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

[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. ^_^ )