Pencils vs. Pastels

Recently, I created a pastel board on a Canson board. I used two drafts to complete this. The first was colored pencils, and the final draft was made with pastels. My original drawing was supposed to be the final, but I found out that colored pencils were light and faded. It was hard to see bold colors on the horse and rider. I thought of a new solution: pastels. I used pastels on a new board so that they wouldn't smudge. Instantly, I saw better results. The pastels blended well and were bright enough to be seen as a realistic picture, but colored pencils looked like thin crayons with a lot more white space than I thought. I decided to keep the pastel drawing, mainly because of the change in texture, but I also saw some mistakes in my pencil drawing, like the unnatural bend of a foot. Here are the pencil and pastel drawings for you to compare yourself.