Hey, @veryspider.

I think there's plenty of people (though I'm not really one of them) who thinks clowns are cruel, so you might have actually hit the prompt on the head, anyway. :)

Regardless, it looks great. I guess you drew freehand using ink? That's amazing.

Now, you didn't mention it anywhere, but is that a knife that clown is holding? A pen? It's kind of hard to tell. And is that just a place where the palm lines come together on the other hand the clown is waving, or is that actually blood stains, or a cut?

Like I said, I think you may have arrived at cruel. Especially if I'm right about the knife. Maybe subtly cruel, but not that much. :)