Jayla Parlor

Jayla Parlor is a growing black Illustrator in KCAI. Growing up in a small town and having difficulty expressing themselves verbally, they started to draw as a hobby at school, which grew into something more once they hit high school. They wanted to specifically be an Illustrator because all they would do was draw characters they made in their silly little head while also getting the teaching they didn’t get in high school (since they didn’t have art classes there). They like drawing original characters with a side of fan art (mostly for the video games Splatoon and Overwatch) because they have a special part of their heart and reminds them of when they drew Sonic characters when they were first drawing :)