Jinn Tales - Musmus, the Jinn of Tales (STEP BY STEP) (Patreon)

 Musmus, the Jinn of Tales! When the summoning of the Jinn by the hand of the vizier went wrong, they all broke out of their bounds - but Musmus was left behind. Still on his lamp Musmus was found by Azhar, and with a pact, granted him Jinn powers. He is the navigator character!

 He's very snarky and a know it all, the other Jinn usually despise him because they think he's annoying. Let's go to the step by step! (:

> Laying down my gesture! Musmus is slender with a long hair, having a serpentine appearance. Wanted to make the pose very flowy to make the most out of those characteristics! After laying down my gesture drawing, I made an anatomy pass to give him structure. His legs are long, and his waist is tiny!

> After that I put down the clothes over the figure, and worked on his head. I noticed the canvas was pretty blank and it reminded me of his weapon, that is a scroll. It worked nicely with my gesture. Don't be afraid to go testing things while you're doing a piece, it'll definitely work to your favor. Even if you don't use the idea, the process of doing it and assessing if it looks cool or not is a precious learning experience.

> Before working on this sketch I remember working on another one a week before. It looks cool but I wanted to do it again!

>Ok, proceeding to the lineart! There was a bunch of loooong lines which took me a while. But in the end it worked out!

> Color sketch! I've been trying to make that an habit and it's been working on my favor tbh! Musmus has a strong orange palette, and Azhar kinda borrows from it when he transforms.

> Base hard shadows!

> The gesture from the body and scroll integrated nicely together, but I really think the magical aspect of the picture had no momentum to compensate all the flowiness. If he's doing such a dramatic motion, probably something has to be happening right? Not only a glowy scroll. I decided to make other elements popping out of it, and It was very fun. I made a lotus flower and a ringneck parrot!