Highlights and softened highlights

Video demonstation

Here’s a video on how to make lovely highlights:

Highlights with stick

But not just highlights like you see above where you use a sharpened wooden stick to cut through a wash or undercoat, or a needle to cut through thick paint like flooding.

Also softened highlights - that is, how you use your ring finger to shade your highlights as you see below:

Softened highlights with finger

Here’s the video: