: Illustration tools for beginners I'm a software developer and am working on a personal project (website + iphone/ipad app). I need simple illustrations for these to fill in the blanks until the

@Alves566

If you're trying to draw I find Inkscape to be way better than Illustrator because of the Threshold. I've looked and looked in Illustrator for the feature thinking I must be missing it but to my knowledge it doesn't exist. With Threshold turned up drawing is a lot easier in Inkscape. Its also free so worth at least looking at.

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@Megan533

It sounds like you may want to look at wireframing tools instead of "Illustration" tools. This article has a list of tools for both apps and web (I've heard good things about Pencil Project but have not used it myself) that you can use to put stuff in place and help you build the UI.

Beware the "quick icons until I hire a designer" approach; you end up continuing to use those same icons a lot longer than you originally plan to since I've found that developers tend to push the UI part onto the back burner for more back end functionality (sorry - not meant as a slam but there's only so many hours in a day, particularly if you're doing this as a side project).

If you really must, you could probably use something like the Gimp to create bitmap icons.

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