Visiting Warner Brothers Studio Tour London

I have recently started a new position as Junior Artist at Fumb Games, and luckily for me, I joined just in time for the company's annual Christmas party. Yesterday, the company met up near London, where we were treated to a surprise Christmas Dinner in the Great Hall event at the Warner Brothers Studio Tour London!

As a part of the Dinner event we also had entry to the Studio Tour, including getting a wand of our choice at the end of the tour. I chose Newt Scamander's wand because The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was my most-recently watched movie from the franchise, and in my opinion, the most enjoyable one.

As someone who had grown up with the Harry Potter franchise but not been an avid fan of it, I really had not expected that I would be visiting the WB Studio Tour so soon! Nevertheless the Studio Tour was really worthwhile and captivating from an artist's perspective, and it has definitely made me want to re-watch all of the movies to put this experience in context.

In this blog post I am going to show some of the photographs that I have taken of the studio sets, and I will be back to caption them once I re-watch the movies and work out where they belong...

The Cupboard Under the Stairs - Harry Potter's old room in the Dursley household.

The Gryffindor common room.

The Potions Classroom.

The Kitchen at The Burrow (Weasley family home).

The Flying Car.

Hagrid's motorbike and a broomstick.

A suit of armour for a house-elf.

The Hogwarts Clock Tower.

The Black Family Tapestry, where some disowned family members have their faces burnt off.

Inside the Gringotts Banks, operated by goblins.

The exterior of the Gringotts Wizarding Bank.

A cup of butterbeer. It is non-alcoholic and tastes like vanilla cream soda!

The Hogwarts Castle.

The Magical Menagerie (a magical creature shop) in Diagon Alley.

Weasley's Wizard Wheezes (a joke shop owned by Fred and George Weasley) in Diagon Alley.

Olivander's wand shop (also a part of the Studio Shop).

I have not included any pictures of my co-workers, but here is a drawing I made of the big family:

I drew this traditionally, and then added the colours digitally. I intentionally offset the colour layer slightly to create a vintage printed look.