A large charcoal figure drawing of unusual energy — the figure standing and bending forward at the waist, the head hanging down and forward, the arms extending or dangling. The charcoal is used at its most gestural: rapid, overlapping marks building the figure's form without deliberation, the drawing process visible in the multiple lines.
The head is the most intensely described zone: the hair falls forward in multiple charcoal strokes, each stroke following the hair's direction as it hangs down from the bent head. The face is barely visible — a few marks indicating the profile — entirely subsumed by the forward-hanging hair mass.
The body below the bent torso is described in broader strokes: the hip at the right, the legs descending from it, the feet at the lower composition. The gestural quality of the charcoal marks matches the physical energy of the pose — this figure is in motion, or at the edge of motion.
The charcoal's capacity for immediate mark-making suits this bending, hanging, energetic pose. The drawing has the quality of having been made quickly, the charcoal following the body's energy with its own.