hiii i love your flags so much i was wondering how you come up with the designs? i want to coin genders and such but i feel like every flag i come up with is really bland and i LOVE how you do yours
thank you !! first time anyones said anything like that.. :] the designs? well, its a bit of a complicated process to explain how we think but we can try our best and we'll give some tips. we have some years of experience (since 2022) for flag making so hopefully something here will help. here comes the wall of text
dont be afraid to go wacky go wild with your flags. like really. they dont all need to follow the "traditional" means of pride flags. you can add vertical lines, spikes, waves, triangles, squares, etc.
if we're making a flag based off of something like a picture or character we try to color pick from an image of it
SYMBOLS!!! we LOVE adding symbols to our flags.. either we look up "_ transparent background" or an image of a symbol we think will go great with a flag and manually crop out the background ourselves
we also sometimes just straight up add pictures too!
making a monochrome template version of a flag works whenever we make a series of flags based under one thing
oh yes yes colors are a big part of the flag making process- we love to use darker colors but thats just us. colors are a massive part of the process. looking at color schemes helps. complementary, analogous, split complementary, etc.
when you go to make it based off of something, like a concept, feeling, animal, etc. think- "what colors are this thing or what colors does this give off"? ex. whenever we made those angelian flags we made them based off of the colors we associate with the seasons (although we didnt do a very good job at it!)
dont know if this is really related but its smarter to come up with a name and definition for your term first before making a flag for it, you get better outcomes since you now have a base and prompt in mind when youre making your flag
also unrelated but we use krita (desktop drawing program) and photopea for our flags! we have a link to resources we use on our pinned but we havent updated it to how we use photopea for it yet though, but we might make a separate post for that soon
uhh other than that thats pretty much all we can think of.. honestly we've been making flags so long that its really kind of hard to describe how we do it. like our thought process. once you start getting into rhythm of making flags and stuff it starts to feel natural. its like that whole finding your own art style thing as an artist- because we're an artist too and that also influences us too.
also.. we dont do it too often, but. sometimes we have to make sketches before starting a flag. its REALLY rare of us to do since we barely need to do it like heres this shitty sketch we drew with our mouse for our angelian labels! you can barely tell what its supposed to be but we used it as a guideline when making those flags
-Natasha/Angel and Alpha Guardian