Okay, I cannot find the original icon file or the texture, so I'll just have to wing it. I do remember thinking that this icon was a lot simpler to make than the end result makes it look, so this isn't going to be super long.
There are three basic components: the full-body shot of Parker, the silhouette profile, and the background texture.
The prompt was "two-tone & full body", meaning I had to use at least one full body image and two colours. I started by looking at full body screencaps. My go-to fandom is Leverage, so I eventually picked a cap of Parker from The Girls Night Out Job where she wears a lovely gold dress. I started by cropping the image (I usually crop to 100x100 straight away - I can always make it smaller later, and the smaller the size, the less I have to erase from the image) and colouring it to my liking. Then I erased the background until I only had Parker's body left. That took care of the first step.
I have no idea where I found the texture - I'm almost sure it was an example texture for some other challenge around the same time, but I honestly don't remember and I can't find it again. I do know that I picked it because it fit the "two-tone" part of the prompt, being shades of gold like Parker (her dress and her hair and her skin). That sorted out step 3.
I added the texture as the background and thought: that is not enough contrast. I felt like the full body image of Parker didn't really stand out enough. She pretty much disappeared inside the texture. Plus, I still needed a second colour for my two-tone icon, and I decided it needed to be a darker colour in order to make the gold (and Parker) stand out more and the one with the most contrast was black. I played around with various shapes first - a rectangle (didn't look good), a broad vertical stripe behind Parker (clashed with the horizontal stripe of the texture, no matter at what angle I put it), a black circle (added yet another geometric shape but looked a little odd on its own). Eventually - I can't remember how - I thought maybe it needed to be an irregular shape and immediately thought "it could be ANOTHER PARKER!" (You can never have enough Parker in an icon or your life. *g*)
So step two was me trawling for screencaps that showed Parker in profile (to make her recognizable because from the front or back she looks a lot like other long-haired women). I don't remember the exact cap I used, but from the collar it looks like it was FBIAgent!Parker. I cropped the image, used the pen tool to colour every part of Parker black and then erased everything that wasn't black. I pasted this image between the texture and the full-body image.
And that was it.
EDIT: If you want me to, I could write up a proper follow-along tutorial with screencaps and whatnot, but it wouldn't be the same icon since I can't find the texture.
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There are three basic components: the full-body shot of Parker, the silhouette profile, and the background texture.
The prompt was "two-tone & full body", meaning I had to use at least one full body image and two colours. I started by looking at full body screencaps. My go-to fandom is Leverage, so I eventually picked a cap of Parker from The Girls Night Out Job where she wears a lovely gold dress. I started by cropping the image (I usually crop to 100x100 straight away - I can always make it smaller later, and the smaller the size, the less I have to erase from the image) and colouring it to my liking. Then I erased the background until I only had Parker's body left. That took care of the first step.
I have no idea where I found the texture - I'm almost sure it was an example texture for some other challenge around the same time, but I honestly don't remember and I can't find it again. I do know that I picked it because it fit the "two-tone" part of the prompt, being shades of gold like Parker (her dress and her hair and her skin). That sorted out step 3.
I added the texture as the background and thought: that is not enough contrast. I felt like the full body image of Parker didn't really stand out enough. She pretty much disappeared inside the texture. Plus, I still needed a second colour for my two-tone icon, and I decided it needed to be a darker colour in order to make the gold (and Parker) stand out more and the one with the most contrast was black. I played around with various shapes first - a rectangle (didn't look good), a broad vertical stripe behind Parker (clashed with the horizontal stripe of the texture, no matter at what angle I put it), a black circle (added yet another geometric shape but looked a little odd on its own). Eventually - I can't remember how - I thought maybe it needed to be an irregular shape and immediately thought "it could be ANOTHER PARKER!" (You can never have enough Parker in an icon or your life. *g*)
So step two was me trawling for screencaps that showed Parker in profile (to make her recognizable because from the front or back she looks a lot like other long-haired women). I don't remember the exact cap I used, but from the collar it looks like it was FBIAgent!Parker. I cropped the image, used the pen tool to colour every part of Parker black and then erased everything that wasn't black. I pasted this image between the texture and the full-body image.
And that was it.
EDIT: If you want me to, I could write up a proper follow-along tutorial with screencaps and whatnot, but it wouldn't be the same icon since I can't find the texture.