I have recently been using Adobe Illustrator for some drawings. In search for other alternative applications, I found Inkscape . My first try with Inkscape was a rabbit drawing. Then, I want to draw a red panda as it's my other favourite animal XD red panda by jensaru on deviantART To be honest, initially it didn't really turn out to look like red panda: There is definitely something missing... (And this is why you need to a reference pic to double check.) Thoughts: I admit that Adobe Illustrator is still more stable in some functions. I would probably find Inkscape to be discouraging if I didn't have some familiarity of Illustrator. The installation was a little confusing. I use Mac, which the initial first run of the application took awhile . But after that, it starts up fine.