FIRST IMPRESSION OF HIMI MIYA GOUACHE PAINT || WORTH IT OR NOT?

I have been curious about gouache painting for some time now and I keep seeing the medium used in art videos on Instagram, it really looks easy to use so I decided to buy one for myself and try it out ...

I bought this on Shopee for 820 pesos (16.9USD), I regret buying it on a none promo day because now it can only be bought around 400 pesos (8.25 USD) I cri ~ (ಥ﹏ಥ) *sobs hahaha

So inside it has a palette, which is very nice because to my experience with another medium such as watercolor, the cover is usually the palette.

I flipped it to see the set of 18 colors, it looks yummy hahaha... now I know why they also call this jelly gouache, coz' it really looks like a Jellyace, our kindergarten snacks

I decided to remove the cover and a lot of paints were stuck to it which would be a waste if I just throw it away so I thought of painting it on my black sketchpad,

well... it's true that the gouache is opaque for its thickness and lack of transparency

TRYING IT OUT

I searched on the internet that gouache can also be painted on a canvas, but for me, I think it doesn't absorb much and it might come off easily,

I have never tried it, and I won't try it hahaha

so I bought an illustration board to test it out, I was really in awe

because it absorbs the gouache so well, the blending, the rendering, everything! perfection!

it's really manageable to use

also, I don't originally own the concept of this painting, I got the reference to this awesome sardine dude in SaatchiArt while I was looking at beautiful artworks I can't afford 😂

also what I did doesn't look like much of the original photo, but it'll do as a practice...

ANOTHER ATTEMPT

I am a huge fan of Julie Liger-Belair I tried doing her style, she is my influencer in the field of art this 2021

while I was painting it, merry-go-round by joe Hisaishi was my background music, so I remember the song is also used in TikTok so I tried it out myself, and here's what it looked like, so dramatic ~ 😌

Studio ghibli feels ~ ❤️

Anyways, to conclude buying Himi Miya gouache paint is worth it, if you have an idea about Alla prima the gouache paint suits that art movement so well.