🎶Later on, we’ll conspire As we dream by the fire To face unafraid, The robot uprising Walking in a winter wonderland🎶

And here’s this year’s, which is something like, “person sleeping in bed/the pillow ghost that haunts their nightmares when they fall asleep,” but again, the drawing is more clear.

They start to get more conceptual. This one is something like “teddy bear that’s grown into a teenager,” but the drawing is very clear.

This one is “cubist sculpture.” Some very detailed design requests here.

Now we’re into rough sketches by the kid that accompany the ideas. Here’s “haunted house-plant.”

As soon as the previous Halloween was over, the kid said, “I know what I want to be next year— a barrel of toxic waste.”

This one was “creepy marionette.”

“Slimy alien.” You can see part of the process in these pictures.

The request here was simply “three-headed snake.”

This year’s challenge was “punk rock velociraptor.”