So I picked up my camera to show everything side-by-side, aiming to give people the info they need to make the best choice for creating art with a tool rooted in the techniques of the old masters. After seeing Ingres’ drawings in a museum, Hockney purchased a vintage camera lucida and tried it out.

Hall took his father's words seriously and throughout his navy career published accounts of his scientific, exploratory, and diplomatic missions. Using a camera lucida for nearly 15 years tells me that skilled artists like Ingres would do most of a detailed drawing like this without optical aids. I used mine to sketch a pencil with a radical skull head he had given me as a gift and presented him with the cool tool and sketch over takeout Chinese on our back porch. The NEOLUCIDA PLUS is a redesign of the original NEOLUCIDA that adds features addressing non-issues, while maintaining the tiny, nearly postcard-sized and difficult-to-use image. Post-Kickstarter, they outsourced to China and rolled out NEOLUCIDA XL, which appeared to mimic our LUCY flex.

Ingres is, without question, one history’s great draftsmen and the subject of a lot of reverence and superhero worship.

Today, as DrawLUCY has become a global name, it's worth pausing to compare it with other modern camera lucidas that have popped up. Herschel took his camera lucida with him as he traveled for King and country in the pursuit of scientific excellence. An enthusiastic artist and draughtsman in his early years, he became a maker of drawing apparatuses. In manufacturing a camera lucida for the 21st century, our aim is to stimulate interest in media archaeologythe tightly interconnected history of visual culture and imaging technologies.That’s interesting use of old technology, I’ve been using an overhead projector in my photographic work.

or 199g), sturdy, compact enough to fit in a handbag, highly adjustable, totally non-electronic, and effective in nearly all lighting conditions. The NeoLucida PLUS setup: Clamp to a table, position the viewer over your page with your subject in front of you.

The original NeoLucida was made in 2013 by Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin and supported by 11,406 backers on Kickstarter. He won most of them because he had deep pockets and he underpaid his engineers so much because he knew they couldn’t afford the 10+years in court. But your brain blends the two views, making it look like your subject is "projected" onto your paper.