Smart Sketcher SSP213 Learn to Draw, Blue/White

Works great

My grand girls absolutely love this there ages are 4 and 7. Great gift!

So the way this projects stuff is like a small pixelated grid; think a cross stitch pattern. If you want super finely detailed images you can trace perfectly, this might not be right for you. Mostly, I use it for lettering. I’m terrible and slow at it and this helps loads.PROS:-Easy set up-Cheapest thing on the market-Excellent for lettering and simple patterns-Saves a lot of time v. transfers-Lightweight, sturdyCONS:-You can’t really adjust images as you go; you need image editing software and fiddling around with sizes for a bit. I set up a template to speed up the process. Photopea or GIMP = free software. Trying to lower or raise the device yields blurry images. Not ideal.-Very small details will get lost. For some images I was only ablr to lay down a few dots of icing as a rough outline, then I had to free hand the rest. But it allowed to keep the images neat and consistent, so it WAS helpful. It just didn’t do most of the work like you might expect.

Purchased for my 12 year old grandson who found drawing concepts a challenge. He found the sketcher easy to use, motivational and helped with getting a grasp on drawing.

I bought two of these to give my two young grandchildren for Christmas. They appeared to be as advertised. There are extra Activity packs available, which I bought.

If you take a snapshot of your face, you can download it one of 3 ways. The 3rd way is via full color (not just black and white). I wondered why there were no examples in the video demostrations showing the full color down load and now I know why. If you download the full color picture, the projected image is so light you cannot not see it unless the room is in total darkness and then it is a bit of a hassle. Works fine with black and white the device generates. This is using full scale light usage. Also, once you use uyour phone to connect to the projecter, there is no way to exit the program short of pulling down your master phone menu and do a close all windows.

When I first considered buying this for my six-year-old I was a bit tentative because of all the negative reviews I've seen on here. Luckily because of our Prime Membership I knew that I had enough time to return it if I needed to so I gave it a shot.So far, it's been great. Our Amazon Prime package came in pristine condition. We've only had it open for about 3 days and it seems to be working the way it's intended as well as reading the content card that came with it as well as a jungle animals card we bought in edition. It is also working well with the Bluetooth on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S8) to add our own pictures.There are a lot of comments about how the pictures weren't clear but I'm not sure if the people were going into it with accurate expectations. This is a $50 toy not a pro drawing implement. It's a little pixelated but we easily sketched pictures of ourselves and I personally thought it did a great job of converting color photographs into black and white pictures suitable for sketching.Overall I'm very happy with it and so is my daughter. She is loving it! My thought is to give it a try and if it comes damaged, send it back. I will be sure to update this review if anything changes. Have fun sketching!

#1: you don't need batteries! AC adapter is included!#2: Android app is extremely user friendly and easy to use.Bought for a 9 year old for 2019 Christmas. We didn't use the included SD card, rather jumped right to the app feature.Pictures uploaded on app are pixelated, which helps to keep the tracing organized. It makes it easier to keep track of edges as well as keep track of what you are doing. Kudos to development team on that decision.After you initially open the app, you must register for a user account. The app is connected via Bluetooth to the hardware. Connectivity worked extremely well. We disconnected and connected 3 times over the day and never had an issue.This was a big hit with all of my kids, each anxiously waiting for a turn. The interested ages were 4 and 6 (boys) 9 and 11(girls); my artistically inclined and angsty 13 year old was not interested at all.I used it as well. I think it's a bit difficult to follow, but the kids didn't seem to mind when their tracing resulted in Picasso-like portraits.This will keep interested kids busy for hours. One photo upload-tracing takes about 30 minutes (15 minutes for the Picassos)