A full standing figure drawing on brown paper — the warmest ground in the figure drawing series, the brown giving the pencil marks an immediate intimacy. The figure stands with both arms raised and extended outward — the left arm bent upward with the fist clenched, the right arm extending broadly to the right in a wide, generous gesture. This is the most expansive pose in the standing figure drawings: the body takes up maximum space, arms spread, the posture one of openness or exhilaration.
The figure is described from crown to feet — the face in three-quarter profile with a slight, engaged expression, the body from neck to ankle rendered with confident pencil contour. The brown paper allows the pencil to show both light and dark relationships: the figure's lit side reads as warm brown, the marks building the shadow zones against this ground.
The feet are described with the characteristic Cothran attention: both feet visible, weight distribution apparent, the toes individually present. The most completely resolved element of the lower body.
The brown paper ground connects this figure to the earlier large brown-paper portraits, suggesting a period when Sidney worked on kraft or similar papers — a different formal relationship between mark and ground than the white and cream papers provide.