A bust-length ink portrait of a broad, heavy-set face in three-quarter view, the gaze directed upward and to the right. The face is described with a mix of clean outer contour and dense interior hatching at the nose and mouth — the nose's bridge and the area above the upper lip built up with multiple ink strokes, giving those zones a tonal density that the rest of the face does not have.
The head is large within the composition, filling most of the available paper, the ears barely indicated at the sides. The hair above is minimal — a few strokes at the crown suggesting its short cropping. The neck and upper chest below are barely sketched, the face dominant over everything else on the page.
The upward-turned gaze with the face's downward weight creates the portrait's tension — the eyes looking up while the full jaw and heavy features pull toward the bottom of the composition. This counterforce gives the face a quality of reluctant aspiration, a heaviness that is looking for something above itself.
Among the heavy-set male portraits in the sketchbook sequence — Work 1380 (White T-Shirt, Young), Work 1363 (The Broad Face) — this one is the most densely tonal in the face's central zone, the ink building volume around the nose and mouth that the cleaner outer contour does not provide elsewhere.