A bust-length ink portrait of a woman in three-quarter view with the most densely drawn eyes in the sketchbook sequence — the lashes and shadow above the lids built up with thick, insistent hatching until the eye sockets read almost black, anchoring the face with unusual weight. The gaze is directed upward and to the left, not meeting the viewer, but the heavy-lidded intensity of the eyes pulls the portrait together regardless of direction.
The hair is swept back from the face in loose, simple strokes, the volume indicated without strand-by-strand elaboration. The jaw below is broad and firmly set, a chin shadow indicated with diagonal marks. The neck transitions into a round neckline with a button — a simple garment, a person met and quickly drawn.
The chin shadow and the black eye sockets give the face an unusual tonal structure for the ink sequence — where most of these portraits are built from clean contour and selective interior marks, this one concentrates its darkness into two zones and lets the rest of the face remain bare paper. The contrast is the portrait's formal logic.
Among the female portraits in the sketchbook run, this is one of the most physically assertive — not the soft profiles or withdrawn gazes, but a face that takes up space with its brow and eye weight, announcing its presence even while looking away.