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for procreate, fresco, clip studio and krita

colour by number for your iPad

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

shop the iPad kits, $3.95

seven 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 colour by number kit

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

kiwi slices

19 colours410 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 colour by number kit

halved oranges, pink grapefruit, lemons and limes seen from above on a white table, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

citrus halves

25 colours440 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 colour, gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

a wash of sunset colour, gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

abstract sunset

30 colours304 pieces3000 x 2400 px

a painterly wash of sunset colour: gold and butter yellow burning through coral and hot pink into deep violet. no subject, no edges, just colour 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 colour by number kit

two grapefruit cocktails in hard summer sunlight with rosemary, orange slices and baby's breath, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

grapefruit cocktails

24 colours893 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

the meditative one a cluster of woodland mushrooms on a bank of moss with the forest soft and green behind, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

a cluster of woodland mushrooms on a bank of moss with the forest soft and green behind, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

woodland mushrooms

20 colours914 pieces3000 x 2400 px

a little cluster of woodland mushrooms on a bank of moss, shot close and low, with the forest falling away into soft green behind them.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit

a whole weekend a quiet cafe corner at dusk with blond wooden chairs, a wall of paperbacks and a blue evening window, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

a quiet cafe corner at dusk with blond wooden chairs, a wall of paperbacks and a blue evening window, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

cafe corner

27 colours1,049 pieces3000 x 2400 px

a quiet corner of a cafe at dusk: two blond wooden chairs, a little round table, a wall of paperbacks, and a window with the blue evening street on the other side.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit

a long evening a capybara in close-up with warm ginger fur and long pale whiskers against soft sand, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

a capybara in close-up with warm ginger fur and long pale whiskers against soft sand, painted from the hello paint colour by number kit

capybara

19 colours809 pieces3000 x 2400 px

a capybara in close-up, side on, all warm ginger fur and long pale whiskers against soft out-of-focus sand.

$3.95instant download get the iPad kit

five files, one zip

what is in the download

line-art.png
every outline on a see-through layer, drawn with hard edges so a colour drop fills the shape and stops dead at the line.
numbers.png
the numbers on their own see-through layer. switch it off when a region is done.
palette.swatches
a real procreate palette. import it once and every colour is sitting in your colour picker, in kit order.
finished-art.png
what it looks like painted, to work from. it also sits at the bottom of your layers, and that is the bit that lets the outlines go as well as the numbers.
read-me.png
a one page setup guide with a picture of the layer stack, written for someone who has never opened procreate. every tap spelled out.

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 colour 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 colour 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 colouring 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.

watercolour 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 colour, matched to the pens you already own

a free tracer hands you a hex code and wishes you luck. every kit here names the closest colour in four standard sets, by code and by name, on a card printed at true 1-inch squares so you can swatch your own markers right beside it.

ohuhu honolulu
320 alcohol markers
copic
357 alcohol markers
prismacolor premier
150 coloured pencils
faber-castell polychromos
120 coloured pencils

797 of the 947 colours across those four sets rest on real hand swatches, blended from nine independent swatch sets and checked against each maker's own chart. the rest are the maker's own chart corrected by that line's measured shift. 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 colour, 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 colour 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: print the faintest plain outline to colour on 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.