INDIPENDENT PUBLICATIONS

THE BOOK OF PIKERMI
January 2023 – SIMONE ZOCCANTE

TIME TRAVELLER – PALEOART MAGAZINE – PILOT
October 2022 | SIMONE ZOCCANTE / DIORAMA NATURE EDIZIONI

THE RIVER PHARAOH
July 2022 | SIMONE ZOCCANTE

MANUALE DEL WORKSHOP DISEGNO NATURALISTICO
January 2022 | SIMONE ZOCCANTE

ARTIFICI NATURALI
2020 – First Edition | SIMONE ZOCCANTE

PROFESSION: WILDLIFE ILLUSTRATOR
2019 | SIMONE ZOCCANTE

VISION – ALLA RICERCA DELL’ARMONIA
2016 | SIMONE ZOCCANTE

FEATURED

VIAGGIO NELL’ITALIA SELVAGGIA. GUIDA ALLE PIÙ BELLE ESPERIENZE NATURALISTICHE
June 2023 | Colombo, Tomasinelli | RICCA EDITORE

WHEN THE “COMBAT WOMBAT” BECAME AN APEX PREDATOR
December 2022 | PBS EONS

LE MERAVIGLIE DELLA PALEONTOLOGIA
June2022 | EDIZIONI BELVEDERE, S.P.I. SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA

INDIPENDENT PUBLICATIONS

THE BOOK OF PIKERMI

Year: January 2023

The book of Pikermi” is an indipendent publication about the Late Miocene fossil site of Pikermi, Greece.
Pikermi is on of the most important Late Miocene fossil sites, it showcases a well preserved and complete record of that epoch.
This publication was created to present an exhibition proposal to the Goulandris Natural History Museum of Athens.

TIME TRAVELLER – PALEOART MAGAZINE – PILOT

Year: October 2022

Time Traveller” is a self published, upcoming magazine about Paleoart.
It is the first Italian Paleoart Magazine, even though it will be available also in English.
In October 2022 I have published the zero issue.
The issue number one of this magazine will be available in 2023.
The aim of “Time Traveller” is to discuss about the contemporary topics of modern paleoart and to feed the community with food for thought for what concernes the artistic representation of extinct animals and Natural history.

THE RIVER PHARAOH

Year: July 2022

The River Pharaoh” is a booklet created to be selled with a limited edition fine art prints set.
The protagonist of the booklet and the fine art prints was Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a well known dinosaur from Cretaceous North Africa, here named with the deserved moniker of “River Pharaoh”.
This publication presented information about this dinosaur, in particular about its ecology, its anatomy, the environment it lived in and the process that took me to reconstruct it following the latest scientific studies.

MANUALE DEL WORKSHOP DISEGNO NATURALISTICO

Year: January 2022

This publication was created for a wildlife drawing workshop that I held in the Museum of Ecology of Cesena (Italy) in 2022.

In this book are included some of the basis for the drawing of animals.

ARTIFICI NATURALI – First edition

Year: 2020

Artifici Naturali” (literally “Natural Artifacts”) is a 2020 illustrated essay about the digital wildlife and naturalistic illustration.

In this book we take a deep dive into this discipline, exploring various cases, styles and uses of wildlife illustration.

PROFESSION: WILDLIFE ILLUSTRATOR

Year: 2019

This publication is a booklet that aims to present and explain my work (natural history illustrator) to potential clients and prospects.

VISION – ALLA RICERCA DELL’ARMONIA

Year: 2016

This publication is a catalogue of my first art exhibitions in a gallery, that took place in 2016.

Inside this catalogue are presented all the works included in the exhibition with a brief explanations of the context in which every work had been created.

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

VIAGGIO NELL’ITALIA SELVAGGIA. GUIDA ALLE PIÙ BELLE ESPERIENZE NATURALISTICHE

Year: June 2023

Author: Marco Colombo, Francesco Tomasinelli

Publisher: Ricca Editore

This is 2023 a book edited by Ricca Editore (a publishing house specialized in wildlife field guides and natural science books).
For this book I’ve been commissioned a dinosaur illustration (Eubrontes/Kayentapus). The illustration is inserted in the pages dedicated to the “Lavini di Marcosite in Trentino Alto Adige (Italy).
Lavini di Marco is a site where there are dinosaur footprints dated to the Early Jurassic (around 200 million years ago).

One of them was the theropod Eubrontes/Kayentapus, a carnivore dinosaur that could have been similar to North American dinosaur Dilophosaurus.

WHEN THE “COMBAT WOMBAT” BECAME AN APEX PREDATOR

Year: December 2022

Publisher: PBS EONS

In this video edited by PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) about Marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex), an Australian marsupial Pleistocene predator, is included an illustration of this animal that I realized for Paleostock in 2021.

LE MERAVIGLIE DELLA PALEONTOLOGIA

Year: June 2022

Publisher: EDIZIONI BELVEDERE, S.P.I. SOCIETÀ PALEONTOLOGICA ITALIANA

The volume includes a selection of paleoartworks by various artists who participated in the virtual exhibitionThe Wonders of Paleontology,” organized in conjunction with the Congress of the Italian Paleontological Society and the Paleontologists in Progress (PaiP) young paleontologists working group. The exhibition aimed to promote and enhance paleoart in Italy, both within and beyond the academic realm.

If you are interested in using this image for your projects and works you can contact me and we can discuss about licensing.

All images © Simone Zoccante 2018-2023. Please do not reproduce without the expressed written consent of Simone Zoccante.