--- title: "An AI art and art history tutor | DuckyHelper" url: "https://duckyhelper.com/subjects/art/" description: "An AI art tutor that shows how pictures work: perspective drawn on a picture you can change, paintings explained part by part, art history read with you." updated: "2026-10-09" --- Mac app # An AI art and art history tutor that shows how it works DuckyHelper is an AI art tutor that shows you how a picture is built. Ask how perspective drawing works and Eddy draws a chair in two-point perspective with its vanishing lines; press Raise the horizon and watch the view change. Ask why Van Gogh painted the way he did and you look at the brushwork with labels. Then read the art history with real sources, in the DuckyHelper Mac app. [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/)[Meet Eddy](https://duckyhelper.com/eddy/) [All films](https://duckyhelper.com/films/#affinity) One question, shown ## See how a picture is built Two questions from our films. For perspective, one picture and one button teach the whole idea. ### How does perspective drawing work? Eddy draws a chair with its edges running to two vanishing points on the horizon line. Every edge going left meets at one point and every edge going right meets at the other. That is two-point perspective: find the horizon, place the two points, and every box-shaped thing in the room follows them. Art history ## Read the history, see the work Press Research (Cmd + E) and read the Wikipedia article on a movement or an artist with Eddy. Select a sentence to ask about it, or press Listen and Eddy reads it aloud. A real photo of a painting from Wikipedia comes with its credit and works on any plan. [Guide: research and reading](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/research/) Sources you can check When Eddy researches a question, it quotes only paragraphs it actually read and builds a short brief with numbered citations. Step into a picture Press Fill the desktop and a picture becomes a World: it fills Eddy's desk and keeps drawing while Eddy talks. Escape brings you back. Draw it yourself ## Your turn with the pencil [A quick whiteboard In Eddy, press Whiteboard (Cmd + B) for a small board to sketch on, then ask Eddy about what you drew.](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/eddy/whiteboard/) [A shared whiteboard (Mac app) Open the whiteboard from the menu bar: you and Ducky both draw on it with a pen, shapes, text and an eraser, and Ducky's lines appear stroke by stroke as it talks.](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/mac/whiteboard/) [Your own canvas (Mac app) Press fn over a drawing in any app and ask about it. Ducky sees it while the pill is open and points at the part it means.](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/mac/sees-your-screen/) ## Ask Eddy Say one of these out loud. Eddy picks how to show it: words, a picture or the board. What made Impressionism different? Why do complementary colors look brighter together? Quiz me on Renaissance painters [Download for Mac](https://duckyhelper.com/download/) ## How to use it [Guide: Your first lesson with Eddy](https://docs.duckyhelper.com/start/first-lesson/) ## Frequently asked questions ### Can an AI tutor teach drawing techniques like perspective? It can explain them with a picture. Ask about perspective and Eddy draws an object with its horizon line and vanishing points, then lets you change the picture with a button such as Raise the horizon to see what moves. The drawing practice is yours. ### Can it help with art history? Yes. Ask about a movement, an artist or a painting and Eddy explains it and shows the work, with labels for what to look at. Read the Wikipedia article with Eddy for the dates and sources, and quiz yourself after. ### Are Eddy's pictures real paintings? A made picture is drawn by DuckyHelper to explain an idea, so it is not the original artwork. For the real painting, ask Eddy to look it up: a real photo from Wikipedia comes with its source credit. ### Does it work in a browser? Not right now: DuckyHelper is a Mac app (macOS 14 or later, Apple silicon), with no web version. In the app, made pictures and picture edits are part of Plus and up, and Ducky helps over your own canvas. ## More subjects ### Math: worked steps, moving graphs, and hints before the answer An AI math tutor that explains one move at a time: worked steps, graphs you can move, hints before answers. In the Mac app, right over your homework. ### Biology: labelled pictures you can tap, read and quiz yourself on An AI biology tutor that answers with labelled pictures: ask how blood clots or how muscles move, tap any part to ask more, then quiz yourself. On a Mac. ### Chemistry: see the atoms, then work the equations step by step An AI chemistry tutor that shows what atoms are doing: labelled pictures of bonds, steps for every equation, quizzes and flashcards. 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On a Mac. ## Keep reading ### Try Eddy: four things to say out loud in your first minute Try Eddy in the DuckyHelper Mac app: open the Eddy tab, press Talk to Eddy and ask one of these questions out loud. ### Eddy: the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app's Eddy tab Eddy is the voice tutor in the DuckyHelper Mac app: talk out loud and it teaches on a blackboard, with labelled pictures, quizzes and your own homework file. ### A picture made for your question, labelled as Eddy explains; tap any part to ask about it Ask Eddy to show you and a picture made for your question comes into focus, labelled as Eddy explains. Tap any part to ask about it, or change it. ### Wikipedia, books and science pages in a clean reader; Eddy quotes only what it read, with numbered sources Read Wikipedia, classic books and science pages with Eddy in a clean reader. Eddy quotes only paragraphs it read, with numbered sources, and reads aloud. ### Every subject: one question per subject, shown on screen DuckyHelper is an AI tutor for any subject: math, the sciences, history, writing, languages, code, music and art, each explained out loud and shown on screen. ## Look closer at a picture Get the Mac app, open the Eddy tab and ask your art question out loud. [See what it does](https://duckyhelper.com/features/) The Mac app needs Apple silicon and macOS 14 Sonoma or later. There is no Chromebook, Windows or web version right now.