Ben White completed an art project using only charcoal as the medium. He found that charcoal fit well with the apocalyptic theme and taught him useful skills like smudging for effect. White also benefited from gaining confidence presenting his ideas to others. He managed his time well, staying on schedule to meet all deadlines and completing his final work in the planned time. The total cost of £651 for the materials was a fair amount for the work produced and time spent. White learned about effectively using charcoal without making the image too dark. His planning ensured the time was used properly to complete the project as planned.

1. Evaluation
Ben White – Art FMP

2. Production skills
• Through out the course of the project, I planned only to use charcoal.
This was because I quite like working with charcoal and it fit seemed to
fit the apocalyptic theme well. Looking back through my finalized work,
I now strongly agree that this was the correct decision. Only using this
medium has also taught me a range of useful skills and information
about it, for example, I have developed techniques that involve
smudging the charcoal for effect and I have learnt that charcoal can be
used to add quite a nice and unique shade to objects, surfaces and
structures.
• I believe my confidence and presentation skills have benefited from this
project too as I am quite a shy person, so being able to successfully
pitch my ideas to an audience has benefitted myself greatly.

3. Time Management
• I believe my time management skills for this project were very
well put together. This is because I managed to complete and stay
up to date on my work each week and this meant that I would
meet the deadline. I planned out my work so that I would be
working right up to the deadline. This meant I would have to have
completed my final piece and evaluation on the final week, which
I was able to do in the time planned.

4. Financial
• In a previous post, I concluded that the
total cost for my work would be a total
of £651. I believe this total is correct
and works out to be just over double
what the total would be at the minimum
wage of £5.13 per hour would earn. I
believe that this is a fair amount for the
amount of work I have produced and
time I have spent on the project. An
issue that may have arose would have
been that I could have run out of
charcoal, as it drains quite quickly, but
luckily I found out that I had more than
enough in the end.

5. Summary
• I had also created 3 different ideas for my project, which were based of very
different game and would used different mediums on each. I chose to create
the apocalyptic art as I quite liked how I could be creative with existing cities of
areas. I could look and New York for example and imagine it in a different
perspective, which was quite interesting to try out.
• I believe the majority of my work is well done. I have learnt a lot about the
medium charcoal and how I can use it for greater effect. One other thing I have
learnt is that I should keep a strong eye on the amount of charcoal I am using,
as using too much can result in a dull, dark and barely visible image. Planning-
wise, I believe I have effectively ensured that the time available was used
properly. I have met the deadline and therefore am able to prove that my plan
worked out well and did not require too much or too little work being produced,
meaning I have completed as much as I can.