No one asked for this, but, we thought it could be useful : How we make flags + tips on how we do it
As stated in our pinned post we use krita, canva, arty click colors, color picker online, coolers create a gradient, coolers create a palette, and google for other resources. (We also have a small list of flag resources at the bottom of our pinned post too, and plan on expanding it.)
Krita :
(Its important to note that krita is a desktop/computer program, and does not exist on mobile. We make all our flags on our computer Vantablack.)
Our flags are 3500 x 2000 px
Using the line tool and symmetry tools is a MUST
You will most likely be using the horizontal and vertical symmetry tools for your flags all the time
selection tool is also your friend
if youre making a flag based off an image its always awesome to import the image as a reference on the side
Its smart to put your stripes on different layers
The middle of the symmetry tools turned on can help you center things
Making the resource stripes you use a lower opacity can help with placement
we also use more unique brushes sometimes for flags, such as a rain brush and a star brush for making rain particles and stars (you may have to go out of your way to find them online)
when drawing out the flags, its recommended to use a brush thats size DONT vary based off of how much pressure you put on it (\/ not bulleted because theyre kinda long) When putting in symbols, if you want them to be the opposite color you can just invert the layer. But if you want it to be a specific color or the colors of an image, you can put in the image/color as another layer, select your symbol with the selection tool, go to the color/image layer, invert selection, and erase all thats not selected. You can also do this with other things too. You can right click a layer, go to "layer style" and click "stroke" at the bottom if you want a symbol to have a outline around it. make sure to change it to the size px you want, change it to "normal" and opacity at 100% for a good basic outline. We usually use either 20 px, 10px, or 15px. This is also good for making stickers out of drawings!
How we use stripe resources :
We'd first start with the plain stripes. We would import the resource and center it then stretch it to where it fits the length of the flag width.
Position where you want the stripe to go.
Use the selection tool to select the stripe, and then hide the resourced stripe layer.
Switch to another layer and color in the selected area. Then you can deselect afterwards.
If you want to do the same resource stripe on the opposite side, you can go back to the resource stripe layer and flip it vertically and repeat the steps.
if we need to specify this later we will ^-^ (we were going to include images but we're kind of too lazy to)
Canva :
We have sometimes used Canva to make flags. We actually used the help of Canva to make the naturic flags. We usually use Canva for symbols and stuff, and for better centering and consistency with symbol size. You can also use Canva for adding in text to your flags if needed.
Arty click colors :
We use artyclick to find the names of colors, and thats it. We use it when we want to add a ID to our flags. We'll upload our flags sometimes and select over the individual stripes and colors and will easily get the names of the colors, or at least a close resembling match. Its a way to make ID descriptions more detailed.
Color picker online :
We use this color picker to easy get the color hex code from images, flags, whatever so on and so forth. It can also be helpful outside of flag making too.
Coolers create a gradient :
We'll use this website to make a gradient out of any colors. As many colors as you fucking want. We've also used this to make colored gradients out of our flags for some posts.
Additionally, you can use the create a gradient palette to make a color palette out of two colors.
Coolers create a palette :
This is excellent for making even stripes. if you cant manually draw them out with the line tool or are just too lazy to draw the stripes out yourself this is recommended.
When youre done making a palette with the stripes you can just save the palette and import it into your flag file and resize it and add it in from there. boom.
Hopefully this helped in any way ^-^ reblogs are heavily appreciated!
-Natasha/Angel