Wil Cormier started painting at the early age of 8. He started his career as a commercial illustrator after graduating from the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California back in 1983. He studied human anatomy, drew and painted from live figures for many years. He uses various mediums for different types of projects such as gouache, pen and ink, scratch board, water colors, pastels, prism pencils, acrylic and oil paint. Some of his early freelance work were editorial illustrations, book covers, product illustrations and movie posters. Movie campaign projects such as, Home Alone 2, Crocodile Dundee, Oscar, Navy Seals, Witches of Eastwick, Naked Gun 1 and 2 a lot more. He was also commissioned by major movie companies such as 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Disney, just to name a few. Other companies that commissioned Wil were Baskin and Robbins, Discover Card, Carnation, Mattel Toys, Upper Deck Trading Cards, Omni Magazine, Absolute Vodka (Chicago), Nestle and Shell Oil. Along with doing freelance projects, he also taught at the Art Center College of Design to advanced students in the field of advertising illustration.
His imaginative work in the illustration/design field garnered him with numerous awards in the industry such as The World Science Fiction Association for his creative book covers and had the opportunity to sell to art collectors through Sotheby’s in New York.
Wil Cormier is now pursuing a new line of art that involves unique texturing effects and is also an official licensed Disney Fine Art artist.
