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.

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[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. ^_^