HIMI Gouache Paint Set-49 PCS Painting Kit 36 Colors - Highly Pigmented Gouache for Painting, Artists, Illustrators & Designers - 12 ML Assorted Color Tubes (0.4oz)

I've been very curious to test HIMI/MIYA gouache in tubes because I'm not a fan of the jelly tubs (I hate that they don't reseal and I kind of hate how much room they take...) but I really like the quality of the HIMI/MIYA gouache itself. I was thrilled when they came out with a set of tubes and was delighted to find the gouache inside them to be the same quality as the jelly gouache- opaque, super creamy, smooth, and feels like a dream to paint with. I love that I can just dot a little bit on my palette or directly on my canvas/paper/sketchbook and work with it. in layers instead of having to dip my paintbrush into a jar/jelly cup of it and then have to figure out what to do with the excess.Please, release your entire gouache color line in tubes, and please make a larger size tube available! These tubes will last a while, but if you compare them to the volume of the jelly cups, they are MUCH smaller and much less paint. So better dispensing, better way to keep the paints from drying out, but much tinier amounts of paint and fewer colors.As far as the rest of the package, I think it's pretty great. You get a bunch of supplies needed to create several projects- I like the pad of paper included. It's not solely designed for water-based media, but for a drier gouache, it works well and it has a nice tooth to it without being as textured as cold press. The pencils are fine, the palette is perfect for gouache (although the weird "edge" indents give me pause- you can't really use those without paint sort of spilling over the edge of the palette unless it's a tiny bead of paint that never gets diluted...) The water containers are fine but a little flimsy, etc.It's a nice starter set for gouache. Just hoping for more colors and larger tubes in the future.

I do generally love Himi Miya gouache. I'm referring, of course, to the gouache in the jelly cups, which is rich, luxurious, pretty darned highly pigmented for a student-level gouache. I wanted, therefore, so much to like this set of tube gouaches from Himi Miya! And this is definitely a giftable set, despite the quality of the gouache--it's loaded with goodies that might make the gouache lover's heart beat a little faster, such as a full set of absolutely beautiful paint brushes in a little plastic case adorned with an ornamental bird; two gouache buckets made out of plastic, buckets intended to hold water, which are, unfortunately, a gimmick that doesn't work; two decorative pencils; an eraser; and an entire forty-sheet pad of slightly-better-than-average watercolor paper. It's the gouache quality that limits the appeal of the set to me (the goodies are wonderful and opulent). The gouache is weirdly too wet, dribbles out of the tube, and lacks the fine consistency and whipped-cream lusciousness of the gouache in the jelly cups. Also, not only is the texture inconsistent, but the gouache is wildly mislabeled--the tube color doesn't even match the caps, which is odd and sloppy-seeming on the company's part: I picked up what I thought was a deep red color, and it turned out to be an ochre! I'd take a hard pass on this set, unless you feel that you might love all of those little goodies, and hope for a better tube product from Himi Miya in the future.