Learning to Ink Cute Animals

First I made an image board on Pinterest LINK: https://au.pinterest.com/alissapuurunen/owls/

Blind sketches:

Here are some practise eyes and mouths:  

I started experimenting with shapes and curves. This is my first time drawing with ink. I used watercolour brushes with black ink and white ink: 

Above is a photo of the finished inking for the final picture.

Here it is again in different lighting:

 I added some colour with colour pencils. I'm not 100% happy with how this turned out but I feel like I am learning from the mistakes.