Once told he couldn’t draw, a Singaporean artist is set to take on the kids’ entertainment industry
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Peter Draw created the first iteration of Ai, the boy with the blue scarf and red sweater, after his grandfather died in 2001.
ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM
SINGAPORE – For a boy who was once told he could not draw, Singaporean Peter Draw has sketched a life full of artistic milestones.
You may not be familiar with his moniker – he adopted it as a teenager when children could not pronounce his surname, Zhuo – but you might have seen the adorable Ai and his dog Aiko on a GIF (graphics interchange format) somewhere.

