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I'm afraid to count how many icons I've done by now, for myself and as commissions, and I've really honed the method that works best for me. Of course it'll be different for everyone, BUT FOR ME:

- I sketch at 500x500, just a general bust shot, with no mind for how it'll be cropped. I sketch each head on a different layer until all my intended icons are sketched out.
- I resize the entire thing to 1200 (or 800 is the new size I've been going to — the specific size doesn't really matter)
- Ink, color, etc.
- Add a background color beneath all of them, whichever works well with the skintone/hair. Sometimes include a few round gradients of a slightly lighter/darker color.
- Resize all of them to 400/500 and save all of the layers as my "big" pngs.
- Open all of those saved pngs, ctrl-A, ctrl-V into a 100x100 canvas, ctrl-T and hold shift to shrink it into whatever crop looks best.
- ctrl-J to make a new layer, sharpen that, and then change the opacity until it looks shaper but not terrible.
- Save for web for the icon size!

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