That's an excellent idea. It seems to accomplish my goal fairly painlessly. What I've been doing with any major path is to create a "stem" path with unlinked properties on its own layer. Then I clone it once for the regular fill path on a layer above it. Once I've drawn my first shadow or ...

I've done a little 3D work and wanted to learn vector art. Inkscape caught my attention, and I've been having fun learning the program. I guess I'm pretty proud of my first serious "self-tutorial" using a lot of different methods to model a cartoon character. I worked out a lot of little s...