aleesa
filipina-american illustrator based in SF, CA
retired projects
commissions
I am not actively taking commissions, but I am always open to inquiries. Feel free to leave a message for me below if you're interested or just want to say "Hi!"
aleesa bautista
My name is Aleesa, I was born and raised in the East Bay of California and spend my days as a Intensive Care Unit social worker. I love travelling and taking pictures of everything I see, drawing, journaling, reading, playing video games, and writing poetry novels in my spare time.Since I was very young, I loved drawing with graphite, painting with acrylics, and story writing. Nowadays, I find myself interested in in digital art, character design and concept art. Although I'm not interested in pursuing art as a career these days, I would have been a video game character designer or a comic book artist in another life.
portfolio
If you are interested in seeing more of my work, visit my Instagram.
personal work
fan art
commissions
emotes
In a world where anomalies hide in plain sight, Yara Du Verre was born hearing a voice — whispering from nowhere, humming beneath her skin, murmuring in the tides, looping through her dreams, and beckoning from the dark. She gave it a name and carved it a place in her soul. Now, she swears she'll follow the Whispering — even into the ocean’s depths, where the light dies — just to learn what it wants and why it chose her to haunt.
About the Project
Yara Du Verre is my Tokyo Debunker OC. As of now, I have retired working on this fan project with no plans to pick it back up, but I'll keep the website up for the sake of demonstrating my past work.Since I was a kid, I loved consuming fan art, fan fiction, and creating my own OCs but never had the guts to do anything with my interests. I still have some OC art work from my childhood.With Yara and her world, the story I've called Whispering Tides, started off as a bit of self indulgence story inspired as a ship to Jin Kamurai, but it became so much more to me. In many ways, she carries a part of me, my dreams, my aspirations, my hobbies, my thoughts about the world (seen and unseen). Creating this project and the website that I created all graphics to, building an interactive website to explore the lore that I've written, was somewhat of escapism to me, soft and shielding me from the real world. And that's the truth of the project and what it's become — it is something that makes me feel alive and human as I create it.I hope if you've stumbled across it, you see my heart in it, even if it is art that is born of another serialized piece of work.You can visit the website I created below to see her interactive room, lore and fanon to the Tokyo Debunker world, and read a little bit of the visual novel I created. Everything visually you've see there (apart from the Frostheim and Darkwick logos) are artworks I've drawn.Enjoy your time deep in Yara's ocean.
