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Drawing Country Flags From Memory
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May 12, 2025
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Drawing flags from memory. This wheel contains every country on earth, so let's spin it and
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whatever flag we land on, I have to draw from memory. I used to do this series a lot back in
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the day. It's been over a year since the last episode. What's our first country? New Zealand
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Ah, it's showing me the flag. All right, we're going again. Sorry, New Zealand. Which country
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are we drawing first? It is... Ooh, Mauritius. Ooh, okay. It's quite a tricky one to begin with, but we will give it a go. Let's
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see what happens. So the way I learned the Mauritian flag was I used to say delicious
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Mauritius. And the reason I would say that is because I thought of it as like four or five
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chocolate bars on top of each other. Now, in reality, it doesn't actually look like four or
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five chocolate bars on top of each other, but instead it's four or five rectangles
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of different colors on top of each other. So that's what I'm gonna go for here
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I think it's four rather than five. That looks like quite a few. Now, can I actually remember what the colors are
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No way, Jose, but I can kind of just try a few different ones
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and see if we get something that feels kind of right. Definitely gonna be blue in there
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Oh, this is not looking good at all. Let's go a darker blue at the bottom
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Then let's go gold instead of this kind of ugly yellow. red and then green. You would assume it's going to be those four colors, but I don't know what
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the order is. Let's try green there and red on top. Hmm, that actually feels a bit closer. What
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about yellow at the bottom and then blue there? Yeah, I actually don't mind that. Now, we've also
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got the black lines, which shouldn't be there, but it's such a pain to try and get rid of them that
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I'm going to leave them. Let's just pretend they're not there. All right, computer, please reveal the
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actual Mauritian flag. Oh, it's close. It's close. I've got all of the right colors as predicted
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but they are in the wrong place. Red I got correct, but blue was supposed to be there
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Yellow was supposed to be underneath. And then the bottom one was meant to be green. Yeah
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that makes sense. Okay, but either way, this is what I went with. Let's give myself half a point
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to begin with. We got the look of the flag. We got the right colors, but they were in the wrong place. All right, let's spin again. Do you know what? This is fun. I can't believe it's been over
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a year since the last episode, but I do really enjoy this. Right, what are we going to have next
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It is Burundi. Ah, so we've had back-to-back African flags and quite tricky ones as well
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Can we bring New Zealand back, please? Never mind. All right, Burundi. Oh, no
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Um, so I might end up drawing the complete wrong flag here
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but I believe it is pretty much green background. Oh, no, I think I'm thinking green and yellow, but I can't work out exactly where
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Is it the one where there's like, oh, what are they? Are they three stars or something
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I'm gonna try something like this. Uh, oh no, this is gonna go horribly wrong
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As I said, I feel like I'm doing the wrong flag here. I mean, I've not scented it particularly nicely either
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Is there a diamond in the background or something? Yeah, there might be like a red diamond
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Hmm, yeah, does this look good? Is this what I'm going for? I think so
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Let's put the red diamond first. All right, so I like that, filled in red
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then bring back the yellow stars. Yellow star, oh, this is definitely not right, is it
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Wait, wait, wait, maybe the diamond is yellow and the stars are red. That could maybe work. I like the sound of that. Okay, so we do this
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we do this, and then we do this. Hmm, I don't think this is right. I'm curious though. Am I at all
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close? I'm gonna have to just submit that one and hope for the best. All right, computer, please
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reveal the actual Burundi flag. Okay, you can see what I was going for. So there's actually no yellow
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at all. Right, interesting. There is the three stars, and I have got them in the correct place
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They're the wrong type of star. It's more like this kind of star. You can see where I got the
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diamond angles from in my brain, but they're actually effectively four triangles. I'm going
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to give myself no points for this one. I know I did have three stars in kind of the correct spot
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but I don't think overall it is anywhere close. But hey, it's a tricky one. Burundi. I don't think
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that many people out there can draw the Burundi flag entirely from memory, and I am one of those
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apparently. Next country is Zambia. We have had three African countries in a row. Oh, and it's
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another difficult one because I don't know whether to draw Zambia or Zimbabwe. I always get them
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mixed up. I think it's heavy green. We've got a lot of greenage, so let's do the greenage to begin
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with All right green Yes And then oh no Is it like um something like this I feel yeah It like that Oh that can be right Is it red No We leave it as yellow for now And then there an eagle here Am I thinking of the right thing How do I draw the
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eagle as well? I've literally no idea. I'm worried I'm going to get this completely wrong. I'm
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I'm combining Zambia and Zimbabwe. Is it black and yellow? I think it might be black and yellow
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Let me try that. Yeah, I think that looks more right. Maybe and now I need to draw an eagle
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I can't think what the eagle looks like. I'm gonna just do some wings on either side like this and then
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Yeah, like that and then we'll get like a beak Wow, great eagle jack. You're a pretty good drawer to be fair
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Give him some little legs porking out as well. So it's not necessarily what the eagle looks like
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It's what the eagle represents. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah a bit of that
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Um, let's do a nice darker brown as well. Let's get a bit fancy with it
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We'll get some like shading on the go. Wow. Is this gonna be anything close
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I have literally no idea. I'm really intrigued by this. That's what we're submitting. I guess computer please reveal the zambian flag
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Okay, okay Actually not that bad. I'd say my eagle is surprisingly good. The wings are going the wrong way
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but it's kind of right. The green is also entirely correct. We did also get a yellow and a black
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but I was missing a bit of red. We should have had like red in this section. I think we give
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ourselves half a point. If anything, I nearly deserve a 70%, but we're going to just be
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conservative. We're going to stick to half a point there. Genuinely, I'm quite happy with that. I think
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we did okay. So let's undo it and let's go ahead and spin the wheel again. Okay. Can we have a
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country that is not in Africa this time? Three in a row is kind of crazy. All right, where have we
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got. It is Portugal. Okay. Right. Portugal should be a full point, right? And obviously I'm not
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going to get the emblem right, but I'm going to get kind of close to the emblem. Okay. So I think
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it's red on this side and then green on this side. Does that look right? Kind of not. Is it green on
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this side and red on this side? Oh no. I think it's red on this side. Is it yellow? No. It's red
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and it's green and then the emblem's a lot of yellow. So I think there's like a circle. Is it
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circular like that? Yeah, this is coming together now. Let's do a smaller circle in between. As I
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said, I'm not going to get this right. It might not even be a circle. I know there's kind of a
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shield or something, but I'm hoping that it's surrounded by a circle. Obviously when there's
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like something super detailed, I don't need to get it exactly right. You saw what I was going for
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with the eagle. So that's kind of what I'm doing here as well. I definitely think my circle's too
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chunky. I might even get rid of it and I might do the emblem to begin with and then see how we feel
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about a circle over the top. Should we try that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This kind of
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thing where it's like, it's like this, a little bit of texture. Hmm, that looks nice. If this isn't
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the Portuguese flag, they should adopt it to be honest because I think I've done a lovely job. All right, smaller one in the middle like this. Very nice, Jack. You're very talented. Fill that
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in completely on both sides. I'm kind of buying time here. I'm not going to lie. I'm just sort of
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drawing things on top because I don't quite know how to proceed and then I'm just gonna do some lines like this
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Uh, yeah, and then should we attempt to put like a placeholder for where the text would be
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I'm guessing it's kind of like around here like this Yeah, okay. My court of arms there is actually pretty terrible
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I can feel it but I'm hoping that you'll kind of see what I'm going for the computer
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Please reveal the portuguese flag right so it is circular. Okay, fortunately
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we got the green and the red in the correct place. So that's a big relief. My emblem is pretty
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terrible. There isn't actually any text on it. And there's a bit of blue in the center, which I
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didn't draw at all. It's a shame because I feel like it was actually looking quite good with the
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circle. And then I got mixed up. But the fact that I'm missing the blue, I'm missing the castles
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and I'm missing the white. I think that that's another half point out. We got the overall shape
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but we lacked any detail. You know what? I am enjoying drawing flags. Guys, leave a like and
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subscribe if you have not already, please, because that would encourage me to definitely do more of
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this in the future. All right, next up, we have got Columbia. Okay, Columbia should be a perfect
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score because it's quite simple. There's no details. There's no scary emblems. So let's get
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rid of this, undo, and let's absolutely nail Columbia. Here we go. So I know that it is heavy
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yellow Beautiful And then I just need to get the other two colors correct It got to be blue and I gonna try them and see how things are looking So we go blue on this one Thank you Thank you very much And then we go red on the bottom Yeah I don think I need to change a thing
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All right, let's reveal the Colombian flag. Did we nail it? Yes, we did. Phew, thank goodness
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Oh, it also says here they speak Colombian in Colombia. That's interesting
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So next up, we are drawing and we've officially left Africa as well, which is nice because we want a bit of variety
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What are we drawing? Lichtenstein. Ooh, yeah. This should be another perfect skull, I think
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So it's red at the bottom, a lot of red. Like, what, this much, I think
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So that's fully red. And then the top is blue. Yeah, that looks good. And then I just need to draw a little teeny crown
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which I should be able to handle. So let's even try and get the type of crown accurate
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I think it's like this kind of thing. It's like a little bit rounded
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Yeah, kind of looks like a burger right now, but we'll just go with it
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Uh, yeah, so I don't think it's got, like, points on it. Maybe it does. Maybe they're, like, oh, maybe they're little, like, tiny, teeny ones
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No, I think it's got a little cross on it at the top, like this kind of thing
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That's what I'm going with. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Let's fill this in. Good
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And then I think it's actually got, like, little bits of black on it as well, like this sort of thing
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Probably quite a bit thinner than that. So we'll go kind of just a bit more detailed, like that
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Uh, little lines there, little line there. Kind of just winging it here, but I'm quite happy with this. I think that looks good
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He looks like a little man All right, lichtenstein flag reveal yourself. Yeah
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Very nice. I'm happy with that. Actually the closer I look it's actually 50 50 with the double color
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I thought the blue was quite a bit smaller So I don't think I deserve a full point even though my crown is pretty good
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I actually think for a microsoft paint version i've done a pretty good job of the crown
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But sadly, my shapes have let me down. So let's give myself a 0.75 out of one for that one
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Yeah, thank you. All right, we spin again. Overall, we're not doing too badly here
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Things are going fine, aren't they? Could be better, but could be much, much worse
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Next country we are drawing is Azerbaijan. Oh, this is where it goes downhill
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No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I think it's come to me. I'm going blue, a nice light blue
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And then it's tricolor. And I think the center color's red. but I'm not sure. Is it red? Is it white? Ooh, we may be in trouble. We may be in a little bit of
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trouble, but nothing that I can't handle. Yeah, sure. Red and then green. Whoa. Oh no. Fill that
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in and then green there. Does that look correct? I think it does actually. And then what is it? Is
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it the crescent moon in the middle? I think so. So we're going to do it like this. I'm going to
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fill him in and then I'm going red over the top. Yeah, there we go. Then fill that in. Wow. Nice
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moon, Jack. You know what you're doing with your moons. And then we just do a nice star like that
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So it's not very centered, but you know what? I'll wiggle it. So let's just grab that and let's move
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it into the middle. Fill in that red and voila. Let's reveal the Azerbaijani flag. Ah, yeah
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that's a perfect point if ever I've seen one. My star could have been more starry. I could have had
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like more points, but that isn't actually an available star on Microsoft Paint. So I'm giving
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myself a perfect one there. Thank you. Okay, let's narrow it down a little bit. We've not really had
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anything from Europe yet. We've had Azerbaijan from Asia, but not enough. We'll skip Africa and
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South America, and we will just leave these. So let's spin and see where we get next. Okay
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because I want a nice bit of variety. So far less options this time. We are now drawing..
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Norway. Okay, Norway's a one that, like, it would be really embarrassing if I was to get this wrong
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I can draw Norway. Surely, surely I can draw Norway. But I do sometimes struggle when there's
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like specific little colors. But it's red background. And then we need the Nordic cross, which is, I think, white
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Hmm. Yep. This looks nice. Fill that in. And then it's blue, right
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The minute it's looking very Denmark-like. So let's just do blue within it
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Is that right? This looks good. I feel like there's some black involved, though. Nah, that has just become very Norwegian before my very eyes
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I'm locking that in. Don't touch it. Another step, Jack. No, thank you. Computer, please reveal
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Yeah, we nailed that one. Phew. Thank goodness for that. Okay. We've had nowhere and Lichtenstein, so get out of here
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Only 87 countries to choose from now Let see Let do two more and then we end off the video But I enjoyed this thoroughly Right We are now drawing Oh oh no please Oh I thought it was going to be Hong
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Kong and I was very scared, but we have moved on to Lebanon. Right. I've definitely drawn Lebanon
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in this series before and this should be fine. It's quite straightforward. I believe it's red
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on the top and then once again, red on the bottom. Yeah. Okay. So it's kind of a little bit like a
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a Christmas tree. It's very much this kind of thing, and it is quite cartoony as well. I didn't
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nail that. I'm going to do that again. So let's do the point at the top, and then we go in, and then
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yeah, we are kind of drawing a Christmas tree. I don't think it's quite this Christmas tree-like
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but we'll go with it. It'll be fine, okay? Fill that in. There you go. Is that it for the Lebanon
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flag? Obviously, ignore the black on the sides. Let's submit. Okay. Up. Yeah, we're fine. Actually
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the scale is slightly off. I had those doubts. I should have listened to them. Yeah, the Christmas
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tree should have a few. Well, it's not a Christmas tree. It's probably deeply offensive to the
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Lebanese. I apologize, but the tree should have some gaps within it and the red shouldn't be as
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chunky. I've got the scale a bit off. So even though I'm close, I'm going to say let's give
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ourselves half a point because there is significant room for improvement. Okay, for this final flag
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we're doing only oceanic countries because I've not had anywhere from Oceania yet. Or at least
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I don't think I have. It is possible. I've already forgotten. So this has narrowed it down to only 14
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Oh, that's a fun one to draw. Herobas. Let's try and do a good job here because I will be sad if we don't
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I think it's a red sky, which already sounds wrong. But we can change that. We can come back to it because for now, I'm going to do the cool waves
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And then is it? I think it's like this kind of thing, right? We do not usually get this wacky when we're drawing flags, but we are going for it
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And I think the waves are quite tightly packed into each other
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So it's like red and white alternating. Yeah, that's quite hard to draw
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It's gone a bit thin down here. Let's thicken it up. There we go. Okay, so that is white
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Yep. And then it's blue underneath. Maybe a lighter blue. Yeah. No, I don't think it is a lighter blue
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I think it's... Is it a lighter blue? We'll leave it like that kind of blue because now we're moving back onto another one of these
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Yep. Right. So these are nice waves. And then I've got like a seagull kind of bird
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I don't think it is a seagull, but it looks quite similar to a seagull. And that needs to be drawn in the middle
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And the seagull's quite big as well. God, I'm really having to focus here. They're still so wonky
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All right, fill that in with white. Nice. That looks cute, to be fair. I'm wondering, is there a sun
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I feel like there might be a sun. Should have drawn the sun first. I think there's a sun
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And I think it's a big circular sun like this, right? It's kind of like that
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I wish this was behind my waves. I'm not gonna lie. All right, it's a hand-drawn sun. We're getting a little bit wacky with it. Whoa there
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Oh, ho, ho. The thing is, though, my bird's yellow as well. So the bird is quite interesting looking, right
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Um, it's, oh, God. Amazing. All right, bird with his big wings. Yeah, and then he's got, he's got wings on this side as well
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Yeah, there we go. So it's like this. Yeah, get some little feet sticking out, bro. Fantastic
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So now we fill him in beautiful. Ah, no, don't do that. There you go. That's good. That's that's nice
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No, no, there we go. And yeah, okay. And then we go yellow for the sun behind. Wow. This is something
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Beautiful. Look at that. Oh god. Hang on. Sorry about that. There we go. Okay. Is this my submission for curabast
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Looks so funny. I think I've remembered every component. So I'll be sad here if I haven't let's reveal the actual curabas flag ah
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Okay, so yeah every component is there That looks so funny Look, you can tell I remembered his big long beak and he's got his little beady eyes as well
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And the wings are in the correct kind of location But the the birds actually not that far away when you break it down, but the bird and the sun aren't overlapping
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that's where i've gone wrong all of my colors are correct as well the birds should be the same color
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as the sun and for microsoft paint my waves aren't too bad either even though i needed another white
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one let's give ourselves half a point but also just a little nice job yak you did well there
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that was really fun i enjoyed that and i would like to bring this back so let me know some maybe
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theme suggestions in the comments down below also this is my final score not too bad could be better
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could be worse thanks for watching and i'll see you later
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