First attempts to paint in pastels

It seems that I have not written on the voice for several thousand years, but no, only a month. I actively studied this month in an illustration: I took courses on Adobe Illustrator from Pixel (I didn’t like these courses, they were too primitive), I tried to paint pastel for the first time, of course, with my girlfriend.
At first it looked rather clumsy, like daubing with crayons, but after I had shaded the colors with my finger and made smooth transitions, it became much better, even for the first time.
Of course, I didn’t take the stages, because I didn’t believe that something beautiful would turn out.