drude mangaard

boys and girls

2012-02-09T20:24:00.000+01:00

VÆSEN is on youtube!

2012-02-03T13:21:00.003+01:00

I am very excited to tell you that the graduation film i worked on is now posted on youtube! We graduated last week and it is so amazingly great to finally be able to share the film :D It was done in 8 months and we were 6 people on the team: Adrian Dexter, Birk Von Brockdorff, Arnold Bagasha, Jody Ghani, Mikkel V. Petersen and me :)

also, take a look at the 5 other graduation films done by the rest of my classmates here. (wing, space stallions, slug invasion, ride of passage and load)

Diane Cluck's Song-of-the-week-project!

2012-01-10T14:23:00.003+01:00

Hello friends! I will now present to you a project i am really hoping will be realised: Diane Cluck's Song-of-the-week-project!

Diane Cluck is one of my favourite song makers, and her music is like glittering pieces of magic. The first song i heard and instantly fell in love with was "easy to be around" and there was something strange about it and her other songs - they didn't catch me right away, but i still kept listening for some reason - there was something about them, a feeling that couldn't be explained. and one by one they started to grow and bloom in my ears, and now i love all of her songs. I never get tired of listening to them.

in december 2011 she was on 'spinning on air' - where she is interviewed and she plays a mix of new and old songs, and it's really cosy.

Song-of-the-week is a project that will go on for six months. every week she will write, record and distribute a song, ending with a total of 24 songs. The project need subscribers to come true and there are different levels of subscriptions. Take a look and listen to some of her songs, maybe you'll like it too. she also has a shop on her website where you can listen to her songs. regardless, this music means a lot to me - which is why i'm sharing! :)

the days that ended.

2012-01-03T15:42:00.007+01:00

Christmas and EndOfYear-events have passed, as well as my days as an intern at Mikrofilm. Because i had such a lovely time, i am going to post some photos. Everyone i met in Norway has been really great, but especially Lise and Kajsa - thank you! :)

And these are some photos from my last days. In this one Cathinka and Magnhild are decorating the studio for the annual christmas party.

the cosy christmas party:

Leftovers from the christmas party, and my last day at mikrofilm.

happy lunch times with leftover food from the party.

And in the evening, which was my last evening in Oslo as well, Lise took me to a christmas presents making workshop with her family. Seemingly, i tend to build houses by default now :)

This next photo is taken by Andreas. quite unexpectedly in the middle of the christmas party i suddenly got presents! lovely books ! :)

these are the books: three comics and a rather large book with wonderful photos of brilliant paper crafts!

thank you, all of you!

and merry christmas and happy new year! :)

wilderness

2011-11-20T14:04:00.002+01:00

i've been working on this the whole weekend and now i give up! Hm. taw-monkey

shamy.

2011-11-05T21:39:00.002+01:00

hahaha. i just had to draw it. it was cute :)

Sheldon Cooper and Amy Farrah Fowler from The Big Bang Theory.

the daily doodle challenge.

2011-11-05T15:20:00.002+01:00

I forgot to bring my coloured pencils with me to norway, so i bought some new ones. It turned out to be a happy misfortune since i think these are the best coloured pencils i've ever had :)

carina suggested that we should draw something every day and send a photo to each other of the drawing - here are two of them :)

face in the crowd

2011-10-23T18:16:00.002+02:00

wow, that was exhausting... made for the TAW-monkey theme "face in the crowd" and this is not at all how i envisioned it to be. and as you might notice i got a little lazy.. i like it, though. but i've never been so energy-drained from colouring a drawing before. i think it's movie watching time.

current arts and crafts

2011-10-17T19:56:00.001+02:00

At work:

At home:

paperworld!

2011-10-07T20:41:00.003+02:00

At the moment i spend my days building various objects in paper. So far i've made a house, a trampoline, benches, different types of trash cans and these flowers :)

what i wore 01.10.2011

2011-10-02T02:00:00.003+02:00

for the flickr group - 'what i wore today (drawings only)' - always nice when you feel like making a doodle ;)

time travel.

2011-10-01T00:23:00.004+02:00

a little piece for TAW-monkey's current theme ''time traveller'' - i have two other themes on paper, but it's not so easy to get them scanned at the moment, and also i keep forgetting to bring them to work (where the scanner is). Consequently this is done in photoshop-tvpaint-photoshop-tvpaint-photoshop (...). with my tiny A6 tablet, haha. drawing everything digitally is so time consuming!

There you go, 6 hours of my life:

ahh the compression on blogger is horrible! click here to see this drawing on flickr.

Norwegian forest world.

2011-09-28T23:24:00.006+02:00

Last sunday Kajsa invited me to join her family on a trip to the forest, and it was lovely! we walked from Frognerseteren to Skjennungstua and back again. These photos don't really capture exactly how beautiful and wonderful everything was - but i wanted to share them anyway :) I want to live in this forest! And there should be a river, like the one that flows through Oslo, and with a lot of amazing colourful fish! and i would lie beside it every night and listen to the water's trickling.

jodysang vil jeg gerne.

2011-09-05T11:25:00.002+02:00

This is a drawing i did for my dear friend Jody for her birthday :)

the swap.

2011-08-17T12:48:00.002+02:00

here is a drawing i did for the sweet miina prikk in return for one of her lovely notebooks! :)

(i didnt have time to scan it at the school, so this is a photo) - below is the book miina made :D

potter pals.

2011-08-14T01:54:00.003+02:00

(an experiment) ginny, harry, luna, hermione, ron and neville.

harry-james and ginevra.

2011-08-11T01:35:00.003+02:00

harry potter and ginny weasley. i don't normally envision ginny with her hair full of roses, but i was trying something out for something else. harry's jumper text is from 'potter puppet pals: the mysterious ticking noise' :)

quibblery lunary

2011-08-10T17:35:00.002+02:00

luna lovegood from j.k. rowling's harry potter :)

hermione and crookshanks.

2011-08-10T14:00:00.005+02:00

hermione granger from the harry potter-books with her cat :)

and this is all photoshop! takes AGES .. i want my scanner to work! :( but on the other hand i get to exercise drawing in photoshop, which is probably not a downside, really.

showreel july 2011

2011-08-02T19:13:00.002+02:00

it's a total win when one figures out how to export the right format from adobe premiere. this time it only took me 40 minutes! :D this is my updated showreel - now featuring shots from my graduation film (væsen) and music!

showreel july 2011 from drude mangaard on Vimeo.

a little news update!

2011-07-31T13:56:00.003+02:00

as you see, i recently redesigned the layout of my blog. (i was getting so terribly tired of the black background it had before)

also, i just added a new feature that allows one to follow my blog updates via email. i added the same feature to TAW-monkey and signed up to try it out, and it works :) you get an email with the post sent directly into your internetty mailbox.

and i have been wondering why everyone loves tumblr so much for quite some time now, so i decided to make one myself as i was going to create a new blog anyway, because i want to keep this one as it is. on this tumblr. -site you will find links to creative sites i find interesting and links to artists i get inspiration from, and other stuff. (for the moment it consists mainly of links to places like "illustration friday", but more will come :) )

next week i will update my animation showreel, so you can look forward to that :) and currently i am working on a little film on my own, but it's too early in the process to post about it yet. and as i wrote on my portfolio site, i will this fall be interning at the studio Mikrofilm in Norway, which i am very excited about!

summer.

2011-07-29T15:07:00.000+02:00

TAW-monkey theme.

sea.

2011-07-23T16:51:00.000+02:00

for TAW-monkey.

carrot salesman.

2011-07-23T15:54:00.001+02:00

another TAW-monkey theme :)

the boy who cried wolf.

2011-07-23T13:56:00.001+02:00

Taw-monkey again.

missing pieces.

2011-07-23T00:08:00.004+02:00

one more drawing for TAW-monkey - also an old theme :) it is my goal to get some of those done, that i always wanted to draw but either didnt have the time to do or the right idea for. i tried to experiment with only using variations of 'red' in this one, but somehow the orange yellow found its way in as well! well, orange is also a friend of red, in a way :)

Salmon friend :)

2011-07-19T16:44:00.003+02:00

here's a little drawing for TAW-MONKEY - it's a pretty old theme, though.

hejhej væsen-room!

2011-06-25T11:01:00.003+02:00

You know the end will come one day, but sometimes it takes you by surprise anyway. I just finished cleaning my desk at school - saying goodbye to our little Væsen Home, so difficult to leave that place - missing our little væsen world and our little væsen family so much already!

poster for a bachelor concert.

2011-05-23T17:56:00.004+02:00

a long time ago i agreed to do a poster for my friend, Kristine Hanskov. She studies classical double bass at the Danish Academy of Music on her 3rd year, and her bachelor exam is a concert - for which she needs a poster and a printed list of what she is going to play. I did 95 % of the line drawing a month ago, and finished it this weekend. In the end she also needed a postcard, which i made quite similar to the cover of the programme, since the amount of text was more or less the same.

the programme cover:

the postcard:

and the poster:

showreel 2011

2011-04-07T00:34:00.002+02:00

this is my animation showreel 2011!

if you want to see the rest of my online portfolio, you can click here :)

showreel 2011 from drude mangaard on Vimeo.

freedom jelly babies

2011-03-31T16:54:00.000+02:00

30.03.2011

2011-03-30T20:21:00.001+02:00

a tiny update

2011-03-02T08:36:00.003+01:00

Here are some more drawings from the preproduction of our bachelor film, Væsen. the first one is a turnaround of the king's head that i did based on a crown design Adrian did, and a king face design that Jody did.

These next ones are the designs i did for the deer antlers and the prince's inside princy wear, when we see him in the beginning of the film. Quite unfortunately, we came to a result we liked pretty fast - unfortunate in the sense that i was rather enjoying drawing these intricate and ornate elements! :)

and we modified the prince's design a bit (back to the original idea) - this is a new turnaround of him, with his fancy inside princy clothes.

my brother.

2011-02-17T00:23:00.001+01:00

Sigfred's Kaffebar 05.02.2011

2011-02-14T23:46:00.001+01:00

Jody :)

a little turnaround of our prince!

2011-01-25T23:25:00.001+01:00

my bachelor film group as forest spirits

2011-01-17T19:23:00.000+01:00

hehe.

Bridget J.

2011-01-08T02:16:00.003+01:00

happy 2011 :)

2011-01-07T01:06:00.001+01:00

christmas presents 2010

2010-12-25T11:16:00.003+01:00

the first one here is a gift to my aunt, Vivian. it is supposed to represent my aunt and my uncle and my two cousins :)

And this one is for my brother's girlfriend, Julia. it is her and my brother in their new year's eve 2009-outfits :)

væsen cosy sleepy times

2010-12-23T16:13:00.003+01:00

lunch cosy sleepy times:

(Jody and I)

night cosy sleepy times:

(Birk, Adrian and Mikkel)

WIWT 18.12.2010

2010-12-22T00:06:00.001+01:00

what i wore today flickr group

more Væsen.

2010-12-12T20:46:00.003+01:00

at the moment I am designing the characters for our bachelor film in collaboration with Jody. here are some of the things i've done so far.

some hats

some character designs for the prince, but not the final one.

some skull ideas

some beast ideas

some more beast ideas, but mostly i just got carried away..

some faces for the prince.

some different hair styles

some more hats

happy december!

2010-12-06T01:26:00.002+01:00

the view from our little cosy time place in our working room at school :

at the laksa night at jonas' we played a little game with the giant ball.

jachin, sara, jody and me :

and a blue silhouette / shadow man :

drawings for Væsen

2010-11-22T00:09:00.000+01:00

wiwt 15.11.2010 + 17.11.2010

2010-11-21T00:52:00.001+01:00

flickr grp wiwt

fruity love.

2010-11-14T23:37:00.001+01:00

for Taw-monkey!

2010-11-13T23:28:00.000+01:00

a lady and a devil in a supermarket

2010-11-11T22:21:00.002+01:00

I did the line drawing for this in march or february, and then forgot all about it until now. i was unable to decide which version i liked the best, so now i will post both and ponder.

WIWT 20.10.2010 + 21.10.2010

2010-11-11T01:04:00.002+01:00

what i wore today (in drawings) flickr group

a tired little animator

2010-10-26T15:27:00.002+02:00

17.10.2010.

2010-10-19T13:49:00.002+02:00

flickr group! what i wore today (in drawings)

netto fruits

2010-09-30T21:42:00.002+02:00

hmm. a dream i had the other day. it was a wonderful fruit! but it didnt look exactly like this. it has taken me a long time to finish this drawing because it never turned out how i wanted it to, so i kept changing it. hmm yeah, i dont know.

sketchbook!

2010-09-23T09:01:00.003+02:00

jody and me in Oslo, august, vigeland sculpture park:

drawing and hanging out in kirsten's room, holmen. a few days ago.

pandita and me sleeping after the animal party, august.

another tawmonkeyposter

2010-08-29T21:32:00.000+02:00

for next week's theme!

spiralling

2010-08-29T13:43:00.002+02:00

i really really really love Ikenaga Yasunari's works! so i was inspired to do this! - it's a dress i've sewn recently but it's not finished, it needs a zipper. and i really love the fabric's pattern. started out as a "what i wore today" drawing, but now i dont know.

happy meal

2010-08-26T22:38:00.003+02:00

Sascha and me, and we are loving liver paste and chai tea from Nepal. mmm! :)

Ole and his friends!

2010-08-25T16:12:00.002+02:00

this week's theme for TAW-monkey is "Ole and his friends". this wasnt really how i first imagined it, but uh.. yeah, i dont know what happened. ugly babies happened. but now i think i know why the drawings with the ugly babies always seem so suspect - it must be because they're always naked! it might seem obvious, but apparently it never occurred to me before.. i just thought it was because the babies were so gross. hmm...

empty your pockets!

2010-08-25T12:07:00.002+02:00

yesterday art house co-op posted a new project, the pocket project, and i think it is an interesting project, though i dont know if i'll participate yet. but i thought it would be fun to see what i actually walk around with every day in my bag, and i decided to draw it. (and after finishing the drawing there were none of the five blue jeans left)

it's harry freakin' potter!

2010-08-22T22:03:00.003+02:00

recently i wacthed A VERY POTTER MUSICAL and it's very silly, but also pretty funny, i think. (harry is practicing his song for cho chang with ginny.)

some harry sketches

2010-08-20T01:28:00.002+02:00

another summer break is almost over, and yet again i havent drawn as much as i could have, but here are some harry potter drawings i did some days ago. felt like drawing with pencil, but it never goes how i want it to when i colour it, so i am sort of stuck here.

sketchbook p. 11

2010-08-04T00:30:00.002+02:00

what i wore today 31.07.2010

2010-07-31T12:18:00.001+02:00

sketchbook p. 3, 4 and 6

2010-07-30T17:45:00.003+02:00

some of the drawings from the sketchbook i'm drawing in for the sketchbook project!

beast theatre

2010-07-28T00:51:00.002+02:00

taw-monkey's new theme is BEAST THEATRE. Hmmm...

dryads

2010-07-22T12:37:00.008+02:00

i've been looking through a lot of different people's artwork the last two days, and wanted to do some greek mythology stuff. (it doesnt really have any connection to why i wanted to draw greek mythology stuff, but that's how it went) so i decided to draw hamadryads (nymphs of oak trees) and pan, but the drawing of pan never felt right to me. i tried colouring it anyway, but it still wasnt right. then i decided to throw it out and start over (which i havent done yet) - but i really liked the dryads, so i cut them out and here they are:

then yesterday sam bosma put up his fifth process post on his hobbit pieces, and i was once again amazed at how much work he puts into every illustration he makes. and he always thumbnails a lot before he gets a composition he likes, and i never do that - but i was thinking that i should try it out.

the sketchbook project

2010-07-17T13:13:00.002+02:00

I have to advertise for this project, because i get overly excited every time i think about it! it's brilliant! and i just took another look at the ART HOUSE CO-OP's website and there's so much more greatness like the sketchbook project - they do a lot of projects and the best thing is that it's for everyone!

personally a lot of my inspiration comes from watching other people producing art, and there are so many people participating in these things! that's also why i find illustration friday so great - it doesnt matter if you're a professional illustrator or if you just discovered last week that you want to learn how to paint - the energy that place is filled with and the joy of all the people who participates every week, that's really inspiring to me! just as much as looking at something artsy i like.

2nd year exam + assignments 2010

2010-07-12T11:44:00.003+02:00

so. i guess i havent uploaded much of what i've been doing at school lately, which is probably because it's all so bad and i wanted to try and fix it before putting it out here - that never happened, and since i'm still learning i guess it's okay to show it anyway.. even if watching most of it does make my toes curl with embarrassment.

MY 2nd YEAR EXAM: i think this one is probably some of the best 3d animation i've done.

instructions: 5-8 seconds, a student has a hangover from a night of wild partying, is very tired and stretches his back when he is suddenly off balance and falls to the floor. reaction.

the following is a showreel of all the assignments i've done since christmas. i dont know where i put the other version, so this one also adds my poor skills with adobe premiere. brilliant! :)

contains: midway test, acting scene, 4legged walk/trot/run, 15-20 sec of dialogue (in 2 weeks), project quadruped (collab with the CGA line, pairs of two. they build the char/rig, we animated it, they did VFX or whatever it is afterwards. my collab partner was Birk von Brockdorff), self study (mine was fix boxlift and make new parkour scene).

chapter 18: the life and lies of albus dumbledore

2010-07-12T01:56:00.002+02:00

I don't read a lot of books, though i wish i did, so the theme "illustrate a scene from a book" on TAW-monkey was for me pretty limited.

BUT every summer i read harry potter and currently i'm reading the last one "harry potter and the deathly hallows". this is chapter 18.

what i wore today 06.07.2010

2010-07-07T00:54:00.003+02:00

for the great great flickr group WHAT I WORE TODAY (in drawings)

Skarresø Festival 2010 poster

2010-07-02T13:26:00.002+02:00

i was asked to do a poster for Skarresøforeningen's annual festival, Skarresø Festival, and this is it:

2010-06-30T18:58:00.000+02:00

deer

2010-06-28T14:49:00.003+02:00

i just wanted to see how it would look:

watching the stars

2010-06-26T02:22:00.003+02:00

2010-06-25T20:42:00.002+02:00

the millionaire.

2010-06-23T23:16:00.003+02:00

2010-06-22T23:28:00.000+02:00

illustration friday: paisley

2010-06-19T11:27:00.002+02:00

finally i had the time and energy for a new illustration friday contribution! :)

multiply

2010-06-16T00:09:00.001+02:00

TAW-monkey

wiwt

2010-06-06T01:17:00.005+02:00

just a very quick drawing before i go to bed, and these 'what i wore today' drawings are very well suited for situations like that! i've been dancing to planet paprika all day long. i think i will try drawing other quick drawings in the future too, though. there must be a way for my imagination to come up with something different once in a while! :)

2010-06-03T20:11:00.004+02:00

me and norman having lots of fun in maya.......

norman improved

2010-06-02T20:07:00.003+02:00

did i claim that Autodesk MAYA wasnt fun? i take it back! one has to love a program that does this to your character, if you accidentally move the graphs in the wrong direction. if i dont pass my exam i will at least have this photo to keep me laughing forever!!!

old doodles from last year i just found

2010-06-01T21:08:00.004+02:00

DADIU stuff

2010-05-31T19:55:00.007+02:00

As i mentioned a couple of days ago, as a part of my education i spent the last 5 weeks in copenhagen working on the DADIU project CATNAPPED! . (DADIU = The National Danish Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment)
Each team consisted of about 14 students from various schools and had 5 weeks to make a small computer game. the students from my team study at The National Film School of Denmark, Aarhus University, Aalborg University, The Danish Design School, Kolding Design School, the Technical University of Denmark, The Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen and of course The Animation Workshop. If you want to know more about DADIU, you can go to their website. You can also find the previous games on that site (pretty soon the new ones we did will be there too).

Anyway, as an animator there wasnt much to do in the beginning and in the end, since a lot of things has to be decided and models needed to be build before we could begin animating, and a lot has to be done after the animations are finished. so esben and i did some other stuff too. and until i figure out how to make playblasts of my animations, i can only show that other stuff :)

this is a character development sketch of the cat in our game:

character design sketches of the cat. the one with no colour was picked. then after this, esben used this to draw the final version of the cat, since he did the character design of the teddy and it was easier to get his drawing style into the cat that way.

colour tests for the cat.

some soap bubbles:

early sketches for the cat:

some drops i did, that i dont think made it into the final game. they arent really fitting the style of the game either, but personally i think they're pretty cool!

a cut scene between two levels in the game. I didnt draw the teddy, it was drawn by either our director, Mai Ulrikka Sydendal or our visual designer, Sophus Vinther - but everything else.

another cut scene - actually i didnt draw much of this. our director Mai did the linework and most of the colouring - i just drew the tapestry and changed the colour of the lamp, and cleaned up some of the lines.

sketches for the "yay, you won!" sequence:

final version:

colour tests for the teddy, designed by esben

sketches for the sequence that plays when you fall into the black hole:

final version:

what i wore today 30.05.2010

2010-05-30T15:34:00.004+02:00

for the flickr group: what i wore today

DADIU drawings

2010-05-30T01:07:00.002+02:00

the last 5 weeks i've been in cph participating in the DADIU project catnapped!, and i did not draw as much as i usually do, but a bit escaped the pen and got down on paper! this is not all of it, but almost... i think i have one or two more. but they need colours :)

pandita studying for her exams.

pandita eating chips. i wonder if this was the day where she left me alone with that awful norwegian horror film.

sophus, one of dennis' victims.

the teddy from our game (paper version)

magnify

2010-05-21T14:30:00.004+02:00

i spent the last 2,5 days on drawing this in photoshop - and without any use of the lasso tool (except from one time, in the end, when i gave up (on the grass))! and no use of the paintbucket either. haha. but it went better than i thought it would, at least.

EDIT: and of course this doesnt really make any sense unless you know, that i usually always draw the line on paper, scan it, colour it in photoshop using the paintbucket and lasso tool.

and that i have never done a picture like this in photoshop before. ever.

membership

2010-05-14T22:32:00.002+02:00

we are making a book of the members in Skarresøforeningen, and maybe the pages in it will look something like this.

what i wore today 06.05.2010

2010-05-08T12:01:00.003+02:00

hairy

2010-04-29T16:28:00.000+02:00

for taw-monkey this week.

belly

2010-04-24T16:22:00.003+02:00

what i wore today

i love waking up after a party discovering that my belly is purple :)

denver

2010-04-23T16:38:00.004+02:00

what i wore today. tonight we have the spring party at our school, and the theme is KIDS TV. i'll be DENVER, the last dinosaur, and i did this costume. it'll be great. one should wear animal costumes more often. i'm wearing some different glasses though. found some which were more pink.

if you dont remember who denver is, take a look at this.

arty hassel

2010-04-23T16:30:00.002+02:00

i always forget to note in these posts when a drawing is made for someone. this is a birthday present for carina. :)

simons birthday colour

2010-04-22T22:11:00.000+02:00

16042010

2010-04-20T21:23:00.001+02:00

peter pedal.

2010-04-20T19:46:00.001+02:00

in skarresø birgitte read peter pedal aloud to katrine, pavel and me :)

drawings from this weekend.

2010-04-20T00:26:00.003+02:00

or maybe rather - drawings of what i did this weekend.

i haven't drawn pavel, birgitte, katrine and i biking to ryomgård, and painting mistbænke. but it was my plan to draw that as well.

drawings from last week.

2010-04-20T00:21:00.002+02:00

just a couple of drawings from last week.

that thing from hong kong.

2010-04-16T01:22:00.003+02:00

taw-monkey. it's a pine-durian-apple. or a duriananas.

13.04.2010

2010-04-13T20:28:00.002+02:00