The shape-shifting djinni, Bartimaeus, as he used to appear in Alexandria around 125 B.C. He sometimes takes on a similar form nowadays, but without the mane. "Manes are very overrated," he says, "okay, they're good for posing, but they block out all your side vision in battle." (-Jonathan Stroud, The Bartimaeus Trilogy Book 3: Ptolemy's Gate)
But I wanted to draw the mane. ^_^

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