Jijing Fengbao

I like the color scheme, it gives him a rustic feel, like a Chinese pottery or traditional clay sculpture.

I've drawn dragons for about 7 years now and I can give you some advice on smoke, don't let it all puff into a small cloud unless it's supposed to be an angry bull-style signify that the character is mad. letting it trail upwards until the picture ends or letting it fade gives it a more smokey feel and will better enhance the effecn But past that, I have a whole anatomy thing that I made just for this so I could point out some things that can help in general!  

Alight! So I did this sketch of Jijing Fengbao's Anatomy (At least in my style, we'll get to that) so I could give you some pointers, as I notice anatomy the most in drawing.

these things I'm adding are based of my experience and might vary.

When sketching past beginner's it'll become hard to define the shape of what you want to draw unless you're REALLY good at picturing it in your head or you have practiced the topic for years (I used to do this with dragons). However, in either of these cases (including dragons) It's a big help to put these things in your picture before anything else.

ANATOMY CIRCLES.

anatomy circles are your blueprint (Hence why they're drawn in blue  ) for drawing and it helps to put these down before drawing as not only will they give your picture more shape, but they'll also help making sure that all features are the right size and of equal length. putting in lines between them (I prefer to put my lines on the outline of a body part, e.g a leg or neck, but some people prefer to put them in the middle) helps you figure out the shape of an object connecting two features, and it identifies - this neck is curved, this is a straight leg, ect. You might think that's unneccesary because well - you know that from doing the picture. but our brains tend to get caught up on what we're doing and without those guidelines on your pony you'll end up drawing things a bit wonky. Another thing before I continue is that forlegs (arms in bipeds like humans, forelegs in things like ponies and guinea pigs.) and rear/hind legs have around four joints in a pony, which to accommodate anthromorphized gestures aren't correctly jointed as they would be in real life have a lot of angle to use, and because of this it's important to remember that point 1 (the shoulder) is always in the same spot, Point 2 is always a reflex in behind, Point 3 is always an acute-to reflex and the hoof point/point four follows the same rule. Hind legs are easier, just being that none of them can be reflex and joint two must always be acute. if they ever go past these limits (Highlighted in two, red) they'll look disjointed. I noticed Jijing's left hind leg was a bit straight from these limits which makes it look a bit odd. this applies to the body too! If you stretch the torso circles too far apart the pony will look a bit like a sausage dog, too close and they'll look squashed. make sure that the back is going down or up to meet the torso, but never straight. some of the rules might vary a bit (you'll pick up your own for your own drawing style, you probably already have lux), and this is coming from my drawing style, which is very... angular. (Things that I think are purely designed my style, such as the exaggerated ankle joints are in yellow)

Another thing is -

PERSPECTIVE. (spective...spective....spective..)

This is easily the most important thing to do when having clear non-messy artwork (unlike mine) done in outline pen like yours, because a simple flick of pen here and there and it can look a bit strange. I can't give you as much help here because my experience is with art that has enough lines to do perspective without it. make sure your pictures is           always looking from a specific view only, as anything else will confuse the viewier. once you've got your shot, make it so anything closer is on top of your layers (photoshop) and anything further away will be lit darker in shadows or will be fainter. this might seem trivial but it's actually essential otherwise you will clutter your pony.

A final note is that this is a really nice color scheme, and what I gave you is just a few pointers. keep it up!

Thanks for the tips! Always looking for advice to improve! 

Actually, this was my first attempt at a dragon creature.

As for coloring and what a traditional Chinese dragon looks like, I have this image (not by me) of a traditional festival dragon: