Halloween Pumpkin 2009

[amanuensis1]

I didn't carve my Halloween pumpkin this year until the 31st!

This is the original screencap that I chose:

Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji



And this is how the pumpkin came out (unretouched photo!):





This is what I did with it to make the screencap a template, playing with the saturation and brightness in Photoshop:



Here's the finished pumpkin in normal light, without being lit from within:



And, again, the finished product.



I leveled up this year in pumpkin carving; this is the first time I've gone for pumpkin scraping in different levels of layers, without cutting all the way through anywhere. It was a trickier learning curve, but seeing the results, it's darned rewarding, and I'm going to keep at this technique.

Comments

[gmth.livejournal.com]

AWESOME.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I REALLY like this technique. I got to a point where I had to take the pumpkin into a dark room and put in the candle and do more scraping, because I didn't really believe that once I took off the skin the layers would look different, but it did! Next time it'll go faster, I bet. ^_^

[ella-bane.livejournal.com]

WOW. That's incredible! Go you. :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I wish I could do this every week! :D

[acardia17.livejournal.com]

This is amazing! Well, it's a bizarre fanart :D

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Yup, my fanart is all three-dee! Can't draw. Don't even doodle.

[dmlpacker.livejournal.com]

That's so cool. I've only carved once - when I was 13. It was pretty awful, but I did enjoy digging out the seeds :)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Roasting the seeds is one of the fun parts, too! (Though I sometimes get tired of pumpkin seeds in the fall--I let the seeds from this pumpkin go, in the name of quick clean-up. ^_^ )

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Wow! I love your pumpkins every year and this one looks awesome. :-)

(And this hot Sebastian guy kind of reminds me of Lelouch, in that pose, but he's probably not like Lelouch at all?)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

He's not! Very different character, very different feel to the series. Horror/humor. A Boy and His Butler. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ABoyAndHisX) However, they both share some seriously filthy slashfanservice. :D

[mybrokenlocket.livejournal.com]

So cool! I saw some cosplayers dressed as Kuroshitsuji characters at a convention in Lucca, Italy this Friday. It made me think of you.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

So many gorgeous Victorian outfits to choose from for cosplay on the main character alone! And I love hearing how transcontinental the show's fans are. :D

[pennswoods.livejournal.com]

That is so friggin awesome!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*looks at your icon and dies* Omigod, I think I remember that one!

[crescent-moony.livejournal.com]

SO MUCH WIN.

Please tell me you plan on making him into a pie later. (You can't tell me you don't want to eat Sebastian!pie. With whipped cream all over him... ^_~)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like Sebastian!pie to seduce me, if I were to have a say in it! Except he wouldn't let me have a say. And that's the point. :D

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

[ex-trolleys.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL! especially the details on his hand <3

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Those were fun, and now that I've done details so tiny I'll get better at it next time! :D

[o-deanna.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD! This is amazing! Oh, I adore Sebastian!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

HOW CAN YOU NOT. Ciel's sorry he didn't get a pumpkin, but I just didn't have time. (Of course, now pumpkins should be on sale...and I have more time next weekend...!)

[mawaridi.livejournal.com]

That looks fantastic :D The scarping technique is really impressive!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Also, it lasts longer than a DAY! (The ones you carve all the way through in tiny detail are collapsing on themselves within a day!)

[z3ldog.livejournal.com]

HOOOOOLLLYYYY SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAT! (insert enthusiasm)

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Ah ha ha ha! In my head, I am writing fic about the Sebastian in your icon seeing the pumpkin. :D

[wickedelf.livejournal.com]

wow, great job - that looks amazing!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Thank you! It was lots of fun, even while I sweated the details. :D

[bookshop.livejournal.com]

AMAZING.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D

[cirrus74.livejournal.com]

That is SO COOL

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I love taking my obsessions to the next level!

[joyinthedance.livejournal.com]

That is incredible. Pumpkin scraping really looks like it's the way to go! Wow.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

It was a little more effort but I think that's just the learning curve! I'm going to keep working at it. ^_^

[nebulia.livejournal.com]

WIN. SO COOL.

I should have done this. My friend and I tried to make an Autobot/decepticon (from Transformers) pumpkin but we cut the whole way through and out decepticon fell apart, alas. xD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's too bad! Do it again inna future! :

(I love that icon to pieces.)

[urae.livejournal.com]

Awesomeness! :D Great job.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Glad you like, thank you!

[anshie.livejournal.com]

What the holy fuck?! O__O
This impresses me! REALLY!

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you like! (Ooh, your icon's enchanting to watch!)

[theamazingfetus.livejournal.com]

That is awesome.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

:D :D :D

[twentyfiveraven.livejournal.com]

THIS. is so much UTTER WIN.
Sebastian's glowy pumpkin-eye is so eerily ~intense XDDD

MOAR next year?

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I was really happy with the eye! Making it look pretty is all the battle. :D

I definitely will make more! (Maybe even this month...it's such fun...!)

[naermint.livejournal.com]

That's amazing ! I want Sebastian pumpkins too ! XD

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I'll send him to your house to come menace you! ^_^

[tokugawa.livejournal.com]

Really great job on the pumpkin, :D!

It's so very Sebby

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

If Sebby agrees, I'll be all set. :D Thank you!