J. Kiakas – Storyteller. Illustrator. Concept Design.

March 2021

We’re only a couple days into April this time so we’re doing a little better than last month in terms of keeping track of time.…

February 2021

I am… a week late to this update which says a LOT about my year so far and how fast time is flying. I was…

Onward!

Just a piece I’ve been working on for a couple weeks on & off that I finally managed to finish during one of our recent…

Woops.

Tas did the sketch for this one and I decided to go way more ham on it than I really needed to, wOOPS.

Oh Honey…

UHM. Woops its been a while since I updated the website and I have a LOT of updates to make but its been busy as…

January 2021

Month 1 of the year done and I’m not even sure what happened or where the time went but it sure did go somewhere. Lets…

Again…

If the style for these two looks a little different thats because I did the whole illustration this time (vs: when tasha usually does the…

A little smooch–

I just really like this doodle! Gideon x Kira is rly cute because: Big strong doofus with a heart of gold x Sweet weird necromancer…

Video

VIDEO: January

I assembled some footage I had around for a little while. I think this is from 2017. I miss video editing honestly so I’m going…

Threats

Seems like things are escalating here… My contribution: Ovoe & the Inks & colours Tasha: Hela & the sketch

Kiss with a fist

Some more of these two! My contribution: Ovoe & the Inks & colours Tasha: Hela & the sketch

Lets rule this town, Hon.

Here are a duo of characters that my partner and I have been collaborating on! These two have been around quite some time as tabletop…

Our Pathfinder Crew!

This is a group I’m currently playing with for the Pathfinder 2E Age of Ashes campaign! The group is a bunch of silly goofs who…

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: Ursula

Ursula (she/they) is a gremlin of a character I can’t talk too much about because she’s a part of Paint the Town Red and will…

OC-tober: Mathilda “Matty”

Matty (she/they) is from BadMouth and is a goddess who is a part of Nephyr’s death god troupe.

OC-tober: Charlotte “Charlie” Twist

Charlie (she/her) is a character from VVV Trilogy who speaks through a gramophone strapped to her hip.

OC-tober: Az

Az (she/they) is an angel with a badass gun and a love for old rock??? (thats what God wants you to believe.. anyway).

OC-tober: Valaska

Valaska (she/her) is my first ever tabletop character created for a campaign with friends! She’s still one of my favourites as a massive woman of…

OC-tober: Toulouse

Toulouse (she/her) goes by Cherry and/or Muffet depending on who you talk to. She’s a time traveller who has to get a running start to…

OC-tober: Vi

Vi (they/she) is the goddess of violence in VVVTrilogy who has a fixation on the main character, Oliver. She is fascinated by his hallucinogenic magic…

OC-tober: Emerson Pines

Emerson (or Em– she/her) is also a werewolf lady who has some sort of mysterious tie to Paint The Town Red’s main werewolf, Winona. She’s…

OC-tober: Persis Kyrkos

Persis (she/her) is a werewolf gal whose has an immensely difficult time articulating and facing her own emotions. She buries it under a hotheaded temper…

OC-tober: Hattie Thicket

Hattie (she/her) is the partner of Hawley Thicket. She’s a part of a project I can’t say much about still.

OC-tober: Hawley Thorne

Hawley Thicket (she/her) is one of the main characters of a graphic novel I can’t say much about yet!

OC-tober: Phoenix

Phoenix (they/them) is a nonbinary [REDACTED]– Yeah I can’t talk much about them since they are about to show up in the next couple volumes…

OC-tober: Ophelia Kiss

Ophelia Kiss (she/her) is the owner of a vampire coven in my partner’s & my collaborative comic: Paint The Town Red! You’ll meet her soon…

OC-tober: Jin-ju Moon

Jin-ju Moon (she/her) is a 25 year old, two-month old vampire still learning the ropes of her new affliction! I can’t say much more for…

OC-tober: Bonaventure “Clockie” Jenkins

Bonaventure (he/him) is a character I’ve had for nearly as long as Jakiz, serving initially as a text-rp character but now finding his way into…

OC-tober: Pim (Wildfire)

Pim (she/her) is a changeling/shifter who is caught between a witch pining over a cannibal who has no idea they exist. She winds up falling…

OC-tober: Jakiz Leibowitz

Jakiz Leibowitz (she/her) is a little shit of a zombie character I created when I was 17-18 for a little RP group amongst friends. To…

OC-tober: Felix (Moonshine)

Felix, aka Moonshine (they/them) is a witch who has the small town of [not sure what name yet] wrapped around their little finger. They’re a…

OC-tober: August(ine)

August (she/her) is the main character of a graphic novel my partner and I are looking to pitch in the near-future! She’s a harpy-kisser, god…

OC-tober: Tillie (Heartbreaker)

Tillie, aka Heartbreaker (she/her) is a cannibal currently living her best life killing off and eating people who have slighted her in some way. She’s…

OC-tober: Ovoe

Ovo Poe (they/them) also known as “Ovoe” is an eldritch nightmare of an angel, originally with a heart of gold, eventually corrupted by the hands…

OC-tober: Quinn the One-(wo)Man-Band

Quinn (she/her) is a character I created, probably as a fan-oc to my partner’s comic, The Sanity Circus as an instrumen fancharacter. Crazy enough this…

OC-tober: Pippin

Pippin (she/they) is a goddess whose powers are dormant and her sole goal is to wake them up. She’s the protagonist of my uh… also…

OC-tober: Gideon Gilroy

Gideon Gilroy (she/they) is currently my half-orc champion for a pathfinder campaign being run by a group of friends! She’s spunky and energetic and all…

OC-tober: Oliver Sanswicky

Oliver Sanswicky (he/him) is the main character of my series, VVV Trilogy. He’s a demi-god, turned-god of hallucinations and illusory magic. He’s a child prodigy…

That Was Close

Just a quick doodle of my tabletop character (for pathfinder 2e), Gideon Gilroy.

Sphynx

Just a quick doodle I did while on a call with friends! We were all feeling the vibe to draw up some sphynx characters since…

Undyne the Undying

Since the 5 year anniversary orchestral rendition of the games musical score had its online concert, Tasha and I have been playing Undertale, so I…

PTTR: Phoenix

PTTR: Ursula

Check out the comic she’s from here: >> Read it here <<

PTTR: NJ

She’s from PTTR… just… >> Read it here <<

PTTR: Ophelia

Who’s this vampire babe? ;> Possibly a character from the comic my partner & I are working on called… Paint the Town Red??? >> Read…

PTTR: Persis

hooboy here’s a mess and a half of a character! you’ll find out more about her through the comic I’m creating with my partner, Tasha!…

PTTR: Em

Last of the main 4 characters from Paint The Town Red! This is Em! My big beefy werewolf babe! >> Read it here <<

PTTR: Vic

Some more of these gals! This is my partner’s character Vic! She’s part of a collab comic we’re working on called Paint The Town Red!…

PTTR: Jin-Ju

Another of the characters from a collaborative comic I’m creating with my partner! >> Read it here <<

PTTR: Winny

Some older art I did of these gals a couple of years ago! This is Winny! One of the characters from a collab comic my…

Violas Cover

Violoncellos Cover

Violins Cover

VVV Trilogy… The Illustrations

And finally here are a bunch of the full-page illustrations I created for the Trilogy. A LOT of these I really like still. The ones…

VVV Trilogy Storyboard-Style Panels.

Crazy enough as much as most of these images seem to make little-to-no sense out of context I’m probably the most proud of these little…

VVVTrilogy Small Illustrations

All of these illustrations were created to be interspersed throughout the prose. In hindsight they look a lot better panelled together like this as if…

VVV Character Development

Alrighty this is the first of a lot of images I created for my project titled: VVVTrilogy a trilogy you can (hypothetically) read in any…