Were we ever so young (Patreon)

I'm tidying my endless Photos library and found the picture below. Apparently one day in 2013 I decided to draw a huge picture of the Bad Machinery cast in my A3 pad. Knowing me, this will have been in one sitting. Now you might ask where this picture is now. I wish I knew. I couldn't draw something like this any more.

When I was about 15, I drew, from memory, the entire cast of the TV show Byker Grove. I was not watching the show at the time, and had no reference. Now, I'm not great at likenesses, but I've seldom been so satisfied with a drawing. I took it to school and pointed at it, look, I said, there is something here. And no one saw fit to disabuse me of this which, to say that we were 15, was as ringing an endorsement as you were ever going to get. Needless to say, I lost the drawing. It is probably filed with this one, in some dimensional pocket just out of reach.

It annoys me that there is some part of my brain that will serve up these little delights, but only, roughly, every ten years or so. The rest of the time, the factory just makes the same old baked beans.