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hellopaint

for procreate, fresco, clip studio and krita

color by number for your iPad

no printer, no markers, nothing to mix. import the zip, set the line art as your reference layer, and color drop straight through the numbers. when you are done, both the numbers and the outlines switch off.

shop the iPad kits, $3.95

four kits

pick your evening

$3.95 each, instant download, paint it as many times as you like.

start here kiwi slices tumbling down a hot yellow background with blueberries falling past them, painted from the hello paint paint by number kit

kiwi slices

19 colors410 pieces2400 x 3000 px

six slices of kiwi caught mid-air on a hot yellow background, with three blueberries falling past them.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit
quick and bright halved oranges, pink grapefruit, lemons and limes seen from above on a white table, painted from the hello paint paint by number kit

citrus halves

25 colors440 pieces2400 x 2400 px

citrus cut in half and laid out from above: oranges, pink grapefruit, lemons and limes on a clean white table.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit
one evening a wash of sunset color, gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet, painted from the hello paint paint by number kit

abstract sunset

30 colors304 pieces3000 x 2400 px

a painterly wash of sunset color: gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet. no subject, no edges, just color doing what it wants.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit
a few evenings two grapefruit cocktails in hard summer sunlight with rosemary, orange slices and baby's breath, painted from the hello paint paint by number kit

grapefruit cocktails

24 colors893 pieces2400 x 2400 px

two grapefruit cocktails in hard summer sunlight, with rosemary sprigs, orange slices and a scatter of baby's breath.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit

three kits, one bundle

the fruit trio

the shop's whole fruit shelf in one go: 68 colors and 1,743 pieces across the three kits, and every number in this listing was read out of the files you are buying. kiwi is the easiest start, citrus moves almost as quickly, and the grapefruit cocktails are the busiest picture in the shop.

get the fruit trio, $7.95
the listing video
three procreate color by number kits in one fruit trio bundle: citrus halves, kiwi slices and grapefruit cocktail side by side, 68 colors and 1,743 pieces across the three kits
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the finished citrus halves digital painting, kit one of the fruit trio: oranges, pink grapefruit, lemons and limes from above, 25 colors and 440 pieces filled on an ipad
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the finished kiwi slices digital painting, kit two of the fruit trio: kiwi tumbling down a mustard yellow wall with blueberries falling past, 19 colors and 410 pieces filled on an ipad
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the finished grapefruit cocktail digital painting, kit three of the fruit trio: two cocktails from above with rosemary and baby's breath tucked in, 24 colors and 893 pieces
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the three real photographs behind the fruit trio bundle above the three finished kits, showing how each picture becomes a procreate paint by number template
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how every fruit trio procreate kit works in four steps: finished art at the bottom, line art as the reference layer, paint on your own layer between, then switch every guide off
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all three fruit trio kits filling color by color: citrus halves at 12 of 25 colors, kiwi slices at 13 of 19, and the grapefruit cocktail with all 24 colors in
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the numbers and the outlines both switch off in every fruit trio kit: the same spot on the kiwi page while you work, then with the numbers off, then with the outlines gone too
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the same kiwi kit painted three ways: a flat color drop, a see-through watercolor style brush, and the finished art underneath, because any procreate brush paints into the same numbered layers
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the three procreate color palettes that come with the fruit trio bundle: 25 citrus colors, 19 kiwi colors and 24 grapefruit colors, 68 real swatches in painting order
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what is in the fruit trio bundle: line art, a numbers layer, finished art, a real procreate palette and a read me guide for each of the three kits, 15 files with nothing to print
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the honest numbers for the fruit trio bundle before you buy: 25, 19 and 24 colors per kit, 440, 410 and 893 pieces, 68 colors and 1,743 pieces all together
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the three fruit trio kits ranked shortest sit to longest by their real piece counts: kiwi slices at 410 pieces, citrus halves at 440, grapefruit cocktail at 893
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made by megan, a maths teacher who sets up every hello paint kit by hand and checked every layer of all three fruit trio kits, all 15 files, before they ship
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send your own photo and get a custom procreate color by number kit made exactly the way the three fruit trio kits were
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the listing's own video and all 15 of its photos, in the order the listing shows them. scroll sideways for the rest.

five files, one zip

what is in the download

five files is a shop constraint, not a style choice: etsy allows five files per listing, and these are sold as loose files. so every one of them earns its place.

the bit that matters

the outlines come off too, not just the numbers

a color drop fills up to the reference layer's line and never onto it, so your paint layer is missing every pixel the line covers. hide the line art on its own and you would be left with a pale hairline everywhere a line used to be.

that is why finished-art.png sits at the bottom of the stack: it already holds the right color in exactly those places. keep it hidden while you paint, so an unpainted region still looks unpainted, then switch it on at the end. numbers off, outlines off, and what is left is a painting rather than a coloring page.

what you need

  • an iPad and procreate. it works the same in fresco, clip studio paint and krita.
  • nothing else. no printer, no markers, no palette, nothing to wash up.
  • every file is sized for 300 dpi, so if you ever want it on paper it prints at full quality too.

watercolor and other see-through brushes are not bound by the reference layer, so they paint over where the lines are. worth knowing before you pick a brush.

the part nothing else does

every color, matched to the markers and pencils you already own

a free tracer hands you a hex code and wishes you luck. every kit here matches every swatch to its closest color in four popular brands, markers and pencils both, on a card printed at true 1-inch squares so you can swatch your own markers right beside it. the guesswork is done before you uncap anything.

  • ohuhu honolulu

    320 alcohol markers

  • copic

    357 alcohol markers

  • prismacolor premier

    150 colored pencils

  • faber-castell polychromos

    120 colored pencils

what that looks like in practice

the dog at the top of this site was colored entirely in ohuhu markers first, one flat color at a time. the last hour was prismacolor pencils on top: the little hairs on his face, the grass, the texture in the hydrangeas.

two different sets, one card, and every color matched. that is the whole point: you are not guessing which marker is closest while the ink is still wet, and you can finish in pencil over marker without the two sets arguing.

this reference is built from nine independent hand-swatched sources across the four sets, swatched on more than one paper, never off a maker's chart. where nothing comes close, the card says so. where nothing comes close, the card says no close marker match instead of pointing you at something wrong.

or bring your own picture

your photo, as a procreate kit

same layers, same palette, made from a photo you send. $10.95.

order a custom iPad kit how custom kits work

no surprises

about the iPad kits

is this a physical kit?

no, and that is on purpose. everything is digital: printable PDFs for paper, or a zip of layered files for procreate. nothing ships, nothing gets lost in the post, and you can print your outline again if you ruin one.

there are free paint-by-number generators. why pay?

because a free generator hands you one machine trace and wishes you luck. a kit here is eighteen outlines at four darknesses, a page per color, the piece count and the small-piece warning in writing before you pay, and a swatch card that names the closest ohuhu, copic, prismacolor and polychromos for every color in the kit. and a person looks at your photo first and tells you if it will not paint well.

do the numbers and lines show when I am finished?

on paper, no: one way is to color on the faintest plain outline and keep the numbered one beside you as your map. on an iPad, no: the numbers are on their own layer and so are the outlines, and both switch off at the end.

who makes these?

Megan, a high school maths teacher who paints. one person picks the picture, sets the kit up by hand, runs it through software she wrote, and reads every page before it ships.

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