So I thought I was good at pumpkin carving! Then I tried to be impressive and carve something cool other than your basic face. A dirigible. It didnt go so well. Heres an in-progress pic:

Going not-so-great already. And Id managed to get pumpkin guts all over myself, which was annoying.

Tons of pumpkin bits all over the floor, one break, and one broken knife later, I got this: (Its double sided to let enough light out because the dirigible design didnt really have a lot of space.)


Its double sided. Go me. (And its a zombie on the face side, because thats the side where I broke the knife and spent ten minutes wedging it out. Yay!)

Thank you for looking at my display of ineptitude.

First time entering this contest. its not very pretty. Would have been better if we had not lost all of my tools from the pumpkin carving set. I'll have to buy new ones next year.


First I draw...Yes I am terrible at drawing.....Yes its a unicorn, that's what my daughter wanted on her Pumpkin or her Punkin as she calls it.


The Guts of Gordina Gourd.



A bowlful of punkin


Carving has begun



More Carving



Finalizing


Lighting test



Final Picture.




Welp Thats my entry. Not bad for using oversized kitchen knives...still wish I could have found that carving kit with its nicer tools...sigh.

Here's mine, I sketched out my stencil and lined it digitally before reprinting it and carving.

Here's my carving- Vampire Ninja Turtle

Begining~


Carving~


Lighting~(Also only the word "Boo" showed up in the end, I couldn't carve "Yakasha" enough to show light through it)


Final~


Carving is a lot harder than drawing, :P I found that out the hard way

I tried to draw a pokemon Haunter creature on my pumpkin.
These colorful pumpkins are so much more dense then regular pumpkins... I may try to re carve the face to show up more but for now....

My fingers really hurt after this, but I'm happy with the results!

1. Carving and gutting the pumpkin (I can't cut circles)


2. Drew the design, and this is Cloudjumper btw. I hope using characters from movies is allowed.


3. Progress picture


4. Finished carving (oops there's still some lines left)


5. Lit up!


And we're done! Please let me know if I've done anything wrong
~Dinnerbone

OMG! Dinnerbone, that is so beautiful! I wish I could carve like that!

Thank you!

HI! So, I ended up carving a pumpkin on a whim for this contest at school, and while I did take pictures at different stages of the carving I forgot to add the date and my username to the picture. My pumpkin also finally collapsed in on itself yesterday, so I can't take anymore pictures of it. I did the carving process over 2 days, one at school, and one at home when I didn't like what I did at school so I tried again. I do have the dates of when the photos were taken from my phone, but no username. Would I have to carve a new one to participate in this contest?

Link: https://www.sylestia.com/forums/?thread=67450&page=3#29 Author: Snowyh2o Time Posted: 10/29/2018 at 11:57 AM HI! So, I ended up carving a pumpkin on a whim for this contest at school, and while I did take pictures at different stages of the carving I forgot to add the date and my username to the picture. My pumpkin also finally collapsed in on itself yesterday, so I can't take anymore pictures of it. I did the carving process over 2 days, one at school, and one at home when I didn't like what I did at school so I tried again. I do have the dates of when the photos were taken from my phone, but no username. Would I have to carve a new one to participate in this contest?

If you can take a final picture of your Username/Date with something identifiable with the other pictures, that's fine. So like - in the same kitchen or whatever would work.