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Hi Mark.
I don't personally use pastels (limited experience). But I am proficient on the computer side and can only comment from that end. (I use oil outside of the computer).
My first recommendation is to stop the digital version for the time being. Go get the pastels and play with them on paper. Get a handle on how they feel, respond, etc. When you return to the computer version in Painter, your entire perspective on how you are doing this digitally will change. Sometimes the computer is too convenient and you can do things in Painter that truly can't be duplicated in real pastels. Plus you have the "undo button". The undo function is a curse and a blessing at the same time. Understanding the limits and possibilities of the actual medium is critical when working in the computer world and programs like painter.
Hope this helps.
p. s. I will add that your rendering of the hair is excellent, but could you have done it the same way you did it here in actual pastel? That is, instead of holding a mouse or wacom pen, holding an actual pastel? That's the difference, Mark. That is what you need to be thinking about most of all when working digitally. And when you can think like that your computer pictures will never look digital.
Rebecca
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