Drawing of figure in profile with curly hair smoking pipe, black ink on orange paper

1984

Dwight Mackintosh

Date: 1984
Dimensions: 8.5 × 11 in
Categories: people
Visual description: A black ink or marker drawing on tall orange paper depicts the side view of a figure facing left from the shoulders up to the head. Fast, tightly wound spirals that lean upwards and towards the right depict thick, closely-cropped hair that curls down past the figure's ear and stops just before touching the figure's shoulder. The body of the figure is depicted with a line that begins on the bottom of the paper a few inches from the left side, travels up and slightly to the right, makes a rounded turn to the right 1/3 of the way up the paper, travels right and slightly upward, before making another rounded turn downwards a few inches from the right side of the paper, and then travels down and slightly leftward until reaching the bottom edge of the paper. Another line comes up from the bottom of the paper just to the left of center, makes a rounded U-turn, and comes back to the bottom edge of the paper just to the right of center to describe the shoulder of the figure. The figure's eye is depicted just above and to the left of center by a black dot, surrounded a small circle, surrounded by two concentric ovals with short perpedicular tic marks, surrounded by a wider oval that abuts the left edge of the figure's face. Above the figure's eye is an upwardly arched line depicting an eyebrown. Below and slightly to the right of the eye is a small circle. Below and to the left of the eye is a small, tear-drop shaped nose with a circular nostril. Below the nose, a tall, narrow triangle descends towards a thin mouth. Below the mouth, the figures large rounded chin juts out to the left with two parallel lines that, upon finishing describing the chin, curve backwards and diagonally up across the face to meet the ear and describe a jawline. The ear is made of two concentric upside-down tear drop-like shapes. The figure is wearing a tight necklace just below their chin, described by two parallel lines that span the figure's neck straight across to end, on the right side, where the figure's hair touches their neck.