Drawing & Tracing Guides
Learn how to trace pictures onto paper, turn photos into stencils, and use your phone as a tracing projector or lightbox.
How to Trace a Picture Onto Paper
Four ways to trace any picture onto real paper — a sunlit window, a lightbox, your phone as a virtual projector, and AR tracing. No printer needed for most.
How to Use Your Phone as a Tracing Projector
Your phone can't physically project images — but a camera-overlay tracing app does the same job. Setup, stabilisation tips, and common mistakes.
How to Use Your Phone as a Lightbox for Tracing
Turn your phone screen into a mini tracing lightbox: display the image at full brightness, lay thin paper on top, and trace. Here's how to do it safely.
How to Make a Stencil From a Photo
Turn any photo into a clean, traceable stencil: what makes a good source photo, how AI line extraction works, and how to get from stencil to finished drawing.
What Is AR Drawing? Augmented Reality Tracing Explained
AR drawing anchors a virtual image to your real sheet of paper so you can trace it — no projector, no printing. How it works and when to use it.
Does Tracing Help You Learn to Draw?
Tracing isn't cheating — it's how artists have trained for centuries. What tracing actually teaches, its limits, and how to use it deliberately.
Trace anything with Stencly
Camera, Lightbox, and AR tracing modes, a 2,400+ template library, and AI-generated custom stencils — all on your phone.