Loved it👌

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Heel mooi gedaan vyshnav!👍🏼

Vyshnav, this came out really well. Your highlights read clean and the values hold together nicely, and you got there with an eraser instead of following the tutorial exactly. That is not a mistake, that is problem solving, and it is a good sign in a student.

On the pastel pencil, I think I know what is happening. Strathmore Bristol is a very smooth surface, almost no tooth. White pastel needs a little texture to grab onto, so on Bristol it mostly just slides across the top and barely marks. That is the paper, not you. Two options. Do your lift outs with the eraser the way you already did, which is a perfectly good method and a lot of artists prefer it for skin. Or tape a small piece of rougher paper next to it, something with a bit more tooth, and try the white pastel there just to see the difference for yourself.

You are doing the right thing by testing on different paper with different pressure. Keep going like that and keep posting Vyshnav.