As long ago as 1807 – and possibly up to 200 years earlier – many artists used an optical device known as a camera lucida to help them in sketching subjects. A controversial theory even suggests that ...

Anyone who enjoys sketching and would like to be able to capture and outline of the subject they are painting or drawing a little quicker may be interested in a new piece of equipment created by the ...

They say there is nothing new under the sun, and nowhere is that more true than Kickstarter, where anything old and cool is being made new again. We've seen this before with everything from da Vinci ...

I have three very good reasons to write this post. One is that the camera lucida is just a kick-ass gadget, the kind of thing that all you creative iOwning folks out there will presumably love. Second ...

The NeoLucida lets you trace images from real life. So you have your iPad and your apps, and you even arranged a bowl of fruit/nude model (delete as applicable). But what about hardware? After all, ...

A couple of days ago (Friday 10 May 2013) I became aware of a rather interesting project on KickStarter.com. Two guys – Pablo Garcia and Golan Levin – have designed something called the NeoLucida, ...

The NeoLucida, a simple optical drawing tool, is set to disrupt the way artists work. It’s a widely held belief that the Old Masters were exactly that: masters, such as da Vinci and Vermeer, who ...