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Turkey
How to draw the flag of Turkey
The flag of Turkey is a red field with a white crescent opening towards the fly and a white five-pointed star just beyond its tips.
Colours used
- red —
#e30a17 - white —
#ffffff
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
Turkey belongs to the crescent-and-star flags. Check which side the crescent opens towards and whether the field is split before you draw. The others in this group are Pakistan, Algeria, Tunisia and Malaysia.
How to draw it well
Draw the crescent as a filled disc first, then take a second, slightly smaller disc out of it with the fill or eraser — that gives you clean horns. A crescent drawn as a thick banana shape is the usual reason this flag scores lower than it should.
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 — Pakistan, Algeria and Tunisia share this layout.
- Leaving a white margin around the edge of the canvas. Unpainted area is scored as wrong colour, so fill right to the borders.
Proportions
Turkey 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.