Winter J. Kiakas – Storyteller. Illustrator. Concept Design.

2022 Year Retrospective

Cataloguing another 2022 in a line of extremely weird years. It’s, admittedly, hard to remember everything that happened earlier (like Jan-March). We’ve left a lot…

A Short Hike

If you know the game this title is referencing then eeyyyyy (its a really cute game) if not then I urge you to check it…

Prism Knights

This post will contain loose spoilers for a lot of the series so if that’s something that bothers you, you have been warned. There is…

TCAF 22

Ohboy are we ready for a wild adventure? Because this whole experience was pretty wild. This whole trip started off with a funny little gut…

FBDMCAF 22

Writing this, mostly rested after an insane weekend at Montreal’s Comic Arts Festival (or more locally known as Festival BD de Montreal). And what a…

Calgary Expo 22

Our first show of the year kicks off with a bang. There were a lot of ups and downs (admittedly a lot more downs than…

Just Some Pantheon Outfits

So, over the past several weeks? Months? Its probably been months since I started this little adventure but hey. It’s been a bit of a…

OC Meme Time

Starting things off right this year by spending a couple days filling fun sheets for my tabletop characters (and a few OCs) created by someone…

2021 Year Retrospective

Picture me taking a deep breath before going through this year. Its a bit of a doozy and I will try not to be a…

The Sin Pantheon (aka Heloe part 2)

This has been a little while coming honestly. We’ve got a bit of a stockpile on these two now and have since taken a little…

Gideon Gilroy and the Great Smooch Adventure

So I did a drawing challenge in October that sort of encompassed an adventure/oc-tober and the now-defunct inking challenge… and then it just became flatting-November…

Ghost Pepper

Last year Tas and I made the executive decision to adopt a couple of cats now that we had moved into our new (larger) place.…

Age of Ashes

In light of us coming close to the ending of this campaign I figured I would drop a big sketch/image dump of a bunch of…

Letting Go (Pieces of Myself Disappear With Time)

I’m having a lot of currently complicated feelings about… big changes. I’ve been wrestling a lot with feelings of regret as I learn the art…

The Trilogy

I’ll probably be making a separate post… later on… about the various editions this particular story went through and see if I can scrounge up…

2020 Year Retrospective

So 2020 has been a hell of a year. I would be lying if I said there weren’t as many “downs” as there were “ups”…

OC-Tober

So here’s a challenge I took up this year to get back into the drawing groove! I was 4 entries shy of really completing it…

Heloe (Part 1)

I had no idea what to title this knowing its going to be a bit of an ongoing series with these two. I’m starting my…

Violins

Okay so I know this is already going to be my second post to this dang blog/site about this story and I’m sure there will…

Ελλάδα

I get off a nine-hour flight of horrible airplane food and freezing temperatures into sweltering forty degree (Celsius) heat in long pants. The family is…

Henri & Chuk Dailies

After sketching one of my first comics (a 5-page weird thing for a university class), I quickly realized I wanted to do a bit more…

Baden, Switzerland

In 2015 I graduated University with a bachelor’s in Fine Arts and a Major in Film Animation with a stocky little body of work and…