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I'm in the mood to do some pumpkin carving now that Halloween is only two days away. I'll post pictures of my shit once it's done, and if it turns out good.

Anyone else into this? You guys should post your images if you are.

I'm so mad. So I made what I thought would be an easy to follow template. I knew that I needed a decent size pumpkin so I went to go find one. Well, I couldnt' find an overly large one, so I bought the best one I could find.

Turns out it was too small, and my whole fucking thing fell apart. It would have looked like shit even if it didn't fall apart. What a waste. Tomorrow I'm finding a big fucking pumpkin and trying again.

Pretty plain old looking pumpkin, but my daughter was pretty happy with it.

Sweet.

i did one yesterday at home...i didnt have time to take a pic of it.

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I love the Somebody Get Me the Ghostbusters avatar. HAHAHAHA I loled. Didn't know where else to slip this message in.

yeah i was watching it last night and that part happened. i had to make it my avatar.

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Hahahhaa. I tried to find a picture of Winston saying "Maybe the dead HAAAAVE been rising" but I couldn't find it. Though I did find footage from when he's saying to Ray about stuff in the bible, like right before he says the line. But the shot sucks because both he and Ray are in it together. When he says his line it's right on his face. thats what I wanted.

I was hoping that maybe Wegmen's would have some larger size pumpkins and I didn't see anything. I guess the one I had last night was the best size I'm gonna get. This blows.

Okay, so I was pretty much determined to make the pumpkin I wanted to make after the fiasco last night. I think I had dreams about it. Sometimes I just want to make something, and when it doesn't happen, I go nuts.

This is the first time I wanted to "seriously" try to do a decent pumpkin. Well, okay, it's a second attempt. About two years ago I tried my hand at a Solid Snake and it looked like a wreck. I was kind of trying to over achieve with that one. So for this I wanted to make something more simple than the design I used before. I decided I wanted to make a Harry Potter pumpkin (of course Jim said I made a pumpkin of myself), and this is the result.







It actually doesn't look anything like the stencil I made for it. Once again I was kind of over achieving. First off, I needed a bigger pumpkin for the detail I wanted to go into, but I just couldn't find one. I kind of knew I bit off more than I could chew at this point, so I made a bunch of changes to it on the fly.

This was the stencil I made and the picture I used as a refference.

HAHAHAH, I THOUGHT IT WAS A PUMPKIN OF YOU! Then I got to the end and saw that it was Harry. HAHAHAHHAHAHHA

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You know... it figures. I don't even have short hair or glasses that big (anymore).

haha, I should get a picture of my art teacher/coach's Harry Potter Pumpkin relief carving up here, its freaking awesome!

Yeah I want to know how people do those things. Like what tools they use, cause some of them look so awesome.

You know I searched and search all day to find something and I couldnt, but then I found this like 5 minutes ago.

http://people.howstuffworks.com/pumpkin-carve1.htm

My wife actually has a bunch of tools for linolium relief prints, I actually thought about using those but wasn't sure if it would do the trick. I might have to do another one tomorrow now.

That's a totally kick ass pumpkin man! I thought it was Harry Potter right away....probably because I don't know you lol.

Check out mine




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wow...that is pretty sweet even if you didn't make it.

IT'S PUMPKIN TIME!

Anyone plan on carving some pumpkins? I basically plan on doing it all day tomorrow. I will share the results unless they're absolutely awful.

You should be playing Uncharted instead!

Did mine today, just a run of the mill pumpkin with busted teeth as usual. Getting excited for All Hallows Eve

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Here's my attempts this year.



This is the first year I really attempted to carve a pumpkin using a dremel tool. I used that, an exacto knife, and a relief carving tool. It was really hard actually and a complete mess.

The one on the left is John Locke from Lost, and the one on the right is The King of Pop himself. My template for Michael didn't work out too well, so he is mostly free hand. Locke's shoulder is also supposed to be longer, but the way his template was taped down it made it look smaller. What I really need next year are bigger pumpkins. I always say I need a bigger pumpkin, then i can't find them and end up using medium size ones. It's too hard to do all the small details when they're that small.

Damn, those are really good! How long did it take?

Thanks! A while. I'd say maybe over 4 hours total. But that includes cleaning the pumpkin, cutting it open, gutting it and all that stuff.