Art Showcase: Tom Gauld

It’s been some time now since I did my last Art Showcase post. I have a list of artists I’ll showcase in good time, but this time I wanted to showcase a new discovery I had an immediate reaction to. Almost like a This Is My Jam of art. {: And the other day, I found Tom Gauld‘s work.

I have a serious, deep love for sketchbooks and journals. Of all kinds. Being a kind of stationery nut, blank journals, notebooks, and sketchbooks thrill me. But aside from collecting them, I love to see what other artists do with them. So I’d naturally be drawn to Tom Gauld’s fantastic sketchbooks.

Along with his sketchbooks, I really like his comics and illustrations. It definitely doesn’t hurt that he uses thin ink lines. I love his minimalist shapes and figures, as well as his use of hatching.

But aside from a cartoony, very precise and clean style using thin ink lines, all things I really love, I couldn’t quite pinpoint why Tom’s work seemed kind of familiar to me. But then I saw the two images above and realized they really remind me of Ed Emberley, whose books I cherished as a kid. I think Mr. Emberley might get a Showcase of his own at some point. {:

For now, though, Tom Gauld = awesome.

Disclaimer: I take NO credit whatsoever for the images in this Showcase post. All images in this Showcase post are copyright the listed owner/owners. The words in this Showcase post are my own, unless otherwise indicated.