"Icon Tracing is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, applying outlines over existing artwork layers; applying existing artwork over the complete icon and using filter effects and layer settings to enhance the icon's details, light sources or shadows; and drawing/coloring over existing artwork and using filters and layer settings to change the appearance of the former to make it look drawn.
It is not considered tracing if you draw by LOOKING at reference images - drawing OVER them IS tracing."
Sorry, But I think there should be an exemption for tracing an icon,
First things first..I did not 100% traced the Icon but I only used it as a base for the Icon I'm making.. If you observed my Icons clearly, it's far different shape from the base Icon that I used.. Tracing is a copy of a drawing, map, or design made by tracing it or a faint or delicate mark or pattern.