Traditional Pumpkin Carving Contest


The object of this contest is to carve your own real pumpkin!

This is the Traditional Carving Contest!
There is also a Digital Contest, which can be found here.


Rules

1. You must submit one entry of a carved pumpkin. If no pumpkin is available to you, you may use a vegetable or fruit alternative. However, no other types of carvings will be accepted.

2. You must provide a minimum of 3 separate pictures of your carving process along with your Username and the Date physically displayed somewhere in each picture. You may provide a lit/unlit version of your final entry. Here is an example of how this should look:


You do not need to post them in a grid like this. I just did this to save space.

A Player Guide on How to Upload Images

3. You must actually be the one to create your entry! While assistance is fine, you cannot simply have someone else carve for you and then claim credit. If you are tracing an image for your entry, you must have been the one to originally create that image (Unless what you are tracing is a Sylestia asset, such as our pets, avatars, monsters, etc)! The main point of this contest is to have fun and to get involved in something outside of the digital world. So just do your best and have fun. =) We want to see your creativity!

4. Please do not reserve posts. Only post when you are ready to submit an entry. If your entry is still ongoing, you may post early with the progress that you currently have and edit your post as you finish.

5. Please do not ping me unless you have a specific question or concern that I need to address. Thank you.

6. The due date for submitting your entry is by the posted end date in the Fall Festival Overview Thread, which will be posted once the Fall Festival begins.


Notes

If this is your first time attempting to carve a pumpkin, here is a helpful guide on the entire process:

http://www.pumpkinpatchesandmore.org/makeajackolantern.php


Prizes

Everyone's submissions will be judged by Krinadon and Faiona where we will select First, Second, and Third place winners based on creativity, effort, and appeal.

All non-winning Participants will be entered into a drawing where 3 Lucky Winners will win 2,000, 1,000, and 500 Diamonds, respectively.

Have fun and enjoy!


1st Place Winner(s)

Prizes: 2,000 Diamonds, Free Stable, [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Fall Festival Themed Pet of Choice (2-Vis if Majestic) x2, [Philter of Trait Disruption] x3


Meltingstars



Tigress


2nd Place Winner(s)

Prizes: 1,000 Diamonds, Free Stable, [Peerless Avatar Token] x1, 3-Visible Fall Festival Themed Pet of Choice (2-Vis if Majestic), [Philter of Trait Disruption] x1


Angelzrulez



Cececat



Limor



Nayaris


All Participants

Prizes: Title: The Carver, [Fabled Brew Catalyst] x1, [Premium Vial Holder] x2, [Box of Brewing Supplies] x1, [Box of Brewing Agents] x2, [Chocolate Coins] x1,000


All non-winning Participants will be entered into a drawing where 3 Lucky Winners will win 2,000, 1,000, and 500 Diamonds, respectively.

1st Place Raffle Winner
Winner: Hysteriantics
Prize: 2,000

2nd Place Raffle Winner
Winner: Dragoil
Prize: 1,000

3rd Place Raffle Winner
Winner: Dreamfyre, Savynn
Prize: 500

*Due to such few participants this year, added an additional 3rd Place Raffle Winner to make sure everyone who participated with valid entries in this contest 'won' something. Thank you very much to those who participated.

I carved my pumpkin already ... hope that's okay XD We went to a pumpkin patch last month and I decided to carve it for the contest!

The inspiration was some of the Sylestia species going trick-or-treating, so I have a Sylvorpa in a ghost costume, a Zolnixi in a lion costume, and a Luffox in a taco costume.



Then I took a pin and poked the design into the pumpkin so I could have an outline to carve.



And then I had a little disaster. The whole bottom of my pumpkin rotted because I couldn't work on it for a day so I had to cut it off. I cut off all the rotten bits and continued to carve.



And then it was done! ... And yes, I did take the pictures in my bathroom because it's the only dark room in my house XD

This is the only photo i have of it before we had a wind storm and it broke sorry about that.

Here's my pumpkin carved for dual purpose contest entry and Halloween decoration. Nothing too fancy, just an owl.

Starfox pumpkin

Had a bit of fun, sadly not time for new art sketches so used something I had. Kinda interesting translating it into a carving.

Here's mine:

Here is my entry!

Im not very skilled, but I tried my best to carve a "traditional" Jack-o'-lantern.

Here is the Making of:



And the final result:

Sorry about the terrible quality image, only camera available at the moment is a flip phone.

I would have included a picture after I'd marked the design but before I started carving, but it didn't show up at all.
So there's a photo from half-ish way through carving.

finished

aaand one in better light