below is v60 as of this post, I’ll also park a more current working file here as I go for my own convenience.
I had to switch which computer I was working on this with. As the file grew, Inkscape was proving fairly taxing to system resources and caused freezes and crashes losing work. Lag remains reduced but continued work is starting to cause crashing problems here as well even with the visibility of various elements such as the numerous leaf veins turned off. Frequent iterative file saves are a must.
There’s more to do of course, continuing to replacing all the temp leaves, deciding how tedious I want to get doing the tendrils as I do want to be *somewhat* botanically accurate to the watermelon, reordering stray layers, cleaning up all the line junctions, massaging the colors, and raster export shenanigans.
Power Stroke path effect proved to be the tool I needed for making the vines reasonably pretty. First turn off fill for an open path and then turn on the power stroke path effect, and it’ll provide editable outer stroke contours for your inner stroke which you can now select a fill for.
Select Same is really handy when reworking colors across a composition. Edit > Select Same gives you options for selecting similar stroke color, fill color, stroke styles, combinations thereof, or object types.
