Make lines in Maya 5

[gollum84]

I'm new to Maya and I don't know where all the tools are yet, but I have a very important question that I need answered.... How can I make a simple straight line?!?!?! I've made a robot and now I am beginning to render and color it. All I want to do is to make a simple straight blue line go right across the robots chest, but each time I paint the line, it is always crooked. I've tried holding down shift and dragging the cursor, like in Photoshop or Illustrator, but it still won't paint a straight line. I'm sure a program that I spent a lot of money on could make a straight line, so could someone help me with my dilema?

 

[mindbend]

This forum probably isn't the best place for answering Maya questions. Here's some places I frequent:

http://forums.alias.com/webx?13@@.ef3eac6
http://www.simplymaya.com/
http://www.highend3d.com/
http://www.digital-tutors.com/

I am a Maya novice, so my skills are pretty low. One solution might be to just use a cube primitive and squash it to the point where it looks like a line. Another might be to create your line art in Photoshop and map it onto the robot. I don't know how to constrain the path to a straight line.