The drawing presents a very attractive cameo of browns thanks to the use of different pencils such as Charcoal, and dark and clear Sepia pencil. This last one warms the range of colors by opening towards the red browns. The paper Canson ®, called middle-tint, is slightly colored: it allows to obtain fine nuances in the volumes. Articulated around the subject of the chess game, this drawing is very representative of SYL's work, in which the artist applies herself to the graphic quality, to the color, and to the expression of the image. The feminine silhouette represents the Queen. The transparency, mixing the character and the landscape together, confers lightness and universality. The head is bent under the weight of the reflection, the character is represented in a position of meditation: the chees game which sometimes takes place in everyone's mind ...