Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

Best drawing app, help improve drawing skills, for beginner and professional artist.

I had high hopes for this app. However, to be able to draw, you have to place the phone onto something next to the art paper. Most of the phone has to be over the paper. Which means you need to hold the phone down with one hand while drawing with the other to attempt to steady the image. You don’t get your full page to draw with. If you want to purchase an apparatus to hold the phone, that cost more; therefore, you are having to hold your phone, it is not steady and your image moves around as you draw. The controls to adjust are buried underneath small tabs. It does not make sense as to what these control. Even when you use the helps, it’s still not clear. I wish I could get my money back. I will move onto something different.

I love this tool! It allowed me to be a better and more confident artist. It’s genius.

The title says it all. Don’t be fooled by the imitators out there. This is the OG app and it has made my art easier to make and better than I could do without it.

I have found this to be a FANTASTIC tool for my pencil drawings. I can get precise perspectives and placement of eyes and detail that can make or break a piece of art. I’m a BIG detail artist and find that this has been so helpful to me. I have used an opaque projector for years but this app has almost made that piece of equipment obsolete and has sure taken preparation steps away. No more printing a photo to use…just download and go! Its AWESOME!!

I’ve had this app from the beginning , I teach beginning watercolors…my students love it….once they have used it for a while they begin to draw!

i just downloaded this app. For me, to make this app useful, the phone must be on a stand… i cannot hold my phone steady enough to make a decent tracing onto paper.

This app is a great help in checking to see if your proportions are correct as you work to get a likeness.

I’ve never written reviews like this, but I have tried multiple apps like this, and nothing compares! I can tell a major difference in my drawings as a beginner using this app. Being able to zoom in for details without losing perspective on your paper has been an absolute game-changer!

I’ve used this program that makes drawing easy for several years . I primarily use it to get photos accurately drawn onto painting canvas or watercolor paper. Recently, I tried the hosting feature using an iPhone and iPad. Wow! I wish I had tried this years ago. It made every thing easier, more accurate and enlarging to bigger sizes simple. It’s the best system I’ve found to compensate for my imperfect drawing skills. Today, I was having a problem I couldn’t solve. I sent a question to Pete, the developer, from the program on a Sunday. He responded within two hours and gave direction to immediately resolve my issue. I’ve never before experienced such responsive customer service on any product.