The LUCY Drawing Tool reflects your subject onto your paper so you can see what you are drawing and draw what you see. It is one of the fastest and most enjoyable ways to start creating real art while building real drawing skills.
Most beginners do not struggle because they cannot move a pencil. They struggle because the brain wants to draw what it thinks an eye, cup, face or hand looks like instead of what is actually there.
The LUCY helps change that. It reflects your subject onto your drawing surface so you can see shapes, proportions, angles, placement and perspective more clearly.
You still draw. You still make decisions. You still make mistakes. But instead of guessing, your eye and hand get to practice working together from a more accurate visual starting point.
The more you draw what you see, the more you begin to understand how drawing works.
See how big one shape really is compared with another instead of relying on what your brain assumes.
Watch circles flatten into ellipses, angles shift and forms change as objects turn in space.
Practice connecting the line you see with the movement of your hand while you create an actual drawing.
Training wheels let you enjoy riding a bike while you are still learning balance and control. The LUCY works the same way for drawing.
You do not have to wait until you feel “good enough” before making something you love. LUCY helps you start creating right away while you continue learning the fundamentals of proportion, perspective, observation and hand-eye coordination.
You get the fun and confidence of making real art now — while your eyes and hands are learning what accurate drawing feels like.
The LUCY does not replace learning. It helps you learn by doing.
One of the most frustrating parts of learning to draw is feeling like you have to practice for years before you can create anything you are excited about.
The LUCY helps you start sooner.
Use it for portraits, still life, landscapes, animals, flowers, crafts, paintings, signs, cake decorating and more. It helps you begin with better proportions and placement so you can focus on learning, improving and enjoying the process.
The goal is not just to make a better drawing today. It is to help you develop the visual habits that make tomorrow’s drawing better too.
These customers came to LUCY for the same reason many beginners do: they wanted to improve, get past the frustrating start, and finally enjoy making art.
“I have done many ‘learn to draw’ exercises but progress has been slow. Tracing with the LUCY tool has given me insight into perspective with weird shapes and allowed me to get a good start on paintings without wearing out erasers. I'm actually creating while bypassing the stress and grueling effort to get started. It has helped me improve on my freestyle drawing as well.”
Larry G. · LUCY customer
“I am 73 years old and have been trying to learn to draw from pictures. It had not been working until I tried the LUCY with Photo Enlarger. It is still a work in progress but I am learning.”
Dorothy M. · LUCY customer
“The LUCY DRAWING TOOL has changed my life! My long time desire to learn to draw has been satisfied with this amazing tool… After one or two tries, I had drawn a near perfect outline of my subject and I couldn't believe it was my hand that accomplished it! No previous talent, just a wish. After I was done I knew I finally had the confidence to want to continue.”
Cm · LUCY customer
“You still make mistakes, but the point is that it helps train your eyes. Over time, it can have a similar effect to exercises like blind contour drawing because it helps you see how to translate a 3D world onto 2D paper.
I’m an artist. My wife is not. It was amazing seeing a light go off in her head after using the LUCY a few times. She started to understand perspective — like how the top of a cup is always a flatter oval than you think. Now she is way better than she was before, even when not using a LUCY.
I’ve seen this again and again.”
— Les Cookson, inventor of the LUCY Drawing Tool
The LUCY gives you the visual tool. The LUCY Learning Hub helps walk you through the learning process.
It includes the LUCY Drawing Course plus drawing, painting, portraiture, watercolor, projects and tutorials designed to help you keep growing.
Instead of separating “learning exercises” from the art you actually want to make, the Hub integrates proven drawing techniques with hands-on LUCY practice.
Learn a concept, use it in a real project, see the result, and keep building from there.
Start with a 7-day free trial.
The LUCY is a modern reinvention of the camera lucida and the larger tradition of optical drawing tools. It reflects your subject onto your paper, canvas or drawing surface so you can draw over the reflected image and start your sketch in minutes.
Copying, tracing and drawing aids have been used as learning methods for generations because accurate practice helps train the eye. When you repeatedly see what correct proportions, perspective and placement look like, those relationships begin to make more sense.
LUCY helps you practice seeing correctly.
Artists have always used tools to study, practice and create. The question is not whether a tool helps you — it is what you learn while you use it.
With LUCY, you still have to observe, adjust and draw every stroke yourself. That practice connects what your eye sees with what your hand does. The reflected image is a guide — the drawing is still yours.
Hear from an artist who used a camera lucida as part of the process of learning to draw.
Every model uses the same basic idea: look through, see your subject on the page, and draw what you see.
A great entry-level LUCY for learning to draw and working at smaller sizes.
Shop LUCY miniOur most popular model, with a larger image and more flexibility as your art grows.
Shop LUCY flexLook through the view hole. Draw what you see. Create real art while you learn — and start becoming the artist you have always wanted to be.
Models from $69 · 30-day money-back guarantee · 1-year warranty · Built in the USA
