Tutorial-kinda-thing

I'm not visiting this community often, but I saw that people keep asking for tutorials on my icons, and I made one recently but didn't post it in here.

Anyways, the tut has a lot of general tips and things I do with my icons and I hope it will be useful to someone, but I have to warn you...it's very very long and probably confusing.

The result could be something like this:



And the picture at the beginning looks like this:

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She's all alone. Makes you think, if I went missing..would anyone notice I was gone?