OCs: Inferno Sketch Pratice

A sort of continuation of my African wild dog sketches. 

One of my earliest characters was a red dog wielding fire powers, huge ears and lanky limbs. While he's received a TON of development during the more than a decade since I created him, drawing him has always been a struggle.
I applied  what I learned from the previous studies to make a detailed sketch of Inferno and then took a few gradual hops in simplifying to try to find a style that fits with how I draw humanoid characters.

Technically he has a humanoid form which is his true form and "Inferno" is his dog form alias....BUUUUUT that development wasn't added to his back story until a year or two after his original inception. >///>