Only because I think I'd better post something semi-artistic. I'm not a pro, I don't claim this is good:
I made this by importing a photo my wife took of one of the frogs that lives in the pond in our backyard as a vector image object. I then created another layer in front of it and started tracing the photo with the B-Spline tool in order to get an approximation of the shades (generally No Stroke and with a simple color fill). I did that for the eyes, the top of the head, and the bottom of the head.
I went back to add a couple hilites, specifically on the eye, the nose, the 'lips' (frogs got lips?), then later near the eye. After that I went back and added the spots.
The eyes, top, and bottom of the head are all shapes with No Stroke and a fill color, the hilites are all done with variations of Skeletal Strokes, mostly "pointed leaf", "perfect felt", and "scribble" which are in the Ink category in the Acrylic Beta. Oh right the color around the eye, simple strokes I think both are the perfect felt stroke.
The initial tracings were all pretty awful but I used the Node Tool to adjust afterwards. All in all it was pretty painless and the results are much better than I'd expect given my lack of artistic skills.
The XPR file itself still has both layers (including the original photo) with the photo's layer hidden. I could theoretically fill out the rest of the frog but I think I'll be content with the success I've had.
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