Drawing of rickshaw pullers resting under the shade of a tree - a scene from an old postcard featured in the book 'Singapore - 500 Early Postcards' by Cheah Jin Seng.
Drawing using an ink pen is something I do best. Not painting - that I have to labour over. Not using pencils because I am not good at shading. But ink drawings! Now that's what I like because there is no second chance if I make a mistake. It's like living on the edge. You cannot afford to let up on your concentration and you cannot afford to be careless. Glaring mistakes cannot be erased away. They can, at best, be covered up or camouflaged and if that is not possible, the drawing is useless. That is why when I do these ink drawings, the rest of the world does not exist. It is great to just live such moments at times. 
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