Give it the GREEN FLAG!
I love VECTOR drawing! So this was basically done by building one shape/layer of color over another to create shadows and depth (lots and lots and lots of nodes!) To be honest, this took me days (literally)! I could only work on it an hour or so at a time to get all the detail and then I was exhausted! I need to work on my stamina, I suppose :D I used a photograph from a book, Pocket Eyewitness to HORSES, as my inspiration. Oh, and sorry - there should be more backdrops but I kept forgetting to duplicate every time I added or changed...so missed a few steps. I tend to do that. :)