As the title of this publication says this illustration is the first digital work for which I received a payment, for those who do not know I am Venezuelan by birth and I still live in this great country but unfortunately goes through a serious economic crisis, So much so that a minimum wage can not cover the costs of living and in my current job as a teacher of a drawing class for children in an art school my salary is usually below minimum, that was the reason for using the creativity and look for other ways to earn extra income. And thanks to a colleague at work, this opportunity arose, as I mentioned earlier because of my current financial situation I do not have a digital tablet to illustrate on the computer, but that is not an excuse to stop, so only using my pc's mouse make this order, of which I loved the result and I charged at that time 7 dollars to my partner when I delivered it (in case anyone is interested you already know how much is my current rate)

The drawing that I am asked for is a caricature portrait with a tendency toward anime but with a chef's theme, because it was used as a logo for a pastry that his family plans to inaugurate. The first thing was to get me a reference photo of the model

As I mentioned, I am attached to the old one and I feel more comfortable and efficient drawing on paper. For this reason I made the sketch with a lot of detail in pencil on a letter bond sheet, and since I do not have a scanner I took a photograph of it, to export it to the PC.

Photoshop and Paint to sai are the programs par excellence to illustrate in the computer, but to use it as it is due you need a digitizing table, otherwise they are only image editors. for this reason, I decided to use the Adobe Illustrator program, which works with vectors and not with bitmaps like the previous 2 programs, this makes the use of the mouse more comfortable, in addition to using vectors which allows to scale the image to any size and it never loses definition or becomes pixele.

In the program I put the photo of the sketch as a blocked background layer and in another layer I started to make the lineart or outline with the pen tool.

Once the lineart is completed, in another layer below it, and using the pen tool, apply the solid colors. Also take advantage of changing the color of the contour lines.

In the next step, change the color palette to one more in line with the desired result and start applying the shadows using the pen tool.

Already located the shadows just needed to apply the light and reflections and finalize with the details, to finish the work.