Again and again, when we’re drawing, we might have the feeling that the picture is not exciting enough. How can we change that? We can do it through proportions. They’re a good way to make a drawing exciting. To do this, we need to exaggerate the proportions – way larger and way smaller – to achieve this tension. What does that do in the picture? It creates a three-dimensionality. A very large element and a tiny element enter a relationship with each other and create a space in our imagination. That's important to understand, and that's why in this impulse I want to go deeper into the question of proportions. I would like to do so with a thing that we no longer encounter on a daily basis, but that everyone knows: the matchstick.
