A Promise in Pen & Ink

An Artwork A Day, SketchBlog  /   /  By Rica Espiritu  /  188 views

We were seatmates back when we were in high school. I loved doodling back then. I even doodled on my classmates’ notebooks when I got bored. She loved my sketches back then that she made me promise to do a naked portrait of her. After a few pounds and decades later, we met again during our high school reunion. She reminded me of my promise. I laughed and nodded that it was still ‘on’. This time, she wanted a sketch of her family. I obliged.

Here’s a close up of the sketch:

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