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a long evening

capybara colour by number kit

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

the quiet one. only 19 colours, but 809 pieces, because fur is not one flat shape: it is hundreds of small strokes of ginger, tan and dark umber lying next to each other. swatch once, then settle in for a long evening.

printable PDF, $9.95 for iPad, $6.95

instant download. on iPad this kit is listed as capybara.

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

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.

the numbers, so you know before you buy

what you are taking on

  • 19 colours across 809 pieces.
  • the printable kit is 64 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.
  • not one of those 809 pieces is smaller than a size-0 brush tip. nothing here needs your finest nib. I would rather tell you now.

the fur runs light to dark across the face, so work the pale pieces first and let the darks land last. the background is soft and forgiving, and nothing in it has to be neat.

the 19 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 honolulu16 of 19 colours have a close match
copic10 of 19 colours have a close match
prismacolor premier17 of 19 colours have a close match
faber-castell polychromos14 of 19 colours have a close match

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

on paper

64 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 capybara kit, $9.95

on your iPad

the same picture, 5 layered files

listed as capybara. 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 capybara 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.

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