I came up with the idea for this design a few weeks ago -- I forget precisely when. Perhaps the idea came to me shortly after I designed my DA avatar for the 2019 year.





Regardless of the inspiration, I wanted to create a flag/banner design that was symbolic of my dragon fursona, Intaglio. It'd be something whose appearance captured some of the defining features of Intaglio's appearance, yet be simple enough in its design that it could pass as a flag for a state/country.





The basic layout was inspired by the state flag of Texas. Instead of a lone star, it's the currency scarab symbol featured so prominently on Intaglio's torso, surrounded by the dark green scales. The black portion, with its arching green lines and my attempt at a faint craquelure pattern, is meant to resemble the appearance of his wings. And the white, speckled with isolated tufts of red and blue, is a typical pattern of his body fur.





The trickiest part of this, for me, was practicing the use of Photoshop's Pen tool (parametric curve mode) in order to produce those thick arching green lines.

