You did a great thing by previewing your design here before submitting it -- congrats!
That said, you'll want to give the
2D User Content Guidelines a thorough read. Pay particular attention to:
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1. COLORS
ENCOURAGED: Naturalistic colors. This includes colors with a saturation of up to approximately 90%. Reference the in-game Ship Customization Palette (attached).
DISCOURAGED: Highly saturated colors, including pure or nearly pure black and white.
Typical feedback:
Great design, but you'll want to avoid significant areas of pure white, black, or other fully-saturated colors. Try a [color range], a [color range], and a [color range].
Some typical color suggestions:
Red around RGB 150/45/35
Orange around RGB 240/160/40
Gold around RGB 220/180/50
Green around RGB 45/115/35
Blue around RGB 40/50/90
Purple around RGB 70/20/80
Black around RGB 50/40/30
White around RGB 235/230/220
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7. IMAGE SOURCES
ENCOURAGED: Original artwork and design elements from free, public-domain clip art sources.
FORBIDDEN: Artwork that is copyrighted (including almost anything found via a Google Images search), trademarked, or "borrowed" from another artist without their express written permission (which must be communicated directly to the User Content Specialist or Director of Community Relations).
Typical feedback:
This is a copyrighted image, and thus unsuited to Pirates of the Burning Sea. Sorry.
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11. SPECIFIC TO SAILS: AREA OF COVERAGE
ENCOURAGED: Sails that have significant (50% or more) areas of background that are transparent.
DISCOURAGED: Full-sail replacements.
NOTE: Sails and decals can be colored independently. Sail designs that require a two-tone background NOT achievable with a colored sail should use transparent areas of color (opacity around 50%) to "tint" the underlying sail (example attached).
Typical feedback:
You'll need to figure out how to make your sail as a decal with a transparent background -- decals and sails can be colored independently, and the sail will benefit from our high-resolution texture behind it. You'll also want to make the decal partially transparent (around 70% opaque), so some of the underlying sail texture shows through.
12. SPECIFIC TO SAILS: TRANSPARENCY
ENCOURAGED: Some transparency in all sail elements (opacity of 50-70%) allowing some underlying sail texture to show through.
DISCOURAGED: Large areas of sail (50% or more) that are fully opaque, obscuring the underlying sail structure.
Typical feedback:
Fine design, but with so much canvas colored, you'll want to make your decal somewhat transparent (opacity around 70%) so some of the underlying sail texture shows through.
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I've highlighted the portions most helpful to you here.
Once you've worked on these areas, feel free to post another preview in this thread, which I've renamed to be your very own flag and sail preview area. Happy drawing!