This week I will be talking about the french illustrator, Tom Haugomat. Born in Paris in 1985, Haugomat fell in love with drawing and telling a narrative in his pieces. Studying art history, archeology, and design, Haugomat’s first public project was a short film “Jean-Francois” (2009) with co-creator Bruno Mangyoku. (source)

His approach to visual storytelling of incorporating multiple figuring interacting to create a sense of dialog or a lone person surrounded by large nature/architecture. His style is very minimal in the sense of being very deliberate about the highlights and lack of detail to allow the viewer to feel a sense of participation in filling in the rest of the details. In terms of drawing into space, Haugomat uses scale and contrast and is able to control the scale of space in his work.

Haugomat currently has two animations produced and a number of art books released with a collection of his work. He has a large following of 258k followers and is still working in France as an illustrator / author.