Ok, I understand. Here’s my blog post, mimicking the style and tone you described:
## Soccer England Flag – My Weekend Project!
Alright, so this weekend I was totally bored, and decided I needed a new project. I’ve been messing around with simple graphics stuff lately, and I thought, “Hey, why not try to make the England flag… but like, a cool, soccer-themed one?” Sounds easy, right? WRONG.
First off, I fired up my usual graphics program (it’s this free one I found, nothing fancy). I started with the basic white background. Easy peasy. Then I was like, “Okay, gotta get that red cross in there.”
This is where things got tricky.
I messed around with shapes for what felt like forever. Trying to get the right shade of red, the right thickness of the lines… I swear, it was a nightmare of trial and error. I kept zooming in and out, tweaking, zooming back in. I even looked up the official RGB values for the England flag red. Turns out there are like, five different “official” ones. Go figure.
- Laying the base white
- Add a red cross
- Putting a soccer ball
After like, an hour of fiddling, I finally got the cross looking decent. But then I was like, “Nah, it needs something more. It’s gotta be soccer-y!”
So, I figured, soccer balls. Gotta add some soccer balls. I found a decent image of a soccer ball online (free to use, of course, I’m not paying for anything!), and started trying to incorporate it. At first, I tried just slapping it in the middle of the cross. Looked awful. Way too cluttered.
I then had the brilliant idea to tile a bunch of tiny soccer balls to fill the red cross. Sounded good in my head. Took me another hour to actually pull it off. The program kept crashing because I was trying to load too many images at once. I had to resize the soccer ball image to like, ridiculously small, and then tile it. Even then, it looked kind of… weird. Like a cross made of fuzzy polka dots.
But hey, it was my weird, fuzzy, soccer-ball polka dot England flag. So, I kept going. I added a bit of shading to the edges to make it look less flat. I was kinda getting into it at this point.
Finally, after a whole afternoon of messing around, I was somewhat happy with it. It’s not perfect, by any means. It’s kinda janky, and the soccer balls are a bit too fuzzy. But hey, it’s done! I saved it as a .PNG, and now it’s my new desktop background.
What did I learn? Making simple graphics is harder than it looks. Also, I need to find a better graphics program that doesn’t crash every five minutes. But hey, at least I have a weird soccer England flag to show for my efforts.
