Old illustrations from the 70's and 80's

1980's ad for Montreal's transport co. Watercolor, airbrush.


1980's, watercolor and charcoal. Ad for the Grand Toys Company.


Early 1980's, illustration for the cover of TV Hebdo, watercolor.


Fall, 1977, watercolor and charcoal pencil.


Here is a watercolor from the summer of 1977. One of the very first images from my very first portfolio.

I've decided to scan a some slides of illustrations from my beginnings in the 70's and 80's; here are a few of them... There will likely be more to come.

Some recent illustrations

These are illustrations that go on different maps of Québec regions. They are meant to be used very small.

Quebec Illustrators auction poster illustration 198...

This was the illustration for a Quebec Illustrators auction poster in the 80's.
There was one every year for a few years then, but due to bids being so low, it was abandoned.

An illustration from the 80's

This was to illustrate an article in L'Actualité magazine, on young adults returning home to their parents.

With the help of references...

Here I am, dressed in a rental costume, to sevre as a model for this Thomas Jefferson illustration.

Jack in the Box

Prismacolor pencils on Canson paper © 1977

Toy car illustration

Here, just for the fun of it, is a little toy car illustration that I did a while back...

A beautiful poster by Josée Masse

This is my girlfriend's latest illustration. Isn't she talented?
It is a poster for an acrobat's circus here in Québec. It is acrylics painted on a wood panel.
This is the uncropped version.

By my talented girlfriend...

This wonderful card for her mother's 70th birthday.
She has always been an avid wild strawberries picker...

A green bouquet

Illustration © Luc Normandin

We're back!

While doing my taichi, last night, on my driveway, I realized that the mosquitoes really are back, and hungry as ever!
This is an illustration that I made for Muskol, a few years ago .

Illustration©Luc Normandin

My first portfolio illustration...in 1977!

Revamping my illustration site

I'm presently working on my illustration site.
I will most likely use SimpleViewer to show my different portfolios. It's clean looking and quite easy to configure. I just have to resize all my images first, and that's a lot of work!

An interview on Spraygraphic

I have been interviewed on Spraygraphic. It's about illustration.

More old digital art

A catalogue of old digital art

These are illustrations produced with Photoshop, beginning in the 90's.
There was a ten year period when I was more enclined to work on my computer than on my drawing table.
It has permitted me to understand the media; and now, I use both the brush and the computer in most of my illustrations, and that gives me a much greater control than at the time when doing art on a computer was unthinkable...