The matchstick – composition of shapes and structure

Drawing Impulses

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.