Ants & Ogden Nash

December 31, 2012February 22, 2013 | Hannah Sterry

‎”The ant has made himself illustrious
Through constant industry industrious.

So what.

Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid.”

~Ogden Nash

I have to write some music to accompany this. It might be my favourite assignment of the year (Ogden Nash has written so many brilliant, short, witty poems).

The picture on the right is a pencil sketch I did a few years ago; ants (and other insects) are good fun to draw.

Anyway, Happy New Year to you all and hello to any fellow Open University students!

~Hannah

Sterry Cartoons: Crotchety!

Crotchety Crotchet - A music joke cartoon by Sterry Cartoons.

October 16, 2012March 11, 2019 | Hannah Sterry

It’s been a productive cartooning day… sorry to end it on such an angry note! 😛

On the subject of notes, I’d really appreciate it if I could have a few more likes on the Sterry Cartoons facebook page. Sorry to ask – I’m hoping to get enough people involved so that we can have some really good competitions and giveaways!

Hope the cartoons keep you smiling!

All the best,

Hannah Sterry x

Sterry Cartoons: Are ewe my mum?

Q: Are sheep just clouds with legs? A: In illustration, yes. Hannah Sterry Cartoons.

October 16, 2012March 11, 2019 | Hannah Sterry

Sheep are really clouds with legs.

This is an idea I’ve had for a while, and I’m sure someone else must have done it, but I thought it would be good drawing practice anyway! Feel free to comment with links if you’ve seen/drawn anything similar. 🙂

Sterry Cartoons have invaded Facebook, Google+ and Twitter too!

Sterry Cartoons: Show us your Bass Face!

Show us your Bass Face! - Funny, humorous music photo-cartoon by Hannah Sterry.

October 15, 2012 | Hannah Sterry

Noticed a face in the boyfriend’s bass and had to share!

I’d love to do a series of instrument photo-cartoons so if you reckon your instrument would make a good cartoon, send me a photo/link via twitter, facebook or my contact form and I’ll try to turn it in to a character and feature it on the facebook page!

Spread the word and lets see how much of the orchestra we can cover! 🙂

Sterry Cartoons have invaded Facebook, Google+ and Twitter too!

Sterry Cartoons: Breve!

BREVE! Funny music cartoon from Sterry Cartoons.

October 4, 2012March 11, 2019 | Hannah Sterry

“Breves should not be called breves… especially when you’re a woodwind player and breving is blooming difficult.”

I realise this cartoon isn’t quite as accessible as some of my other music ones, because breves aren’t very commonly used, so here’s a chart briefly showing the note lengths (with the breve right at the top) and a link to wikipedia’s page on breves.

Agh! Don’t look!

Sterry Cartoons have invaded Facebook, Google+ and Twitter!

Sterry Cartoons: Unhappea

Unhappea - A cartoon/comic by Sterry Cartoons (Hannah Sterry).

October 2, 2012October 2, 2012 | Hannah Sterry

Here’s a quick cartoon idea that accidentally appeared to me this morning!

Agh! Don’t look!

Sterry Cartoons have invaded Facebook, Google+ and Twitter!

“How far do these music jokes go?”

August 31, 2012September 12, 2012 | Hannah Sterry

Answer: Too far!

Yes, I have some more music cartoons for you and they’ll be available in my shop shortly (when I get round to it). There are more over on Sterry Cartoons facebook page.

In the meantime, it’s been an exciting few weeks and I haven’t blogged much, so here’s what’s been happening recently:

The Sterrys live music for Tuesday Night is Music Night at The Cottage Hotel have been a great success and we’ve been asked to continue through September! Earlier in August we (Hannah and John Sterry) also played there to raise money for Hope Cove Lifeboat and someone was kind enough to to take this photo:

It was a wonderful place to play, partly because the weather was so amazing and I managed to get a picture of the view from the terrace. It’s really lovely on sunny evenings on the Tuesday nights, because as we’re playing we can watch the sun setting over the sea – it’s beautiful.

Exciting news:

I’m finally learning to drive after years of putting it off because of university and moving!

The Boyfriend Song now has a much better delivery and set of chords and I need to practice it to perfection!

My SketchBook is filling up really quickly and I’ve been talking to a local animator about possibly animating some of my cartoons!

Anyway… that’ll do for today, but I’ll keep you updated as this all progresses (when I find time to blog, that is).

Feel free to ask me any questions or just have a nice chat in the comments! 🙂

Music Cartoon: Minimalism

August 17, 2012September 13, 2012 | Hannah Sterry

Less is more is a phrase that was repeated to me from a very early age, although this may have been because toddler-me was extremely messy and seemed to think that no wall should be free from gigantic crayon scribbles!

Now, I generally manage to keep my scribbles on paper, but I’m trying my luck with vector graphics in a futile attempt to clean up my act (and my cartoons). “Minimalism” is my very simple first attempt at drawing in Inkscape.

What do you reckon?

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