doing graphics when you're not an artist

["Jennifer O'Neill" <jennifer -dot- oneill -at- village -dot- uunet -dot- be>]

We need to use more graphics in our manuals. The problem is that the
technical artist already has too much work and there's no budget to get
another. We need line drawings of hardware equipment to show how to assemble
the parts. Myself and my colleague are used to modifying existing graphics
(illustrator and coreldraw) but not drawing from scratch.

I'm wondering how practical it is to take digital photos of the equipment
and then use a software package to trace over the parts of the picture we
want to use. I think Adobe Illustrrator lets you do such tracing but haven't
tried. Any other software that could help us? How do others draw pictures
when you're not an artist?

Cheers,

Jennifer


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