Will Parents and his teachers noticed that at a very early age he was talented at drawing. He was 11 years old when he visited the Saturday morning classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. He made life drawings from nude modells and collected and studied anatomy books.
When his famaly moved to Detroid at the begining of WWII he attended the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts, made detailed charcoal drawings of nude modells and was sure that he would be an artist. He was 14.
At 18 he met Norman Rockwell who said after lookijng at his male nude studies, "Hey. You are a real artist!" and invited Will to learn Illustration from Him. Certainly Norman Rockwell influenced the rest of his life.
