Cairo is a library that has a great balance between the simplicity of it's abstractions and the power it gives you. Christoph Reiter has been doing some great

Cairo is a library that has a great balance between the simplicity of it's abstractions and the power it gives you. Christoph Reiter has been doing some great work to revive and update the python bindings. https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/ https://github.com/pygobject/pycairo/ I'd also like to point out Cairo generally has a friendly mailinglist, and is quite a fun library to make graphics with.