Yep, that's the right word.Honestly, it's very similar to normal vectoring - only slightly easier, because it's almost all fills; with the exception of small things like the mouth, eyelashes, etc., you don't have to worry about stroke widths or making the ends taper right.You trace your initial paths the same way I assume you did with your Rainbow Dash vector (you did use the pen tool, right?).If you're drawing a pencil sketch and then vectoring that, the pen tool is really nice because the paths it makes are easy to tweak - your drawing doesn't have to look finished or even correct before you scan it and start vectoring. For example, I drew this and used it to vector this , my newest submission. Notice how in the pencil sketch, I only drew the barest suggestion of where the hair should go and what it would look like, and I left out her mouth, eyelashes, bowtie, and cutie marks entirely. I did this because I knew these things would be easier to make in Illustrator (use Illustrator or Inkscape, btw) than they would be to sketch. And in the case of the cutie mark, I'd already made a vector of that, and all I had to do was make two copies, paste them in, and then warp and reposition them until they looked right.Also notice how even the lines Isketch were tweaked HEAVILY to get the final product. So yeah, the sketch doesn't have to look perfect.Above all, EXPERIMENT. Experiment with your software's tools as you work (USE ILLUSTRATOR OR INKSCAPE FOR VECTORING, NOT PHOTOSHOP OR ANYTHING ELSE LIKE IT), and experiment with the paths you draw until they look. Don't be afraid to change anything radically, but make a copy of whatever path you're changing before you do. Use Ctrl+C followed by Ctrl+F to copy and paste something in the same spot it was in, btw.