If you haven't the foggiest clue where to start, pick up Teach Yourself CorelDraw 9 in 24 Hours. Then this is a great book to get you up to speed quickly and painlessly. The author will guide you through the process of creating illustrations in Draw. 1-hour lessons packed with valuable training.
Lessons build on each other.
By page 15 you are already using the tools, it's just drawing a line, but hey, you've got to start somewhere. There are short quizzes at the end of each chapter so you can test your own understanding. Then you'll get into curves, text, and artistic test. By the end of chapter 3 you will have created a magazine cover with a rectangle, pie, graph pager, star, spiral and artistic text. Section II, hours 4-7, you'll start with page layout, objects, outlines, fill and color.