A large pencil figure drawing of a kneeling figure — the pose seen in three-quarter profile, the figure balanced on both knees with the torso upright and the face in profile at the upper right. The kneeling pose is the most classically composed in the pencil figure series: the body centered in the composition, the profile face providing the upper terminus, the feet providing the lower.
The body is described with sustained tonal attention — the shadow at the armpit, along the waist, at the hip — building the figure's volume through multiple soft pencil layers. The shadow marks work in both directions: the darker zones recede, the lighter paper zones advance, creating genuine spatial illusion.
The face in profile is the most thinly described element — a few marks establishing the nose, the mouth, the chin — but its placement at the upper right gives the composition its directional energy. This figure is looking toward something beyond the frame.
Both feet at the lower composition are given toe-by-toe attention, the knees and the arches of the feet described with the characteristic Cothran care. The vast white paper below and to the right of the figure gives the kneeling form an unusual spaciousness.