Plus – a Modern Camera lucida Drawing Tool Lets You Trace What You See.

Price: $69.99
(as of Apr 01, 2025 18:37:49 UTC – Details)

Product Description

NeoLucida Turns 10!

We’ve spent nearly a year redesigning the original prism NeoLucida from the ground up. The result is a NeoLucida fit for beginners but with integrated accessories to advance your drawing skills.

What’s New in the NeoLucida Plus? Redesigned Prism

The prism is completely redesigned to provide a compact but bright ghost image.

Aperture Control

Paddles vary the size of the eyepiece opening. Use them to dim light and to create more precise image alignments of ghost image and drawing. Sharp!

Integrated Shader

The integrated shader helps you control the amount of light on your subject. It’s like custom sunglasses for your NeoLucida!

It’s Ambidextrous

Easily switch the NeoLucida PLUS adjustable arm from left side to right side.

How Does it Work?

The NeoLucida is a modern reinterpretation of the 19th-century camera lucida, a forgotten optical drawing aid once used by artists, designers, scientists, and anyone who wanted to draw accurately from real life. When you look down into the eyepiece, you see a ghost image of your subject in front of you superimposed on your paper. You also see your hand and pencil so you can simply trace what you see!

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The NeoLucida PLUS Setup:

Clamp the NeoLucida Plus to a table or sturdy drawing boardBend the adjustable gooseneck so that the viewer is facing your subject and positioned over your paper.Look straight down into the viewer to see your page and a ghost image of your subject superimposedTrace what you see!

What Can I Draw with the NeoLucida Plus? Still Life Drawings

Set up a bouquet of flowers, a bowl of fruit, your favorite stuffed animal, or even a replica skull from anatomy class and capture it from any angle!

Portraits and Figure Drawings

Bring it along to your next figure drawing class for quick studies of human form. Have your friend pose for you and try making portraits!

Landscapes

Take a sturdy table outside and draw en plein air! (That’s art-speak for “drawing outside”!)

Image Copies

Set up the NeoLucida Plus to look at a printed image or a computer screen and make a hand-drawn copy!

How big can I draw with the NeoLucida?

Out of the box, it can draw up to US Tabloid (11”x17”)/A3 size. The size of the ghost image depends on the height of the eyepiece. Clamp the NeoLucida to a shelf or extended tripod for larger images. With a custom set up, you can draw much larger!

How close/far away can my subject be?

The NeoLucida has no optical focal limit. In practice, however, we recommend drawing subjects from 12in/30cm to infinity. We recommend starting with subjects placed about 3ft/1m away so you can get comfortable with the optics.

My vision isn’t great. Will the NeoLucida work for me?

Even if you use corrective lenses (glasses, contact lenses), you can use the NeoLucida. You have to place your eye fairly close to the eyepiece, so your glasses might touch the eyepiece during use.

The prism is completely redesigned to provide a compact but bright ghost image.
The integrated shader helps you control the amount of light on your subject. It’s like custom sunglasses for your NeoLucida!
Precision Aperture Control Paddles vary the size of the eyepiece opening. Use them to dim light and to create more precise image alignments of ghost image and drawing. Sharp!
Duluxe Edition includes both NeoLucida PLUS and NeoLucida XL eyepiece, and 3 (firm, balanced and soft.) NeoLucida x Blackwing speicial edition pencils.