Rediculously-Simple Tutorial Ahead! Joy!

Hokay.  Figured I should do something productive with my time here instead of leeching mercilessly off the community.  Sooo while inanely bored and severely nostalgic, I decided to make an icon - that of the lovable loon Batty Koda, from the Hippy-Faerie-Granola-Munching-Funtime movie, Ferngully.  This is my first icon tutorial (a simple one at that) - so any and all un-nice criticisim should be aimed at my head.  :D  Tutorial uses Photoshop 7.0, though it should be cinch to convert it to PSP and GIMP.

go from zees:
to zees!: 

Oooohhh...!  Aaahhhh! 
*ahem*  Moving on.

( ALL I WANTED WAS A PEPSI! JUST ONE PEPSI! AND SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IT TO ME! )

Fake cut like whoa - posted at my icon journal - peeping_doom