A large, directly frontal pencil portrait — a young woman seen straight on, her face centered and symmetrical, her bangs cut straight across the forehead with particular care in the rendering. The face is tightly described: the eyelids heavy with lashes drawn in multiple fine parallel marks, the nose modeled from multiple directions, the lips individually drawn. This is one of the most fully tonal pencil portraits — shadow at the eye sockets, under the chin, on the neck — the face having genuine volume.
The bangs are the most technically specific hair element in the portrait series: straight-cut, each individual hair rendered in a fine parallel mark descending from the crown to the brow, the overall mass creating a strong horizontal that frames the face from above. Below the bangs, the face is fully engaged.
A round-neck T-shirt at the shoulder and chest grounds this in the simplest possible clothing — no decoration, no specificity, the garment entirely subordinate to the face above it.
Signed "Sid" at lower left. The tonal quality and the frontal directness give this portrait an unusual gravity — this face is seen completely, without evasion.