Regardless of your drawing ability and experience, you can produce an illustrated document such as a paper, an article, or a book. This article describes how to produce illustrated documents; how to determine when and where illustrations are needed; how to take action photographs; how to produce line drawings quickly and easily; and how to layout a page that contains both text and illustrations. Using the procedure described in this article, you should be able to produce your own illustrated documents for preliminary or final camera-ready drafts.