: Creating good looking hand-drawn logos I like to make little logos as a hobby, and I wanted to make a patriotic looking one with and eagle. Not knowing exactly how to create it with a mouse,

@Sent7350415

First off, compliments with the logo. Looks cool.

Second, on to business: Illustrator has a built-in tracing tool you could use.
Just paste the image in and use

Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options...


Tutorial can be found here, or by googling around.

Play around with the settings until you're satisfied with the result. Protip: turn on 'preview' and then set it to 'tracing with outline' to see what you'll be getting.
Once you clicked 'make', don't forget to 'expand' it to create the paths.
Then you can just adjust the paths like you would normally do.

If live tracing isn't working for you, you can always trace it by hand with the pen tool (as stated by Amanda). This is slower and harder, but gives you more control.

Another option would be to use Photoshop's brushes to essentially redraw the image with your mouse/tablet. But the downside would be that you don't have vectors, so scaling isn't going to be as easy.

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@Yeniel278

You can paste the image into Illustrator, then trace it using the tools, starting with the pen tool. This tutorial was enough for me to successfully trace a sketch I was working on:

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