diff --git a/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx b/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
index 192fb0a2..94abe627 100644
--- a/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
+++ b/skimage/draw/_draw.pyx
@@ -112,6 +112,26 @@ def polygon(y, x, shape=None):
         May be used to directly index into an array, e.g.
         ``img[rr, cc] = 1``.
 
+    Examples
+    --------
+    >>> from skimage.draw import polygon
+    >>> img = np.zeros((10, 10), dtype=np.uint8)
+    >>> x = np.array([1, 7, 4, 1])
+    >>> y = np.array([1, 2, 8, 1])
+    >>> rr, cc = polygon(y, x)
+    >>> img[rr, cc] = 1
+    >>> img
+    array([[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
+           [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]], dtype=uint8)
+
     """
 
     cdef Py_ssize_t nr_verts = x.shape[0]