A computer-implemented method of the present invention allows the user to draw or preview images using augmented reality. The method is implemented by a processor executing a marker-less tracking algorithm stored in a memory of a mobile computing device. The method comprises detecting, by a page detector, an image of a drawing area; initializing a marker-less tracker, wherein said initializing comprises (a) capturing, via the page detector, a frame of the drawing area, (b) displaying, via a graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing device, the frame of the drawing area, and (c) uniformly distributing template patches over the frame of the drawing area, and wherein the template patch is a fragment of texture of a template image used for surface tracking. The method further comprises executing a template patch tracking, wherein a perspective transformation of the template image to the frame as a current image is evaluated in video streaming on the GUI of the mobile computing device.
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