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Greetings. I'm making a comic for the 1st time and am using Inkscape. My problem is, on paper I'm way, way faster than with a vector drawing program (even when using a Wacom tablet) mainly because I find it difficult to draw shapes with 1 stroke and instead have to spend a lot of time joining multiple strokes into solid shapes.
Is there some features or plugins in Adobe Illustrator that can make this much faster? Or are there other drawing methods that would be much faster ?
I've attached examples of what I want to be done automatically.
The 1st case shouldn't be hard. The 2nd case of dealing with emergent shapes seems to be very difficult for a computer. I also have plenty of programming knowlege, so I would be glad to make a plugin to do this if someone can point me to the right idea.

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