tends to improve with age but even at 10years old, proportion within figures and single objects are not depicted very accurately. There is also a difficulty with proportion between objects, especially in depth. That an object that is further away looks smaller and one that is near looks larger is a distinct problem and most children resolve this by using the top and bottom of the paper to represent far and near respectively. By contrast the anomalous draughts men can, from a very early age (5to6 years) represent objects in depth in proportional relation to each other.