MaryAnn Loo's Faves

Part of a series of drawings following characters on a journey through strange and chaotic zones of a gigantic metropolis. I really enjoyed using the Sakura brush pen for this one.

Just sit and breathe. https://www.instagram.com/p/CfHpQKXpuHE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Skylight from Dialogues in Paradise by Can Xue. The light shrank back into two dots. A dark shadow brushed by, a clumsy night bird that shrieked and swooped toward the skylight, its huge wings tapping the roof fiercely, echoing like thunder.

URASHIMA THE FISHERMAN From Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen. Then a last song burst from him as he struggled with his loss: “My love, when after a night of longing day dawns and I stand at my open door, I hear far off waves breaking on the shores of your Paradise!” If only he hadn’t opened that jeweled box, people have said since, he could have been with her again. But the clouds hid her Paradise from him and left him nothing but his grief. #dailydrawing #folktales #kidlitart #watercolor #janeyolen #sofreakingsad #tonighticanwritethesaddestlines

THE LITTLE OLD WOMAN WITH FIVE COWS From Favorite Folktales from Around the World by Jane Yolen. One morning a little old woman got up and went to the field containing her five cows. She took from the earth a herb with five sprouts and, without breaking either root or branch, carried it home and wrapped it in a blanket and placed it on her pillow. Then she went out again and sat down to milk her cows. Suddenly she heard tambourine bells jingle and scissors fall, on account of which noise she upset the milk. Having run home and looked, she found that the plant was uninjured. Again she issued forth to milk the cows, and again thought she heard the tambourine bells jingle and scissors fall, and once more she spilled her milk. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnnCvkZpxW0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Halloween mini comic featuring my dog Louis, and is homage to the sign man from the old "Sesame Street" days. https://youtu.be/1VTX53tDkIE - hear it being read.

Watercolor and India ink on cold press cotton paper.

15-20 minute sketch using photo reference on Pinterest, markers, colored pencils, and acrylic pens on paper.

Watercolor and mixed media on paper.

Watercolor/ Mixed media on paper of “Yellow House” in the Lofoten Islands, Norway (referenced many photos of this on the internet).

gel ink pens

made with gel ink pen for a future art book about mediterranean way of life

Yoshi photo-bombed my cacti post-it note.

Drawing Prompt Submission

I've been mailing these quick, improvised, hand-drawn doodled envelopes out to random Instagram followers. I'll be doing more of them so follow me @doodlers and let's be friends.

Which is your favorite?