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It’s hard to believe that Mab Graves (@mabgraves) – one of the most popular leaders of the #drawlloween community – didn’t celebrate Halloween when she was growing up. Her fantastical drawings of endearing, creepy girls grew from her own wrestling with her conservative Midwest upbringing, where she says she felt like a “misunderstood monster” herself. For the #drawlloween challenge, a month-long project where artists create and post a different piece every day, Mab likes to go deeper with the same theme that features in her art year-round: finding the innocence in things generally seen as dark, and the knowing sadness in a subject generally seen as innocent: little girls. But it’s one little boy that really brings the holiday home for her. “I’m not a mom, just an auntie, but I’m super close to my nephew. I want him to have all the magical memories I missed out on. Halloween is our special holiday together!”

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