Fairies on birds?

I saw a painting of a fairy riding a bird and I to try it myself. But I had to arm my fairies.  Because.

First I tried some markers, then some smaller water-colour-markers.  The bottom one I just inked by hand then painted in Photoshop - I think I like it the most so I am gonna try a few more pieces like that, I think.  More practice painting, even just kinda half-ass-shading like I did here is good practice.  Gotta ease into painting more.