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Nirvana for me is a tool that takes my really sloppy sketches and writing and converts it to something that looks like an actual sketch artist drew it. Maybe pick different styles. No idea how one would go about doing that though.

(TBH, it would probably be a case of it being better to just hire an artist.)

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Do people still use dribbble? If you can find a style there you like I'm willing to bet it would be more affordable than you'd think.

I've always been surprised by the affordability of one-off graphic requests like these.

I'm not surprised. And I have a couple people at work who I could always ask for a favor for a given project. There's just a certain amount of friction with bringing a person in; it's not so much about the cost.

Some of these tools do exactly that. I draw my gross arcs, lines, ovals, rectangles and it renders much nicer ones, that feels like someone with way better motor skills had drawn it. I know Freehand does that.

I should probably look again. When I went through various tablet tools a few years back I didn't see anything that really did it for me. But I should probably take another look.

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