Depends on the symbolism you're going for. I think option 4 is the most straightforward but the bottom stripe might merge with a white background, depending on how your game is presented. Option 3 works on all backgrounds but the yellow is too bright.I am working on some flags for a game that I am a part of. If you haven't heard of it it is called This Spectred Isle. It is absolutely great! I would like to know which one of these flags is most appealing to you. If none of them are or you want to suggest something; I am more than welcome to constructive criticism.
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They all reference and are influenced by the mission insignias of the respective space missions of their namesakes.oh these rule! what's the symbolism of each?
It is on Alternate History so the white will show up. Thank you for telling me about the yellow too. I will change that.Depends on the symbolism you're going for. I think option 4 is the most straightforward but the bottom stripe might merge with a white background, depending on how your game is presented. Option 3 works on all backgrounds but the yellow is too bright.
I do indeed. That is why I put it there. Sorry, should have clarified. In fact, I will edit my post and put it on there.You know the Belarusian variant is already the opposition (and also former) flag of Belarus, yes?
I do indeed. That is why I put it there. Sorry, should have clarified. In fact, I will edit my post and put it on there.
I cannot say for certain if you are right or wrong. I know the Russian peace flag was invented by two Russian digital artists who had no connection with the Belarusian opposition. However, they may or may not have been inspired by the flag, though their stated reason was simply to remove the red part of the flag which they saw as a symbol of Russia's Imperial past.My point is mostly that your post seemingly presented the Russian Peace Flag as the originator of this style, when it was likely inspired by the White-Red-White Belarusian flag.
Oh my gosh! I didn't know about that rule. I am sorry. That is totally my bad. But I will keep that in mind for the future. I have deleted the posts for now anyways. I will admit that the flags were a little lazy and put together haphazardly, so I maybe would have just deleted them on my own time. But thank you for your advice--I will heed it in the future.Btw, do keep in mind the 3 images per day per thread limit.
I don't really mind it, and won't report you, but the mods do dislike it.
Cool emblem with the eagle landing on the Moon, did you do it by yourself?I made a few flags for American settlements on the Moon
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I traced over the original Apollo 11 insignia it looked terrible just trying to scale it done so tracing it and filling it in made it look a lot better.Cool emblem with the eagle landing on the Moon, did you do it by yourself?
I made a few flags for American settlements on the Moon
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Flag of Aldrin
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Flag of Shepard
While Iran has always been the center of my personal historical fascination, Iraq has also been on my horizon. Mesopotamia stands at the crossroads of Europe, the Caucasus, and the rest of Asia. It's an area that has seen dramatic highs and lows--from the Birth of Civilization--to the many, many times Mesopotamia has been conquered by outside empires (e.g., The Achaemenids, Alexander the Great, The Romans, the Sassanids, the Seljuks the Mongols, the Ottomans, the Safavids, British, and recently, the United States, and many more)--from the Islamic Golden Age, which turned Baghdad into the greatest city in the world, to the Mongol Conquest and Baghdad's subsequent fall from grace. History, it seems, has been one big roller-coaster ride for this region that has never really stopped. Arguably, there are few better places in the world for an archaeologist or a historian to be. The palaces we see today sit on top of the palaces of countless other empires that lie beneath the substratum. The poem "Ozymandias" comes to mind.
Truth be told, Mesopotamia and Iraq have not recovered their influence from the time of the Golden Age. The Iraq of today is sandwiched between a cacaphony of violence--from war-torn Syria, to the recent ISIL Crisis, to it's hungry and powerful neighbors, Iran and Turkey. A delicate tight-rope must be walked, and good leadership must be put in place if Iraq is to survive the coming decades without getting scorched--again.
While I don't mind the two Arab national flags--the OG, exemplified by Jordan, and the Arab Liberation Flag used by Egypt, Yemen, Syria, and Iraq, they can be rather plain, so I added the traditional side-triangle (what is it called again?) of Arab flags to Iraq's, making it green to symbolize the southern, swampy lowlands of Mesoptamia and the Shatt-al-Arab. I also added two dividing lines between the Red-White-Black tricolor to symbolize the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the lifeblood of Iraq. The green also symbolizes Islam.
While the Kufic script version of "God is Great" on the front of the current-day Iraq flag is indeed striking, it is also symbolic of the days of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, when Saddam Hussein scribbled the words onto the flag (albeit, in a slightly different form) to inspire his troops to fight back against the U.S. Forces. Though one should never forget war and it's consequences, it's probably for the best if Iraq forgets Saddam. So I got rid of the words on the flag. Finally, I added a star of Ishtar, a traditional symbol of both the Goddess and the Neo-Babylonian Empire, the strongest pre-Islamic state based in Iraq, and emblematic of Mesopotamia's great and storied history.
"Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command...yet survive, stamped upon these lifeless things." --Percy Bysshe Shelly
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It's a chevron.the traditional side-triangle (what is it called again?)
This is genius right here. It's so simple, yet manages to be emblematic of the past and present, carrying the colors of the EU and old Austria as well as old France and Old Germany. Job well done, sir, job well done.Flag of Carolingia