Practice · Europe
Belgium
How to draw the flag of Belgium
The flag of Belgium is a vertical tricolour of black, yellow and red. Its official proportions are 3:2.
Colours used
- black —
#000000 - yellow —
#fdda24 - red —
#ef3340
You do not need to match these hex values exactly. Scoring allows a generous margin on shade because nobody remembers the precise navy of a flag; what it does not forgive is putting the right colour in the wrong place.
Flags it gets confused with
Belgium belongs to the vertical tricolours. Ireland and Italy trip up almost everyone: orange versus red on the fly side. The others in this group are France, Italy, Ireland, Romania and Mexico.
How to draw it well
The bands run vertically, which is exactly where people slip: it is easy to draw the right three colours in the right order and still place them as horizontal stripes. Fix the orientation in your head first, then fill from the hoist (left) outwards.
- Fill the whole canvas with the background or the first stripe — an unpainted margin costs you points.
- Lay in the remaining bands with the rectangle tool, keeping the divisions level.
- Add the central detail last, checking its size against the height of the flag.
- Press Check my flag to see your drawing next to the real one.
Where people lose points on this flag
- Drawing a neighbour by mistake — France, Italy and Ireland share this layout.
- Reversing the order of the bands. Half of all lost points on tricolours come from this alone.
- Leaving a white margin around the edge of the canvas. Unpainted area is scored as wrong colour, so fill right to the borders.
Proportions
Belgium flies its flag at 3:2. The drawing canvas is a fixed shape and scoring compares regions rather than absolute measurements, so you do not need to reproduce the ratio exactly; what matters is that the internal divisions land in the right relative places.