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Camera Lucida an Optical Tool that Let you Draw like a Photo
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Camera Lucida an Optical Tool that Let you Draw like a Photo
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Pretty awesome device. I wonder if someone who can’t draw at all would eventually gain actual skill over time if they used one of these long enough. Like, the ability to trace would lead to the ability to draw from direct sight.
I’m honestly tempted to try. You can apparently buy one of those Neo Lucidas for about 40 to 75 bucks, depending on the size.
Didn’t Vermeer use something like this?
And they cried out “IT’S NOT REAL ART!”
If you liked this check out the documentary [Tim’s Vermeer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%27s_Vermeer).
It’s about an inventor who hypothesises Vermeer used a camera obscura and recreates an almost exact replica of one of his paintings using a similar device.
Awesome!
These things are really really hard to use. Proportional dividers are much easier to use and will help you learn to draw properly.
This guy has a good demo of how to use them… https://youtu.be/nEZMKc0nMAg