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This here had "Challenge accepted" written all over it, and by the time I got partway through Cadence I came to regret that decision to try this.

Compared to the last time I vectored Shining Armor facing forward like this, I wanted to draw his limbs but keep them independent and preserve their editability, rather than making them share part of the same shape or stroke as the rest of his torso and other limbs, and I guess I achieved that by doing that little mutual clippy trick thing (but keeping the legs' fills on a separate group so that there's no extra anti-aliasing from the clippy magic). That way, I was also able to make shapes like his head and body actually use stroked ellipses rather than oval paths, which I tried just for kicks at first but found to actually work in my favor. That smug expression on him may as well be the expression I had when I was about done with him, but that's honestly to be expected at this point really. It was also because of this that I was also able to do a version of him with both of his legs on the ground and by himself as though he were hugging no one and was solo, just as a little fun side-thing to try.

To date, this is the first time I've done a full-body vector of Cadence after two previous bust-type vectors, but obviously it was a notch harder with bits of Shining hiding parts of her, and things just being hidden from facing frontal this way as opposed to the more-conventional "three quarter" angle that's more common (which I need to try eventually). Thus, she was a bit more tedious to do as I'm not exactly used to vectoring her, and had to learn not just how to vector her but to do it in a way that looks neat not just in raster form but also in case someone were to look at the actual source vector file and break it down (and be as you'd say, "editable" later), but that's just flavor text and rambling at this point really. I embarrassingly only did the upper portion of her mane which goes behind the rest of her torso at first, believing the lower part to actually be part of her tail when it in fact wasn't. Vectoring against the reference, I noticed it was shifted to the left a bit if you follow the line of her mane as it goes down her left shoulder, probably as it'd otherwise layer over Shining's body, but I shifted it back so it'd line up with the rest of her left-back mane and moved it down the layering scheme accordingly.

The end result is...this. I hope you like it!

Time:
: 4 hours, : 6 hours

SVGZ file | Reference Screenshot | Cadence Solo / Shining Solo

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Description
This here had "Challenge accepted" written all over it, and by the time I got partway through Cadence I came to regret that decision to try this.

Compared to the last time I vectored Shining Armor facing forward like this, I wanted to draw his limbs but keep them independent and preserve their editability, rather than making them share part of the same shape or stroke as the rest of his torso and other limbs, and I guess I achieved that by doing that little mutual clippy trick thing (but keeping the legs' fills on a separate group so that there's no extra anti-aliasing from the clippy magic). That way, I was also able to make shapes like his head and body actually use stroked ellipses rather than oval paths, which I tried just for kicks at first but found to actually work in my favor. That smug expression on him may as well be the expression I had when I was about done with him, but that's honestly to be expected at this point really. It was also because of this that I was also able to do a version of him with both of his legs on the ground and by himself as though he were hugging no one and was solo, just as a little fun side-thing to try.

To date, this is the first time I've done a full-body vector of Cadence after two previous bust-type vectors, but obviously it was a notch harder with bits of Shining hiding parts of her, and things just being hidden from facing frontal this way as opposed to the more-conventional "three quarter" angle that's more common (which I need to try eventually). Thus, she was a bit more tedious to do as I'm not exactly used to vectoring her, and had to learn not just how to vector her but to do it in a way that looks neat not just in raster form but also in case someone were to look at the actual source vector file and break it down (and be as you'd say, "editable" later), but that's just flavor text and rambling at this point really. I embarrassingly only did the upper portion of her mane which goes behind the rest of her torso at first, believing the lower part to actually be part of her tail when it in fact wasn't. Vectoring against the reference, I noticed it was shifted to the left a bit if you follow the line of her mane as it goes down her left shoulder, probably as it'd otherwise layer over Shining's body, but I shifted it back so it'd line up with the rest of her left-back mane and moved it down the layering scheme accordingly.

The end result is...this. I hope you like it!

Time:
: 4 hours, : 6 hours

SVGZ file | Reference Screenshot | Cadence Solo / Shining Solo

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