Hungarian horned Dragon Concept

My friend is in the middle of his honors project and asked a bunch of people (Myself included) to come up with a design based off his description; Black skin, yellow eyes and bronze horns and spikes.
Most people did designs based off Bearded dragons with wings but I tried to do something a little different.

2D animation Test (Still working on it!)

For a week and a half now I've been practising my 2D animation skills. I've taken a audio clip to practice with phonemes and to get out of my comfort zone more.

Here's my progress so far,

it's been taking myself to animate this 5 second sequence for almost over a week and a half. I feel at this point it's taking a little longer than I hoped for.

So far I'm happy with what I've made so far, the pose to pose and the character motion to the audio compliment one another quite nicely.

I'm hoping I can finish this soon so to focus on other work in the future. Preferably 3D animation