One sketch 214) #inktober2018 prompt 25 - Prickly

It make me feel old, and old at heart

For I was already a dad

When Sonic was state of the art

Out of inspiration, and short on time, I sketched a quick Sonic the hedgehog. I remember when the Mega Drive first came out and I bought the original Sonic for my oldest two kids. What a great game. I am not ashamed to admit that I still have a megadrive, and still play the game from time to time. 

One Sketch 213) #inktober2018 prompt 24 - Chop

I find that it helps me relax

It's something that cribbage just lacks

I play with my chopper

It's really a whopper

In fact it's a hell of an axe

I thought about karate chop and pork chop, but in the end decided to once again go literal. So sue me. 

One Sketch 212) #intober 2018 prompt 23 - Muddy

Muddy Old Man
Bearing floating palaces,
Teardrops of wonderful
Shabby gaudiness.

Muddy. You know, I'd really love to ride on a Mississippi riverboat,. I really do think they are magnificent looking things, and so a boat on 'Big Muddy' was the first thing that occurred when I saw this prompt

One Sketch 211) Monday 22nd - #inktober2018 prompt 22 - Expensive

This mastiff's a dog from Tibet
That's very expensive to get
One million quid
Would be too low a bit
Value for money? Nyet.

The Tibetan Mastiff is, according to Google, the world's most expensive species of dog. It's a huge thing, and looks half lion, half dog to me.

One Sketch 210) #inktober2018 Day 21 - Prompt- Drain

Thousands pass each morning
Spewed out
From their homes in the South
They speak a language
Of money.

London's Waterloo and City Line, which is now part of the London Underground network, is nicknamed The Drain. Until the 1990s it was operated by British Rail, and used trains which were quite distinctive and different from the Tube.

One Sketch 209) #inktober2018 prompt 20 - breakable

I am a prison
What do you see
When you look in the mirror?
I see bars, and walls
I see locked doors.

Wow, that's a bit heavy, isn't it. Well, I do work with teenagers , and I think that we ignore their mental health issues at our own peril.
I did make another sketch today, another of my public transport sketches. Here t'is.

C'est Paris, une cite jolie

Si belle, et si plein d'desprit

Son Metro, si vite

Le meilleur, elite,

Donc j'aime aller la, oh oui, oui.

(This is what I was trying to say with my schoolboy French - 

It's Paris, a pretty city

So beautiful, so full of spirit

Its Metro, so fast

The best, the top drawer

So I like to go there, yes, yes. ) 

One Sketch 208) #inktober2018 Prompt 19 - Scorched

The Doctor is always a hit
Or such in my books have I writ
Perhaps then I ought
Recall when he fought
The fiery fiend from the pit

I was just looking for a different take on scorched, today's prompt, and came up with this beast from the Doctor Who story "The Satan Pit"