Like pieces on a haunted chessboard, this year’s Drawlloween figures moved through the shadows in ways both calculated and chaotic. Each drawing served as a nightly gambit in MabGraves’ ghoulish game, from the opening sketches of spooky season to the endgame’s darkest delights. As October’s pawns advanced day by day, my sketchbook transformed into a checkered realm of midnight musings and eerie encounters. Through MabGraves’ masterful prompts, my art danced like a dark knight across the board, capturing moments of macabre magic and sinister whimsy. Each illustration was both a move and a countermove in this grand Halloween tournament, where creativity and spookiness played to a delightfully spine-chilling stalemate.