Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

I’m having so much fun tracing and painting. Its fantastic.

Wonderful, original app Camera Lucida app The best tool ever created to help draw The updates, the help from Peter the creator of this app is unparalleled I love it

This app is frequently updated by the developer and has a Facebook group which is extremely helpful.

I started painting everyday a year and a half ago, I was really struggling getting likenesses, then I found camera Lucida ! What a game changer. Thanks for this awesome app, I love the constant improvements, highly recommend!

I have tried lots of apps and techniques but this is the best. I still have problems with getting the right sized image ie..not having to hold it way up with one hand and trying to trace with the other but I think that is me. Still learning how to negotiate the usability and mastery. I know I can zoom in and out but.. still can’t get the image large enough on my paper unless the camera is held WAY up.

Can’t thank you enough for helping me find my inner artist. Without this app I got frustrated and gave up. Now with my proportions correct I am amazing myself with what I can do. Thank you, thank you, thank you

Works well and as promised and demonstrated (just need to change to a table with no movements, lol) Your tutorials are superb and very helpful I am using various applications currently with the mirror, as i wait for the “bed stand” Since i am of a certain age, when i forget, i can just rewatch tutorials Really enjoying it, thank you again

this was a great app before version 10, now it just got a lot better. I recommend spending some time experimenting, checking out the YouTube videos. It’s well worth the investment in time to get the results you want.

Definitely not worth $10.99. If I could get my money back I would.

I found several other apps that work like this, but this is the best. For comfort I use it with an iPad angled at 45 deg, as with my drawing surface. Test that the two are aligned correctly, otherwise the drawing will be distorted. Put a square shape on to drawing surface and check it aligns with the grid on the app. Once you develop good eye-to-hand co-ordination, it feels quite natural. It is brilliant for transposing shapes accurately. My advice to anyone just developing as an artist is to know when to switch the app off and finish/refine your drawing/painting looking directly at it.