A large pencil standing figure drawing — the full figure from crown to feet, seen nearly frontally with the body slightly turned. The upswept hair creates a high silhouette at the top, the face briefly described in three-quarter profile just below it. The arms hang at the sides, the body in the natural standing posture of someone comfortable being observed.
The figure is drawn with the tonal pencil approach: shadow zones built at the chest, waist, and hip, each zone built from multiple overlapping marks. The result has genuine three-dimensionality — this is a body in space, not a body on a surface.
The feet at the lower composition are described with the characteristic attention: both feet visible, weight distribution apparent. The drawing ends just at the figure's lower edge, the paper below providing generous space.
The frontal orientation — the figure facing more or less toward the viewer — gives this drawing its sense of direct, unmediated presence. Most life drawings show the figure in some degree of profile; this one looks back across the space of the studio.