's one of my older works in specific that you'd like to purchase a print of, please let me know and I'll work on formatting it for print and getting it in the store right away!

June Rewards

June rewards just went out! Active patrons should have received a message with a link to the Dropbox download. Thank you all for your support!

Return of Terry McGinnis, or Kira learns a lesson in 3-point perspective

The overwhelmingly warm reception to this piece was so amazing, thank you all for that! But since it was actually a 'draw it again' piece that kicked my butt many times over, I thought I'd do a step-by-step write up so that you all may both laugh at (and maybe learn from) all my mistakes that went into creating it.

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...and now it moves!

Hey folks! Thank you all so much for your new and continued support. It's almost time for June rewards to go out! You'll all be getting a message with a link to the Dropbox download for June rewards tomorrow.

You may have seen it on Twitter but since I've been in an art slump lately, I've been teaching myself a bone-based animation program and my first experiment was this Terry painting! I'm ...

April 2019 Rewards

Hi folks! April 2019 rewards were just sent out (they were a bit late, so sorry about that! I hope my occasional ridiculous PSD layer name makes up for it!). I  just wanted to take this chance to say thank you for your support and patience as I figure out Patreon!