A large figure drawing focusing on the lower half of the body — hips, buttocks, and legs — seen from directly behind. This is a compositional study of pure form: the curved plane of the hip creates the upper boundary, below which the legs descend separately to the feet. The drawing is executed in blue pencil on the characteristic warm cream paper of this figure drawing series.
The blue pencil gives these drawings a distinctive tonal quality — not the warmer gray of graphite or the darker black of ink but a cool, slightly formal blue that creates emotional distance even while describing the most intimate physical forms. This blue is consistent throughout this group of figure drawings, suggesting they were made in a sustained series, possibly in a single class or life drawing session over multiple sittings.
The line quality throughout is confident and economical — single strokes describing the major contours, brief shadow marks indicating the forms' volume. The feet at the very bottom of the composition are given careful attention: the toes individually suggested, the ankle described with particular specificity.
The composition is cropped: we see neither the torso above nor the ground below. This fragment-view, focusing on the formal qualities of a single body region, is characteristic of sustained life drawing practice — the artist choosing to study one thing at a time, deeply rather than broadly.