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a whole weekend

cafe corner colour by number kit

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.

the long one, and deliberately so. 1,049 pieces of warm wood, worn leather and book spines, with the whole right-hand side given over to a bookshelf you can lose an entire weekend in.

printable PDF, $9.95 for iPad, $6.95

instant download. on iPad this kit is listed as bookshop nook.

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 the numbered outline page from the cafe corner colour by number kit the original photo the cafe corner kit was made from

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.

the numbers, so you know before you buy

what you are taking on

  • 27 colours across 1,049 pieces.
  • the printable kit is 80 pages across 5 PDFs. the art prints 10 x 8 in, centred on a US Letter page. print at 100%, not fit-to-page.
  • the iPad kit paints at 3000 x 2400 px, which is 10 x 8 in at 300 dpi.
  • roughly 12.2 to 22.7 hours on a tablet, so a few evenings.
  • not one of those 1,049 pieces is smaller than a size-0 brush tip. nothing here needs your finest nib. I would rather tell you now.

long rather than fiddly: nothing in it is smaller than a size-0 brush tip. the palette is almost all warm browns and golds against one cool blue window, so if your brown is a shade off mine, nobody will ever know.

the 27 colours in this kit

taken from this kit's own procreate palette. every one comes with its hex and RGB, and the swatch card names the closest colour in four standard sets:

how many of this kit's colours have a close match in each marker or pencil set
ohuhu honolulu25 of 27 colours have a close match
copic23 of 27 colours have a close match
prismacolor premier24 of 27 colours have a close match
faber-castell polychromos21 of 27 colours have a close match

where nothing comes close, the card says so rather than pointing you at something wrong.

on paper

80 printable pages, 5 PDFs

  • eighteen outlines to choose from

    four darknesses, each one plain or numbered, with or without the colour bar along the top. print the faintest plain one and no lines or numbers show in your finished piece. the last two sit over a 1-inch grid so you can copy the design onto canvas by hand.

  • the swatch card

    every colour as a true 1-inch square with its hex and RGB, so you can swatch your own markers straight onto it. then a page naming the closest ohuhu, copic, prismacolor and polychromos for every single colour.

  • the colour-by-colour guide

    one page per colour, that colour alone on the page. wondering where every #12 hides? turn to page 12.

  • the build-up guide

    the same one page per colour, but each page shows the whole picture as it grows, with only the colour that page adds numbered on it. no hunting for which shape is new.

  • the finished preview

    in full colour, plus a second copy with the numbers printed on the colours, so you can check yourself halfway through.

get the printable cafe corner kit, $9.95

on your iPad

the same picture, 5 layered files

listed as bookshop nook. colour drop through the numbers, then switch the numbers and the outlines off.

  • 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.

get the iPad bookshop nook kit, $6.95

the honest bit

the tracing and the numbering are computer-assisted, by a program I wrote and keep fixing. then I check and finish every kit by hand. it is not a stock file and it is not a machine left alone with your photo.

premade kits download the moment you buy. custom kits land in your inbox within 1 to 2 days of you approving the proof.

a different evening

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