Artist Jude Palacios, a junior at Westerville South, is currently in Advanced Painting One. Outside of school Palacios creates hand drawn comics crafted into booklets using a copying machine and staples. Palacios’s stories don’t target a specific genre, rather he aims to incorporate a little bit of everything for something a variety of people can relate to and connect with personally. 

Palacios takes inspiration from manga artists such as Toyotarou, Gege Akutima, and his all time favorite Akira Himekawa, who is best known for the creation of the Legends of Zelda franchise.

Palacios’s skills expand not just from comics and story telling, but to the multimedia world. Palacios works with many mediums like acrylic, pencils, ink, stop motion, 2d animation, and three dimensional buildings crafted with cardboard.

Advanced Painting One teacher Elizabeth Langston describes Palacios’s work as, “an incredible use of his personal art style.”

“It’s not often as a high school art teacher that I see a student really embody his own style and create so much artwork outside of class time,” she continued.  “I have had the privilege of having Jude in multiple classes now, and it has been incredible seeing him and his passion for art grow.”

Palacios has plans to make a 3D animation series, learning animation right now, and wants to expand his stories’ perspectives. Palacios’s stories and ideas are taken from family, friends, and even from real inspirations online.

Palacio said he wants different stories for people to read so readers can “feel that they’re not alone.”

You can follow Palacios’s art on instagram @palacios_.8 or Palacios’s youtube animations on youtube @KUZU! Stopmotion .