Alyssa Alarcón Santo is a Los Angeles raised, Portland based Chicana illustrator and graphic designer.
Though she started her career as a portrait and advertising photographer, her love for typography and comic books led her to study illustration at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Since then, she has worked as a designer with brands on both coasts, scored some international comic publications, and grew into herself as an illustrator and book designer.
She spends her time drinking black coffee and dreaming up new projects with her husband (while still not sleeping very much).
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Medium: Fine art print on watercolor paper of digital illustration
Featured in: “Summer Solstice” at Good Bug Studio in Portland, OR. (June 2025)
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Medium: Calligraphy tools, Adobe Illustrator. Plywood, mixed media, Cricut and vinyl
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Medium: Craft foam (shaped with heat gun and hot knife), acrylic paint, beading cord, pendant light fixture
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Medium: Four color block print on Arches 88 printmaking paper
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Description: Cozy yeti encounters an early morning coffee drinker
Artist: Alyssa Alarcón Santo
Medium: hand-cut balsa wood, Posca markers, microns, custom-built shadowbox

