Germany (Berlin)
Detlef Surrey
Detlef Surrey is illustrator and comic artist in Berlin. His clients include agencies, publishers and social organisations such as the German Bundestag. For the joy of drawing – and as an antithesis to the work on the computer – he always has a sketchbook with him and he records in it what surrounds him. Detlef Surrey is a member of Urban Sketchers Berlin.
Website | Sketchblog | Instagram
Language skills:
German, English, Spanish
Workshop SA12 (German): September 11, 14:00-17:00
Find your story
Detlef Surrey gives an insight into his approach to complex scenes. The theme of the workshop is finding individual stories in the picture – and the possibilities of emphasising them in order to stimulate the viewer's imagination and thus lure them into the picture.
Close observation and empathy with the scene and a humorous look are more important in this workshop than, for example, correct reproduction of perspective or anatomy. The focus is on the observed persons, their relationship to each other, as well as their relationship to the surrounding space in the context of the scene found and to be reproduced.
"What is happening here? What do I see?" – Tell your story!
Material:
Sketchbook, scratch paper, pens, brushes and colours of your own preference
