Google, is your friend that's all I'm going to say.

no I just want to know how you trace round thats all I don't want how you do every little detail I don't want to copy you at all. I just really want to beable to render

Like I said, I can't explain all of it, and I'm reluctant to tell people what I know because they usually end up copying my style.

I don't want to make it paint friendly incase people steal it

k but I just don't get it at all as you do it so well Sierra! I would always love to eable to render like you as you can do it really really well! But how do you do it it's amazing how you do it?

Well, just get a Spirit screenshot, open it on GIMP, then create a new layer. (MAKE SURE THE NEW LAYER IS TRANSPARENT, OR EVERYTHING WILL BE RUINED!!) Outline in PENCIL what you want rendered, than colour it what you want. All of that has to be done on the layer you created, which is called 'Render', or whatever you named it. To make it paint friendly, save it as PNG, but before you do that, make it smaller so SS wont resize it and make in non paint friendly. Of course this is not the only way, like Sierra said, there is lots of touritals on Google.

Google is your friend, there are many tutorials. I don't know how to explain the whole process personally I'm sorry, just keep searching. Also, the pencil tool is paint friendly.