this using a pressure sensitive stylus and an appropriate driver, I find it less natural than using a real pen... so for this cartoon example that's precisely what I used. And a scanner. And David Pilling's Trace application. I scanned in a small sketch drawn using an italic pen (for those thick and thin lines) - just the outline, no colour. Trace converted this into a series of black polygons. I imported this into Draw and applied colour by drawing some rough coloured shapes, deliberately going over into the black, and sending them to the back, behind the black outlines. Although the original drawing was only a couple of inches in size, the new vector file can be enlarged considerably - I produced prints in at least A4 size. Converting text to paths Although there are many fonts available for RISC OS, sometimes using a font without modification can look a little plain - particularly for logos. Draw doesn't provide any facilities for kerning text, so to move the individual letters closer together you need to either input each letter as a separate object, or convert the text to a path, which produces a group of objects which can be manipulated independently. For this logo for Arse Records (a fictional company, of course!) I used the latter method. Because the letters are now ordinary paths, it is possible to change them. I edited each letter to make the text look more distinctive - extending and sharpening the start and end