Gary Baseman on Sketch Theatre

13. Oct, 2008 Comments Off

Sketch Theatre is a great site that features videos of well respected illustrators, and features video clips of them doing what they do best – from a first person POV. Check out of the video of Gary Baseman doing his thing.

Gary Baseman‘s big-eyed characters have always been pretty original and inspiring. He has cited influences as varied as Warner Brothers cartoons, vintage American comic strips, Hieronymus Bosch, Day of the Dead artifacts, and Japanese pop art. Baseman’s work is part of the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Modern Art in Rome. As an commercial illustrator, his corporate clients include Gatorade, Mercedes-Benz, and Nike.

On an interesting anecdote, Baseman is the creator and the executive producer of the animated television series for ABC/Disney called Teacher’s Pet, which won the Emmy award for Best Daytime Animated series three times. They made a movie of it to.

If you dig his stuff, there are some more clips of his work and an interview after the jump.