Draw the flag of Spain from memory

What you are drawing

The flag of Spain is three equal horizontal bands — red, yellow and red from top to bottom, with coat of arms. It flies at a ratio of 2:3. On the PlayVexle difficulty scale it rates ★★★★☆ — one of the harder flags to recall accurately, mostly because of the detail in the middle.

How to score well on this one

• Colour is 70% of the score, so get the 3 bands down as flat blocks before anything else. Which colour touches the top is the single thing most people get wrong.
• The coat of arms counts for the final 10%. Roughly the right size in roughly the right place scores nearly as well as a perfect one — do not start there.
• Draw it at 2:3. The canvas is already the right shape, so fill it edge to edge rather than leaving a border.

Stuck? Open a memory hint

Red-gold-red in a 1:2:1 ratio, arms one third of the way in from the left.

Show me the flag of Spain

Opening this before you draw is allowed. It just will not help your score.

Want the construction order, the exact colour codes and what the design means? That is on the Spain flag guide.