Halloween Pumpkins 2008

[amanuensis1]

So, here are the halloween pumpkins I carved for this year. And this year, I made the patterns myself:





This is the picture I began with for the faces:



Then, armed with suggestions from a tutorial website, all I did was stick it into Photoshop Elements, remove the saturation completely to make it black and white, and then I began playing with the Brightness and the Contrast settings until I got this:



And then I printed it and played about with a black ink pen for a bit.

Comments

[txilar.livejournal.com]

Woah, those are awesome! ^___^

[erin-trinity.livejournal.com]

WOW!!!

[nakedbee.livejournal.com]

Eee! Those are so pretty! What fantastic carving skills you have!

[gmth.livejournal.com]

Oh, they turned out GREAT! You are so creative. :-)

[twigged.livejournal.com]

That is AMAZING.

[kaostic.livejournal.com]

Whoa, you're creative and this is a really neat idea!
Thanks for sharing with us! ^^ ♥

[glockgal.livejournal.com]

Geez louise, those are FANTASTIC!!!! Pumpkin carving is a talent, man. My only wish is that I could get that sort of thing for, like, HP convention art galleries.

Hmmm...now I wanna do reasearch into trying to preserve carved pumpkins.... XD

[rane-ab.livejournal.com]

OMG, they're gorgeous!

[selve.livejournal.com]

These are amazing. *___* I now want to try my hand at shinigami pumpkins, but I lack both your skillz and a suitable place to display them (apartment dweller here).

What tools did you use? I'm guessing an xacto knife or razor?

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Fucking amazing, that's all I can say.

[all-my-colours.livejournal.com]

WOW!

[ithexamimi.livejournal.com]

WICKED.
*o*
I can't even carve a triangle, haha. *fails*
WOWOWOWOW.

[masakochan.livejournal.com]

*_* Awesome.

[bluestocking79.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! From one pumpkin carver to another, I have to tell you that's some excellent carving, especially considering that you developed the patterns yourself.

I'm still wibbling over what to put on mine this year. Sweeney Todd? Pirates of the Caribbean? HP characters (which ones, tbd)? I've thought about carving a D pumpkin, but I'm not sure the effect would be that great...

[elizardbits.livejournal.com]

Holy crap those are AWESOME. I really wish I had any sort of skillz at this kind of thing, but I tend to keep away from sharp objects for the safety of everyone involved.

[nami-assasin.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAA
*likes*

[ellianmeir.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

I wish I had pumpkins this year. I would do something similar since I'm already practiced with carving complicated images into them; I've done so since I was...about eleven.

[mybrokenlocket.livejournal.com]

Those came out really nice! Years ago some of my neighbors had an annual pumpkin carking party. The couple hosting it were a painter and a photographer, and they had all sorts of artsy, creative friends, so the pumpkins that got turned out were amazing.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, that came out so well!

[hyper-amychao.livejournal.com]

those are amazing... wow XD

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

That is so cool!

[tallulahgs]

Wow, those are brilliant - and so recogniseable!

[dbassassin.livejournal.com]

Those are so cool! I avoid pumpkin carving 'cause me + sharp things = trip to emergency room. *is jealous of carving talent*

[dreamer-067.livejournal.com]

You have seriously awesome skills. >:D I pumpkin carved... once? I failed so badly. D:

[rawrtothefifth.livejournal.com]

Ah! Those are sogood! I wish I could carve pumkins. I normally just end up cutting part of the person's face off or something so then I just get mad and stab the pumkin and hten I can't use it anymore lol