FMP: Project Evaluation

FINAL MAJOR PROJECT EVALUATION

Ultimately, I think my FMP was overall a success. I am extremely pleased with all my final pieces and I feel my final table-set up for the show is an accurate reflection of my project as a whole and everything I had primarily aimed to produce. I feel this success was due to my very strong and well developed research, and all the inspiration and ideas I took from such research. I think all the vast amounts of artists, publishing companies and comics I looked into were additionally extremely helpful to my work and ultimate product – by providing me with never-ending amounts of inspiration and constant ideas as what I could do next, what I could improve or include, etc. For example, the work of artist Jane Mai in particular proved to be vastly helpful to my project, by giving my perhaps the most amount of ideas and inspiration from the artists’ work. Jane Mai proved to be a source of aspiration for my final project and to me as a creative individual, and I feel there is a strong sense of her work within my own.

Though, I am very pleased with my final outcome, I can evaluate my FMP process overall by saying that I generally was not on target or meeting my weekly goals. This was not by any means due to the nature of the goals I had set for myself – they were very much achievable; though I feel I often spent far too much time on elements that perhaps did not need so much dedication – such as the primary research, Though I have a lot of research and it all proved to be helpful and ultimately needed for my FMP, I do think I could have completed my research much sooner and moved onto physical creating and making at an earlier stage. Again, though I am pleased with my final outcome, I do feel there are slight aspects that I could potentially improve upon, given more time. For example, I may have looked into producing a couple of books rather than the one and multiple zines to accompany; that said I am in no way disappointed with what I did manage to produce.

If I was to do my FMP again, I would certainly collect my research in a more improved way and spend far more time on the actual creation; and additionally try to have more fun with what I was creating.