Sweet Apple Acres is Making Me Nuts

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I'm trying to draw a picture of Sweet Apple Acres and it's making me NUTS.

In principle it's a pretty simply building to draw as it's a simple set of geometry that vectors quite easily. Then you get to the decorative vines. I just can't seem to get them to flow smoothly. I've tried vectoring them in Ink Scape, and Clip Studio, I've even tried drawing them freehand, but I just can't get them to look right. When I try to make them curl round I either make them too big or too small, or they go wrong at the vector nodes and don't sweep around smoothly.

It's even more frustrating as they aren't all the same thickness. They get thicker in places and thinner in others.

I've even tried using the pressure setting on my table to change the thickness, but I still can't find the perfect setting and am having to manually correct it in places. It really shouldn't take this long to draw a few swirls. I guess that it shows that I still have a lot of basic things to get to grips with before I can even come close to some of the comic creators and MLP artists that I admire. Mad Munchkin wouldn't have done this in about a dozen strokes, and Pony Bezerker would have done it in 10 minutes, and put in a toilet paper joke at the end.
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Solution:

:icontwilightswhatplz::iconsaysplz:Hey, Applejack. What happened to the decorations around your house?:iconsays-endplz:

:iconapplejackreally::iconsaysplz:Termites happened, Twi. Darn termites happened..:iconsays-endplz: