One Sketch 200) (TWO HUNDRED!) #inktober2018 Prompt - Cruel

Corporal Punishment?
Major Cruelty.

31 years I've spent in teaching, and one thing I'm constantly grateful for is the fact that the ambiguity over corporal punishment was brought to an end when it was banned in English and Welsh schools in August 1987, just before I took up my first ever teaching post.

I once got into a fight at school, in a PE lesson. It honestly wasn't my fault. The other guy started hitting me, so I hit him back. Cue the Head of PE - a Yorkshireman, short on temper but long on beer gut - arriving. He broke up the fight, then took off his trainer and gave each of us a beating while at the same time chanting, "That'll - teach - you - vi-o-lence - is - wrong!" I would have suspected that this was a crude attempt at ironic hunour, had it not been for the fact that he was a bear of very little brain. I was only 12 but I could see the inherent flaw in his argument, but this fuckwit Charmer saw no contradiction. Moron. Sadly he was never struck down with the bout of amoebic dysentery I heartily wished him.

Not that I am bitter, you understand.

One Sketch 199) Medusapunzel #inktober2018 prompt - flowing

The problem with snakes for your hair?
It encourages people to stare
They rant and they moan
While turning to stone
Sometimes it seems life isn't fair

I had the idea of Rapunzel - long flowing hair - to fit the inktober prompt, and then the thought occurred that maybe I could to a take on Medusa. Combine the two and you've got - Medusapunzel! No? Well, please yourselves.

One Sketch 198) #inktober2018 - prompt Precious

Enjoy these days, 

My son

For he will grow

Before you know. Remember this, and then

In years to come,

You too can say to him

Enjoy these days,

My son.

Today's Inktober prompt is Precious, and so I couldn't resist sketching my son, holding his son. I wish I was skillfulenough to render just how gorgeous my grandson is. 

One Sketch 197) #inktober2018 Prompt - Star

(To the tune of the Robin Hood theme)

Norrin Rad, Norrin Rad,

Riding through the stars,

Norrin Rad, Norrin Rad

Never goes in bars

Well, I don't recall him ever doing so in the comics. If you're not an aficionado, Norrin Rad was the Surfer's name before he became Galactus' herald. Long story. I first encountered the Silver Surfer when Marvel started reprinting American comics from the 60s in the UK in the mid 70s. I was a fan of Mighty World Of Marvel which featured the Hulk in the lead story, Daredevil in the middle story, and Fantastic Four in the third. The Surfer made his debut in a Fantastic Four serial. If I recall correctly.

One Sketch 196) #inktober2018 Prompt 7 - Exhausted

I am not sleeping,
Not exhausted.
And though I may look slumped
Inert
Listless
I am ready for the chase.
I am merely rehearsing
Death is inevitable
And it is in my gift
To you.

Latest Inktober prompt, and that's probably about all I can say about it.

One Sketch 195) #inktober2018 Prompt 6 - Drooling

I really don't want to be cruel
But think I should say, as a rule
That a collie or lab
Is usually fab
Apart from their terrible drool

I once saw a piece of graffiti which said 'Pavlov's dogs drool, ok?!' Well, it made me laugh, but then I was only a kid at the time, I suppose.

One Sketch 194) #inktober2018 Prompt 5 - Chicken

Run, Colonel, run Colonel, run run run
Fetch a semi-automatic gun, gun, gun
That cock's nuts
And boy he hates your guts
Coz you stuck his mum in a bun, bun, bun.
(with apologies to Noel Gay and Ralph Butler)

I just wanted to do something different rather than just drawing a chicken, and this image popped into my head.