Illus­trat­ing ideas that appeal to the senses.
Super-realism with a touch of fantasy.

I cre­ate award-winning illus­tra­tions for com­mer­cial, edu­ca­tional, and sci­en­tific clients. Most of my work is highly detailed dig­i­tal paint­ings. This is sup­ported by a strong back­ground in tra­di­tional draw­ing, paint­ing, and field sketch­ing. I’m not sat­is­fied until my clients love my work.

Images are like magic to me. I’m almost obsessed with mak­ing pic­tures. The world con­tains infi­nite details, and I’m fas­ci­nated with each and every one of them. So I work in a super-realistic style with a tra­di­tional painter’s eye.

But I want my illus­tra­tions to be bet­ter than real in the viewer’s imag­i­na­tion. Not only will I ren­der that cookie accu­rately and make it beau­ti­ful, you will want to take a bite out of it!

Con­tact me if you have a project I might be able to help you with.
I’ll take care of the details.

Expe­ri­ence

Illus­tra­tions for adver­tis­ing and prod­uct pack­ag­ing: Super-realistic Illus­tra­tions that sur­pass pho­tographs in appeal to the imag­i­na­tion, espe­cially in hard to pho­to­graph sub­jects like food.

Children’s book illus­tra­tion: Real­is­tic illus­tra­tion with per­son­al­ity that helps a young reader learn while becom­ing absorbed in a story. I’ve also cre­ated art for children’s prod­ucts like pop-up books, games, and toys.

Inter­pre­tive exhibit illus­tra­tion: Besides pro­duc­ing accu­rate and attrac­tive art for inter­pre­tive exhibits, I can pro­vide graphic design, graphic panel dig­i­tal file prepa­ra­tion, and over­see print­ing in a vari­ety of sig­nage media. I’ve also served as a con­sul­tant for exhibit design devel­op­ment and testing.

Maps and info­graph­ics: Find­ing your way through a well designed map is like walk­ing through a zen gar­den. A map can con­vey an inte­grated under­stand­ing of an impos­si­bly com­plex sub­ject like no other type of image. I can do that.

Illus­tra­tions for sci­ence pub­lish­ing: Highly detailed images for text books and cor­po­rate com­mu­ni­ca­tions that make com­pli­cated sub­jects easy to under­stand for both kids and adults. In fact, if kids can under­stand it, usu­ally the adults can too.

Graphic Design: I don’t want to say that I can do every­thing, but I do have a cou­ple of decades of expe­ri­ence as a full time graphic designer. I apply those skills now mostly to my illus­tra­tion projects.

CONTACT:

Paul Mirocha Illustration

520.343.0090

425 E.17th Street
Tuc­son, AZ 85701
USA