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

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…