How to properly carve a pumpkin

[Dexman PE PMP]

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[roadwreck]

I'm no art major, so I know those pumpkins are well beyond my abilities, but it is possible to make some pretty decent looking pumpkins even if you are a uncreative engineer. These are some of mine I've done in the past.

 

[NCcarguy]

I can barely carve a noticible face.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I started doing some google searching for ideas for this years pumpkins. There are some really good ideas out there, but hard to find "cool" ones that can be done by someone with no artistic skills...

 

[Road Guy]

I am bad, I havent even picked up pumpkins yet this year, kids are asking every day...

 

[snickerd3]

Minisnicks bday party was at a pumpkin farm, so we picked one out while we were there.

 

[Ble_PE]

We've got two pumpkins in the front yard, but i didn't carve either of them. I've got two plastic ones with a light in them that work just fine!

I'm sure once mini-ble gets a little older we'll start carving them, but for now I'm too lazy/strapped for time to consider it.

 

[Master slacker]

Mini-MS is too busy reenacting Peter in the Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin and we're too busy trying to rest.

 

[Exception Collection]

I've never bothered with them - I'm not artistic enough to worry about them, and my spouse and I don't even hand out candy - we make plans to do other things.

Even as a kid I was more of a "Candy candy candy candy" kind of kid than anything else.

Edit: Oh yeah, I was gonna link

Now THOSE are well done pumpkins.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Here are the 4 we did tonight:

I picked out the two on the outside, my daughter wanted the kitty, and my son wanted the monster. I have one more ready to be carved, but am waiting for my wife to pick out the pattern tomorrow.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

We still haven't gotten our pumpkins yet. We'll probably get them and carve them this weekend.

 

[Supe]

I did a Jack Skellington one with junior this year. Have to drum up a picture of it tonight. I don't like putting more than 20 minutes worth of work into those things.

 

[envirotex]

Here are the 4 we did tonight:

I picked out the two on the outside, my daughter wanted the kitty, and my son wanted the monster. I have one more ready to be carved, but am waiting for my wife to pick out the pattern tomorrow.

I love the monster! I may have to steal that one...

Anyway, that's what we do too. Everyone gets a pumpkin, designs a face (or whatever), and dad carves it up. He's got mad skills. I guess that's one of the perks of having an art degree.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Here is the pattern I used for the monster face. I had to cut-up the pattern and do the mouth with one piece of paper and the eyes/nose with another because the pumpkin wasn't flat enough on that side.

I got this pattern from extremepumpkins.com. It was in their free download section.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Now THOSE are well done pumpkins.

Here's the how-to (although the demo isn't as good as the above pic)...

http://www.instructables.com/id/The-Death-Star-Pumpkin/

 

[envirotex]

Thanks for the pattern Dex! I'll post the results...

 

[Guest]

I will be stopping by some farms to pick up pumpkins for carving this weekend!

JR

 

[pbrme]

bump cause we're getting close.

Here's the one I did last year: Nuclear waste pumpkin.

I screwed a piece of conduit to a base and skewered the pumpkins to stack on each other. Then I carved out the mouth, sliced the bottom off the head and stuck in on top. The arms were wire coat hangers with target bags wrapped and taped to give them some character. I spray painted these brown later, and speckled the whole mess in florescent paint to go with the black light I put in the outside light. These pictures don't show the nuclear pail I made either, I can post another picture later.

 

[Capt Worley PE]

Mighty impressive!

 

[knight1fox3]

Mighty impressive!

Agreed! Well done.