A bust-length ink portrait of a young person with the most energetically marked hair in the sketchbook sequence — short-cropped but described with dense, overlapping diagonal strokes that give it a quality of static or wind-driven agitation, the marks going in several directions at once. One eye carries a heavy black shadow, giving the face an asymmetry that reads as emotional rather than accidental.
The face itself is drawn in three-quarter view, looking slightly upward and to the left. The features are placed with relative economy compared to the hair's expressiveness — a single mark for the brow, the eye socket's shadow, the nose and lips briefly stated. The collar and neckline below are indicated with minimal marks, the garment barely described.
This portrait sits between the relative discipline of the early sketchbook portraits and the full expressionism of Work 1390 (The Slashed Face) — the hair treated as an expressive field while the face maintains its clarity. The asymmetry of the heavily shaded left eye against the barely marked right eye gives the portrait an off-balance quality that is compelling rather than unresolved.
The youth of the subject — the face still open, the features not yet settled into their permanent arrangement — combined with the hair's agitation gives the drawing a quality of caught motion, a person in the middle of becoming something.