The Top Dog with upgraded street credibility

I'm just working on the very last bits of a project that started already some three years ago. For sort of a mascot for the whole project I illustrated a dog character, Top Dog (here's some sketches of the Top Dog and here's the finished Top Dog character).

The Top Dog had to be kind of laid-back fellow with some street credibility. Initially I drew the character carrying a spray can, but as a school book can't be too wild the spray can was obviously a bit too much - totally understandable - and it got replaced by a thick marker pen.

Now that I've been practising with my new drawing toys (iPad Air + Intuos creative stylus + Procreate app) I often end up drawing just something stupid. This time I decided to draw the Top Dog with upgraded street credibility. In addition to the spray can that got banned I also tried a bit edgier drawing style. A dog bone must be the thing such a fellow would spray on a wall.