Awkward Teens

I wanted to draw an older Spike, and somewhere along the line I wanted to draw a Spike between his bipedal 'child' age and the eventual 4 legged adulthood I believe he'll grown into. So this is the result.

I struggled with some things but I'm not that disappointed with the final result

I'm also trying to not be as stupid with my colours and shading and tried to make it nicer. I'm not sure if this is what I want, but I think it's a step in the right direction.
I need to be more daring with my contrasts more though. I feel this is perhaps still too 'safe'.

But it's not bad

Thanks for the feature EQD