AR Drawing: Trace and Draw

Trace images through your camera

AR Drawing: Trace and Draw is an Art & Design app for people who want guidance while sketching on paper. It places a selected image over the camera view with adjustable transparency, so you can follow the visible lines as you draw. This makes it suitable for beginners practising basic shapes, portraits, anime-style images, or other subjects, as well as for more experienced artists planning a sketch.

Choose and prepare a reference

You can use a picture from your gallery or select an image from the app’s image library. An online image search is also available for finding references. Before tracing, resize, rotate, and reposition the image so it lines up with your paper. Coloured pictures can be changed into simpler outlines, which may make the drawing easier to follow.

A practical drawing aid

• Use the camera overlay to trace on paper while keeping the phone or tablet positioned above the drawing surface.
• Alternatively, place paper over the device screen and trace the displayed reference.
• Save a photo of finished work or record the drawing process as a video.

The app is best understood as a visual guide rather than an automatic drawing tool: you still make the marks yourself, while the overlaid reference helps with proportion and placement.

App details

AR Drawing: Trace and Draw is published by Veewa Labs and has a 4.36 rating from 5,078 reviews. With 500,000+ installs, it suits casual doodlers, learners, and anyone who wants a phone-assisted way to copy an image onto paper without relying on freehand reference alone.