So re @Thande's point that AH flags are often unrealistically good because the people who make them care way more about aesthetics then real most flag makers do, I thought I might repost a flag I made a little while back.
Arguably the most criticised flags in the world are the Asofo style African flags from Ghana and the countries west, most notoriously displayed in the Liberian County flags below.
I have seen it said by online Africans that they make people uncomfortable because they don't fit the eurocentric flag model rather than because they're objectively bad. And I can see that, they do have a certain appeal in terms of symbolism, vivid imagery and simplicity, I unironically think the choice of a Liberian flag in the top corner of all of them is brilliant. But there's a sloppiness to it, a roughness that makes it feel very amateur and unlike AH flags.
So a little while ago, in another thread, I wanted to mimic those. The Mano River Union between Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea does not have an organisational flag but I wondered what would happen if the guys who made Liberian County Flags tried to design one.
And I came up with the one below.
Which I think is pleasingly unpretty as a design. I got good feedback when I posted it elsewhere on this forum, in that a bunch of people told me how awful it looked.
This was really interesting: I had seen the Liberian flags before, but hadn't heard of asafo flags before this, and they are really cool.