These are copious drawings of figures by Khalil Ibrahim using the fat Montel pen grasped by his left hand, and which had filled innumerable sketchbooks. Such was his telepathy that such scenes just appeared like magic on the paper, without having to refer to any real scene in front. He can be in the market, at home, in a teh-tarik stall chatting with artist friends, or on the bus on a long journey. Therein lay the strengths of Khalil's figures, male or female, that he could start with any part of the anatomy and find the same high level of accomplishments. Often too, a horizontal bar either full or truncated, on top or at the bottom, acts as a stabilizing plank to the 'floating' figures. Khalil Ibrahim graduated with a National Diploma of Design in Fine Arts at the prestigious St. Martin's School of Art and Design in London in 1964 (post-graduate in 1965). He turned into a full-time artist in 1966. Khalil was a co-founder of the Malaysian Watercolour Society and had his first double solo of London works and Malaysian batiks at Samat Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in 1970. That year, he also had a solo exhibition in Indonesia, the first Malaysian to have done so. He has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Switzerland and his works have been collected by the National Museum in Singapore, Fukuoka Museum of Art in Japan, New South Wales Museum of Art in Sydney, and the Royal National Art Gallery of Jordan.