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Adding to the popular Paint by Numbers genre, Awigor Studio Games has released its Art by Numbers offering.  With some slight differences in its approach to creating colourful images, this painting game comes with 72 sketches ready for use.  These sketches have been spread over nine groups.  As each sketch can be individually tackled in either numbered coloured mode or as free colouring mode, this does provide you will with over 140 sketches on which to practice your artistic skills when it comes to adding colour to an image.

Having selected your sketch for colouring when using numbered mode, you will be taken to a work area that features the sketch and a panel running sown the right side of the screen.  The panel contains the various tools available to you when colouring the sketch,  Central to the panel is a numbered colour palette showing the colours for the current sketch.  Linked to the colour palette are two slots showing the amount of areas to be coloured in for the whole image and the currently selected number.  The panel also contains slider bars to adjust the sketch size and a background shading option, switch between brush and fill tools, centre the sketch and ask for a Hint.

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Taking over most of the work area will be the sketch with its various sections often clearly numbered.  When colouring the sketch you have a choice of routes to take.  You can either let the software work through the numbers in sequence or make your own random selections. 

Whichever route you take, the currently selected number section will be highlighted in grey to help you identify sections to target for colouring.  This does help with a small sections that are too small to show their number.  By hovering the mouse cursor over such a small section highlighted grey, the appropriate number will appear.  There is also the option to use the Hint feature to locate a hard-to-find small greyed section if the need arises.

 Once completed the image will be saved along with the time taken to fulfil the task.  You will be given the option to repeat the colouring process using the same settings or save the image as an example of your work.  You can then move on to the next supplied sketch for another colouring session.

When opting for free colouring mode, the sketches remain the same but without the numbered facility.  This means that rather than working with specific numbered colour palette, you will need to work with a hue selector and colour field facility.  You also have access to an eye-dropper tool to pick up a colour from another areas and use it in a current location.  Sections can be targeted and your choice of colour added.   Completed images will be saved but without the time measurements delivered with number colour mode.

I downloaded my copy of this game from Gamehouse.com where it is priced at $9.99.  The game requires a 1.6GHz processor with 1024MB of RAM and 67.1MB of hard disk space running Windows 7 and later.

Art by Numbers | GameHouse