I love the sketchers pocket box.  It's An amazing set, really compact. The case it's self is pretty little but feel durable. The paint brush that comes with the set is, I believe atleast a full synthetic brush. The paints are of course student grade cotman, but they're good paints. I prefer cotman paints when I go do plain air sketches. The one reason this did not get five stars is because it come with Chinese White. Now I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to put white in a watercooor set, I just never use it out in the field. So I just replaced it with a paynes grey. Overall, good set.