Etchr Mirror, Worth the Money? (Art Supply Review + Coupon Code!)
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2018
- All you'd wanna know about the Etchr Mirror. Is it worth the money? I purchased a cheap mirror so we can compare. Does the cheap mirror outperform the more expensive Etchr mirror? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this purchase? No more lightboxes or transfer/tracing paper ever???
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LOL Apparently, Etchr's website says the price is $35 now. :D Yay for saving a dollar! (12/7/18)
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Magic Mirror
Etchr Mirror
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Uni Posca Markers
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*Some good questions and some answers for you guys!*
*C: It's not $35! It's $50!*
A: Sometimes the website gets buggy and will show the price in AUD (Australian dollars). It's 50 AUD and 35 USD. I spoke with Etchr and they said if you give the website a moment it should automatically adjust the price.
*Q: About what size can you work up to?*
A: I would say this heavily depends on the electronic device you are using the app on. If you're working on a tablet you'll be able to use more of your screen and the mirror's "real estate" and get more tracing done in one swoop. I have a droid mini (omfg so small) and it would be pretty painful to make a larger painting with having such a small screen. I would say up to 9x12 would be an ideal size and you could do larger but it depends on your device's size and also the amount of patience you have. Remember folks, different methods of tracing for different tasks. Use what is easiest for the situation!
*Q: Can you use it left handed?*
A: Yup, just switch it to the other side.
*C: Just use the cheap mirror with the app, it's the same thing, just cheaper.*
A: I broke out my cheap mirror and tried it. The app DOES work with the cheap mirror, but the tracing results are still just as bad with or without the app. It's also still very difficult to see through, not sure if it's simply because it's blue or thicker or a different material or what. You can use the app for 10 free trials, yes, but after that you need to sign up with the code in your Etchr box. HOWEVER! I suppose you could just re-download it over and over? Honestly, not sure why they provide free trials at all.. Another thing fair to mention is that a great selling point of this mirror is the stand, it tilts the screen and the mirror so that you don't have to tilt your head. But yeah, I still felt sick using the cheap mirror, even with the app. :(
*C: This is a toy, just use a lightbox.*
A: Can't use a lightbox to trace on dark/black/toned paper. Can't use a lightbox to trace onto canvas, underpainting or not. Can't use a lightbox to transfer onto clothing, shoes, or other items. Really thick paper? I guess you could lightbox that but you won't have great results if the light can't get through.
I do think that it's important to recognize the strengths of this item and acknowledge them. A lightbox is better at certain things, the mirror is better at others. It's all about picking the right tool for the task. The mirror isn't the end all for all tracing, but then again, neither is the lightbox.
Now it is 50$ USD and 71 Australia. Bummer
Hi do we need to have the code for the app??? I didn't get one
Never knew this thing existed. I think I'll just stick with the tablets with screen!! Gj!
I’ve been looking at light boxes for a few months now but honestly I think a mirror like this would suit me better.
Great to see another video from you!
Great Review! I was looking to buy this item, and your demo was fantastic. Really helped me!
Very interesting product! I can't say I've done something like this where you use a mirror to reflect your art in place of a light box, but the Etchr mirror looks fun to use. Nice review!
Oooooh that’s looks so Cool and interesting Lemi!! I never knew that exist.
YAY! It's so good to hear from you again, Lemi!
Thanks for the kind words, Pand! :) - Ânia
Yay lemi's back!! I missed you so much!! 😭😭💙💙✍✍🎨🎨
D'awwwww~! Thank you. T_T It's nice to feel missed!
Hello LemiaCrescent, what a lovely name. Happy I was surfing for reviews and information on: Optical Drawing Tools. I am in the market for this tool and I am convinced I will purchase it now that I've seen your review. I was about to purchase a cheap one; so I will invest in the Etchr Mirror. It is 1 year and 11 days since you made this review, your discount code still works! Thank you.
I recently saw this mirror thing online and wondered if it would be worth the money..I'm glad I came across your video and I'm also glad you were honest about it..I figured it would have its pros and cons like everything,but it sounds like it would work for me and my needs..I might invest in a lightbox later,but for the moment I need something more portable and something that requires less space because I'll be moving soon and I don't need anything extra to pack away..thanks for your honest review,I really appreciate it 😊
pretty neat :) i like that you can use it on dark paper that's pretty useful. Btw. i miss the hell out of you lemi!!!! Love you girlie!!
+Rosa B Art Rosaaa! I love you too! And miss you plenty! Hope you're having better luck with you know what. :))) Also yes! Dark paper or black paper is a major selling point for me with this item. It was ridiculously easy to transfer on to darker paper with this thing.
LemiaCrescent I’m having better luck indeed! You should get on discord sometime I can update you on everything! ❤️❤️ get so excited to see your videos! Hope you and your fam are doing well and having good holidays :3 💕
Honestly this is super cool. I want it 😂😍
Cool product! Maybe I'll try it out!
I'm a watercolour painter and I can absolutely see the benefit of this for use with thick paper. Thanks for your review.
I just heard of this item. There've been a lot of commercials for the Lucy, but I thought I'd try to find a cheaper version that had halfway decent reviews. This looks nice and the price isn't bad. I'm no great artist, but sometimes I'd like to replicate a picture but I've used tracing paper and even scribbling on the back of a page with graphite and then tracing the image, but I like the idea of this way better.
This would be really useful for doing the traditional version of flipping your canvas on digital! Or realising that you like it the other way around :D
I love this product
Thank you for the review. :)
looks very interesting !
I'm starting to work with illustration board and this would be useful, but it seems for like, small papers? 8.5 x 11? What about 11x17 or bigger?
Had you tried the luci light?
Could you trace right onto a digital sketch tablet with a stylus?
Thats actually kinda cool
Hello
Hi ZHC IM A BIG FAN
Great review! ☺
This is the kind of art product review that should be available for every product. Seriously Lemie, you knocked it out of the park on this one! 10/10 would force all CZcamsrs to research and review products this well (and I SUPER appreciated the comparison with a cheapo brand). Question 1: How large of a drawing can you transfer? the only problem is it seemed limited to a printer page size or less, and my watercolours are often twice that size or more. Question 2: Does it work fine if you are left-handed? Amazing use of the Posca pens and art on black paper too btw! WOW!
+aartadventure I'm so glad you liked my review so much! :) It's really a nice feeling when someone tells you that they appreciate all the effort you put into something. Thank you very much for that!
+aartadventure oops! And yes! It works left handed. :) Just switch to the other side.
@@LemiaCrescent That is super helpful. Thank you! ✨
You're good at drawing
Dont throw out the mirror! Theres a lot of really cool acrylic stuff you can do with a mirror as the canvas
Great idea. Or, at least take it to a charity shop. But yeah, I would paint on it with acrylics!
So use it as a painting surface? I wonder what else I could use this thing for! HMMM!
are you supposed to draw looking through the glass, or is the projection supposed to show up on the transfer paper ? you werent super clear on that and that kind of confused me but thank you for the review regardless xoxo
Get the same thing on Ebay for under $10 free delivery from China! Etchr have just imported it from China, labelled it and upped the price!
I can really see this being nice for opaque surfaces that you can't use a lightbox with like canvas or black paper. Especially if something you want to copy is not super detailed. Its really hard to see how good this really is in video form though, I know you were not able to get the same alignment as your eye view. It looks like it may be hard to make the artwork not tilted/slanted at all because of the angle of the mirror?
Will this work with a laptop screen?
What do u use the mirror for???
What do you use to record?
Um me and a freainds have a problem where one day I was looking though my feed and saw one of my favorite artist CZcams had done a video of drawing fans ocs and when I looked my best freainds oc was on the cover so I texted being super happy for her getting recognized when the artist had gave the oc credit to some else other than my freainds who I’ll call Cindy for now when we asked the yout7ber to give the oc credit back to my freaind Cindy becuase it was stolen the artist said the “creator” of the oc was a freaind of her and had proff it was her in the end we lost the oc and I was wondering about how to get it back any advice and tips would help
Hi Lemia Amazing Art 💙 You
WE HAVE THESE IN MY ART CLASS, i dont remember exactly what they do in that context i think we were doing polygons or something but we have these lmao
I haven’t seen this version of the mirror
i just take the small lamp on my desk and use that to trace if i absolutely HAVE to ( i really should stop doing that)
You can get a generic one on Amazon for less than £10, works just as well.
have you tried digital painting
There must be a limit to size - what is it?
Couldn't imagine using this instead of a light table. LED light tables are so cheap now.
You can get a great opaque projector on Amazon for $35
"what is a mirror "
We had these in elementary school for geometry. They cost like 10 dollars for us.
Usually, draw thumbnails in my sketchbook instead of wasting paper watercolour paper. Then I painstakingly hold both the drawing and the watercolour paper to my window :)
{I don't want to waste what little watercolour paper I have, I don't have that much to spend at the moment I'd rather eat for 3 weeks then draw for 3 days}
imma buy this when Christmas sales come around so I do not have to do that anymore!
Have you considered using tracing paper? I buy 40 sheets for $1 at the local dollar store and use that.
Reminds me of the digibro from the 90’s.
+Wally in the Alley ha you got me so curious I tried to Google it... All that popped up was some CZcams guy. XD
Oh how I miss your streams, Leno. I wish we could talk more with the gang, but maybe we’ll just have to wait on that. Is life going good for you? I’d say that it’s kind of okay for me. Do you have any tips for how to get me some inspiration? Because I’m kind of just uninspired to draw people like I used to. I just kind of take paint and slop it onto the canvas now, but I suppose it’s alright as long as I’m doing something. School has been a lot of tiresome and excessive work. I also have my eye on this girl, but I don’t really know if that’s going anywhere. I’m just kind of just a bucket of emotions waiting to spill over to them be refilled with more emotions and then repeated again. Anything exciting happen recently?
I also just watched Baylre Jae do a similar product review! It seems like a cool supply but I personally don't think I would ever use one. I also think every canadian student used something like this to learn math haha
+Hill ART pls pls pls tell me how on this planet something like this item taught you math! I'M SO CURIOUS! :)
I can relate about that math thing LOL. To answer Lemi's question, we would use it when we were learning about things like symmetry or when we were trying to take a shape and reflect it, as a part of the "transformations" unit :3
i live in canada and i remember using this in grade 3 for symmetry
@@palinanavitskaya6133 Ohhh! That's so interesting! Thanks so much for letting me know. :> We never did that over here..or when I was in school...who knows about now! ALL THEM WHIPPERSNAPPERS MAY HAVE THEIR MIRRORS OUT NOWADAYS! Back in my day we drew everything with our BARE HANDS! Hahaha I'm so old T.T
Yes! I got so nostalgic seeing it.
I use a lightbox it's so much easier to trace and draw my artwork.
I've missed you sweetie 😍😍
+ArtbyLizzie I messaged you but you disappeared, woman.
Your finished colored drawing is awesome! I like the idea of using the mirror for one thing, I myself drawing for over 40 years..I could never get my " perspective" ( angular drawings) right! Try drawing some one holding a guitar and the subject is turned a bit away... I draw the arms and hands and the drawing is horrible! Really!
Her voice reminds me of Lucy’s voice from fairytail.
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Good review :DD
Literally Baylee Jae just made a vid on this! I need this!
Amália Cardoso katvalk did too. It's like the company sent it out to a bunch of popular youtubers and told them to upload the reviews around the release date to drum up hype. 😉
Garnet lol ikr
Weird.. never seen anything like that before :0
7:16 black paper demo
Wow they just keep upping the price on this thing it's up to 49usd now
maybe tattoo artists could use this
Have you ever used this to trace a picture onto a rock that you would then paint?
I'm interested in using for the same thing. Did you purchase this product? If so, how's it working for you on rocks?
Up to $49 now :O
Omg i had something similar as a child xD
But it broke when I sat on it...
Have you tried not sitting on your art supplies? xP
The only thing good about this is the app but if I recall correctly the app isn't exclusive to the purchase of this doodad. So you could just get the app then use a cheap mirror and achieve the same results. Anything over 10 is too much for this novelty toy.
Really great point about the "just use the cheap one with the app and get the same results" thing. SO I BROKE OUT THE CHEAP MIRROR AND THE APP! lol
I used the cheap mirror with the app, then traced, and I got terrible results. It's on par with the other crappy results of the cheap mirror.
Did the app work with the mirror? Yes. However, It is still more difficult to see through than the etchr one..I'm guessing the dark blue color isn't helping? It is a thicker plastic material than the Etchr mirror, maybe that also has to do with it. Whatever way you cut it, it's difficult to see through.
The thing about the app is that you get to use it as a trial 10 times. I suppose you could just delete and re-download the software over and over? I'm not even sure why they give out free trials TBH.
Another thing is the stand with the etchr mirror is a lot more comfortable because it tilts the mirror/surface. The blue mirror with the upright stand hurts your neck/ and quite frankly made me sick. Not sure if I want to blame the sickness on the blue mirror or the head tilting...or maybe the combination of the two. I'm not sure.
Whatever way you cut it...the blue mirror is a waste of time/money IMHO. :)
$9 on Amazon
fourth!
Y r so many people reviewing this thing? xD either way, good review
Because they are sending YT artists one's for free to review and doing it during vlogmas don't hurt.
Most likely trying to get their product out there and it may be a great xmas gift for young artists to use. So, if a young artist sees their fav youtube artist liking the product then that would influence them to ask for the device for christmas. :3
I searched it up. It showed $50.
Ya it’s priced as 35 but 49 with tax and shipping and such
+Creativa Artly No, that's 50 AUD, not USD. It's 35 American. I guess their website is buggy.
LemiaCrescent oh ok thx!
@@amalia2390 You're super welcome! I let them know for you. Maybe they can fix the problem. :)
Hi! Yeah, the website loads the price in AUD first, since everything is processed in AUD during checkout, and then on all other currencies. So sorry for the confusion! - Ânia
I kind of worry that this is just going to make tracing traditionally accessible. Like what's stopping a user from loading up the app with art that isn't theirs and tracing it to make it seem genuine or to sell?
People can trace, copy, and steal artwork regardless of the medium. Anyone spending more than $10 on artwork should be smart enough to research the artist and see if their style is consistent etc. If you commission them, look at previous works they've made. Also you can ask for work-in-progress pictures if you're unsure. As an artist, I know there will always be others that cheat to try and benefit off others hard work. I have accepted it and know that most people are not duped anymore by such fakes. There are some very easy ways to find out if they're stealing, like reverse image searching.
Maybe you're just allergic to cheap crap :D
Lol im a digital artist :D
*Sksk*
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