🎨 Redraw
The basics
You get the country name, a palette, a brush size slider and one peek. Peek shows the real flag for two seconds, and you can only use it once.
The toolbar under the canvas has undo, redo and clear, plus a colour wheel for anything the preset palette does not cover and an eyedropper for matching a colour you have already used.
How the score works
The comparison samples your canvas against the real flag and rewards two things at once: covering the areas that should be coloured, and not colouring the areas that should not be.
That means both leaving the flag half empty and scribbling outside the shapes hurt you. Big flat areas of roughly the right colour in roughly the right place score much better than careful detail in the wrong place.
Blocks before details
Start with the largest field of colour and fill it properly with the biggest brush. Then add the second largest. Only add emblems, stars or crests if you have time and space left.
A tricolour drawn as three clean bands will beat the same tricolour drawn with a beautiful central emblem and thin, patchy stripes.
A worked drawing
The flag is Japan. The temptation is to draw the circle first because it is the memorable part. Do not.
The white field is most of the flag's area, and it is already white, so you leave it alone. Then place one red circle in the centre at roughly the right size. Two decisions, high score. If you had instead drawn a small circle in the corner and shaded the background off white, you would have lost points on both halves of the comparison.
Tips worth remembering
- Save the peek until you are genuinely stuck. Two seconds goes quickly.
- Match the proportions of the bands before you worry about the exact shade.
- Use the eyedropper to reuse a colour rather than eyeballing it twice.
- Leave white areas alone rather than painting them white. Less work, same result.