Did you ever want to draw vector grafics and very fast, but just didn't know how? Well I have a solution for you. Using only the pencil tool in SwishMax you can draw the outline of a character of an object and then play with colours.
Try this. Import an image you want to vectorize in swishMax. Now rezise that image to 1000%. Using the pencil tool, draw carefully the margins of the object. After finished tracing that image, select all the shapes, group them into one group (or sprite) and resize to 10% or smaller. You have the result of a very nice trace, like in the image below (remeber this is for newbies to try to get accomodate with vector drawing and pencil drawing)