Tostoini

@tostoini.it

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Illustrator with a soft spot for odd creatures, graphic recorder, friend of manatees, anthropologist, ND. I wrote&illustrated Fossili Viventi published by Aboca Kids. She/her www.tostoini.it

Patreon preview card from Tostoini with the words "Puzzling, pointless progress" superimposed on a detail of a bigger illustration
Portrait illustration of two striped cats with round eyes and faces on a cat scratcher, surrounded by a garden jungle
Vincenzina the cat sitting on the edge of the balcony at dusk surrounded by plants and string lights
Illustration of a pink leaf bug in the forest
Illustration of a uromis vika giant rat sipping a coconut with a straw
Illustration of a potamotrigon tex stingray swimming
Illustration of a Pheidole Drogon ant peeking form behind a tree
Illustration of an Eriovixia Gryffindori spider on a leaf in the forest
Preview of patreon post from tostoini with a Nineties colorful pattern and the words "when life gives you lemons, bring a zester - A zesty drink to make the messy lasagna of living a little more digestible."
A manatee occupying almost all the image surrounded by the words TAKE UP SPACE
This is why we can't have nice thing grumpy bird
a big manatee snout taking most of the space in the illustration and the words "the june tostoini newsletter is steamed" and the link to the patreon page
Tostoini dedicating a copy of fossili viventi to a child while sitting on the grass
Pastiglie leone hard candies from turin on blue background
Trickster kitsune goddess with a kimono with manatees pattern on a ocean blue wavy background, a mischievous smirk and a halo made from a sliver of moon
a card with the tile "A beacon of weirdness" and under that the text "I fel that I am well on my way to fully transform in the Unmanageable Old Lady I was always destined to be, shedding one layer of decency at a time.
A illustration of an artichoke on pink background and the words "go lick an artichoke"
An illustration of a pencil writing the words "work abolitionist" and a small plant blooming from it
Illustrated portrait of Irma Bandiera, Italian partisan fighter, tortured and killed by Nazifascist regime
I will eat you in the end by Marianna Coppo, with her original drawing sticked to the wall with fluo colorful washi tape, a glass vase to pick what you'll become after your death and a book fo drawing requests
Woolf! Woolf! Exhibition of original drawings by Letizia Iannaccone at Senape Vivaio Urbano in Bologna, with her drawing hanging between lusciuos plants
Atmosferico festival at teatro testoni card, a event iside BOOM! Crescere nel libri in Bologna
A close-up of the illustration inspired by Pinocchio novel of the scene where Pinocchio met a flaming snake, tries to sneak around it, faceplant in the dirt and the snake laugh so much that it dies. The illustration depict the giant snake taking most of the image, laughing uproariously, spitting flames
A illustration inspired by Pinocchio novel of the scene where Pinocchio met a flaming snake, tries to sneak around it, faceplant in the dirt and the snake laugh so much that it dies. The illustration depict the giant snake taking most of the image, laughing uproariously, spitting flames, while pinocchio is planted in the dirt, flaying its legs
Card with the book signing hours at aboca stand at Bologna Book Fair: monday april the 13th at 15.00 book signing by Roberta Ragona, author and illustrator of Fossili Viventi, Hall 25 Stand B12
Roberta Ragona aka Tostoini, lookin sideways with a smirk, in the Aboca Edizioni Stand surrounded by Aboca books as her own, Fossili Viventi, and many many plants
The preview of the monthly illustration for my patreons
A manatee astronaut loungin jn a crater on the moon watching back to earth and the words "a room with a view" with the word room striken and corrected to satellite
An illustration of a capibara swimming with a juvenile on her back, and silhouettes of fishes in the water
A page from Living Fossils by Roberta Ragona with facts and illustrations about capibaras
Dulcie and eddie from deadloch
tree mermaids, one is half human and half seal, one half human and half beaver, one half human and half otter.
four manatees with seashells and starfish bras with tree mermaids
four manatees with seashells and starfish bras with the words "not all sirens wear shells"
four manatees with seashells and starfish bras
four manatees with seashells and starfish bras with tree mermaids and the words "not all sirens wear shells" #sciart
An opossum playing dead on a pink background in a golden frame with a ribbon with the words: "days without embarassing myself: 0" #possumcore #sciart
An illustration of a siamese cat with suspicious eyes on a pink background and the words "well well well if it isn't the consequences of my own actions"
A preview of a Patreon reward illustration with a text that said "If hope is not enough there's always spite"
A line of manatees flying in a pink sunrise sky on a dreamy pastel seaside landscape seen from a light gauze opem drape
Limulo (Horseshoe crab) page from Living Fossils Book
Illustrated portrait of a smiling old Charles Darwin
Manatee as Botticelli's Venus surg9ng from the water on a seashell
Miss Piggy and Sabrina Carpenter with matching outfits on The Muppet Show
A manatee surrounded by jellyfishes in soft pastel colors on a pink background and the words "BE SOFT TAKE NO SHIT"
Illustration of a pink worm shaped like a star with a pair of sunglasses and the words "YES I'M A STAR"
An illustration by Tostoini with a silhouette of an house composed by three people embracing, one reading a book in a relaxed pose, and a cat and a dog. The cat silhouette and balloon saying purr is the chimney of the house. Behind them the words HOME IS PEOPLE
An illustration of a vase in greek style on a pink background with instead of classical black and red figures feature a pair of headphones, a lyre, a slice of watermelon, the trinacria, and a twig with acorns and the name 'delia' in the middle
Moomin fanart by tostoini with a manatee diving in the ocean in the style of Tove Jansson
A manatee illustration on pink background surrounded by the words tough world soft manatees 2026
July page for the 2026 calendar tough world soft manatees by tostoini with a manatee surrounded by jellyfishes and the words "be soft take no shit"
Cover of the 2026 calendar tough world soft manatees by Tostoini
August page of the tough world soft manatees calendar with an illustration of manatees with seashells bras on the wrong place for a manatee and the words "not all sirens wear shells"
The january page from 2026 tough world soft manatees calendar, with an illustration of manatee with the words 'days without embarassing myself: zero"
Cover of the 2026 calendar by Tostoini with a manatee on a pink background and the words "Tough world soft manatees"
Lower half of the variant poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once And the words: nothing mothers! We are all small and stupid! Enjoy this quite RIDICULOUS Bagel! #tostoini #illustration #everythingeverywhereallatonce #variantposter #neuroqueer
Upper half of the alternate poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once
Alternate poster for Everything Everywhere All At Once by Tostoini with an illustration of a Everything bagel dotted with googly eyes, half black and white and half with rainbow sparkly colors
A pink earthworm with sunglasses surrounding the words "the day is long but I am longer" #tostoini #illustration
A spot illustration with different gar species from the Pesce Caimano double spread from Fossili Viventi written and illustrated by Roberta Ragona Tostoini #garweek #SciArt