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First, the queen....normally!
Combined different pieces of the marker, used warp, resize, rotate, flip to get better shapes.

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Also, desaturated it.
Placed one pawn and then copy/paste it multiple times to get more pawns.

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Colored it slightly using hue/saturation and filter/sepia.
Softened edges.

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