Practice · Africa
Ghana
How to draw the flag of Ghana
The flag of Ghana is a horizontal tricolour of red, yellow and dark green, with a black five-pointed star at the centre. Its official proportions are 3:2.
Colours used
- red —
#ce1126 - yellow —
#fcd116 - dark green —
#006b3f - black —
#000000
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
Ghana belongs to the pan-African tricolours. Red, yellow and green appear again and again; the emblem in the middle is usually what separates them. The others in this group are Lithuania.
How to draw it well
Because the bands run horizontally, the fastest route is one rectangle per band from the top down. Each band is a third of the height, so divide the canvas before you start filling — the most common way to lose points here is drifting proportions, where the top band creeps larger and squeezes the one at the bottom.
The star is small relative to the field, so it contributes less to the score than the background. Place the background first, fill it completely, and only then add the star.
- 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 — Lithuania 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
Ghana 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.