London AFOLs Tube Underground Roundel Design Commission Artwork (Watercolour Watercolor Time Lapse)
Channel: FAMILY Bricks
Date: 2021-05-27

In this video we are going to go over these watercolour images I was commissioned to do for the London AFOLs LEGO User Group. These 4 art pieces ended up being printed for the group’s stationary requirements. In this video, we’ll give on overview as to the brief. There will also be quick time lapses on each artwork with commentary to give a feel as to some of the design decisions made. 

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Time codes to the Video:
0:00 Introduction 
0:40 Overview & Client Design Brief
3:01 Chiswick Park Tube Station
3:58 Tooting Bec Tube Station
4:50 Sleeping London AFOL on a Tube
5:44 Kings Cross / St Pancras 
6:40 Summing Up


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So these are the 4 finalised designs I ended up doing for London AFOLs lego user group. We have Chiswick Park, Tooting Bec, a guy on a tube and Kings Cross St Pancras underground station. Now it might seem a little strange it is all based around trains and the tube. While it is iconic and part of the London experience, the actual London AFOLs logo is derived from the Tube Roundel. When it was originally designed, it was very similar. You have the horizontal, which has the name. 

Then in the back, rather than having the circle, you have the brick. So these here are the actual finalized postcards as such. I’ll go through and can also show you , what some of the originals actually look like. And this just gives you an idea that the actual originals there are probably about 50%, 30% larger. 

We will just take a bit of a flick through the originals. So you have the original there for Chiswick. That is actually the second version as the first I’d tried another one but I think from memory I actually knocked over the water onto everything and made a bit of a mess of that. The one for Tooting Bec. The one for the guy asleep on the Tube. And then the underground for Kings Cross, St Pancras train station. 

Originally when I was commissioned to do these, I thought they would be looking for more this graphic, mini figure type ones I’d been doing up around that sort of point in time. Whereas I’d told to do the complete opposite. What they’d actually wanted was something more in this watercolour type style. So first read when you look at it, it looks like a normal type of postcard or something like that. 

But then once you went in for more of a second read, you start to see it is a little more customized, and not so much straight up and down in your face LEGO, and not more graphic ones I’d sort of done previously would give you. 

So when I was originally commissioned to do this, I was given a whole bunch of different photographs of different ideas to be working from. We sort of ended up with these 4 as the final ones. Just felt that each one gave a slightly different feel and was slightly different. So you weren’t getting 4 of exactly the same sort of thing. 

The London AFOLs ended up doing these as postcards and did a small print run of them. And they get sent out as “with compliments” type cards. And I think too were also used as a bit of a prize for some of the events we had only during lockdown. 

So now just go through each one of these quickly and show you a little time lapse and give some thoughts and comments about how they were done, and the thinking at the time. 

First up is Chiswick Park Tube Station and I wanted to do this in very much a sepia and earthy browns and those sorts of colour schemes. The station was rebuilt in the early 1930s in then what was classified as a modern European Style with lots of reinforced concrete, brick and glass. 
This is the main tower of the Tube station and was constructed so you would know where the station was from Chiswick High Street. For all the detail, it is just a matter of going over it and noodling it with all the fine detail. There is no real shortcut to that.