any pumpkin/halloween pictures??

[surfn]

here was my pumpkin :)

 

[maroonytunes]

here's , mine , jk, awesome pumpkin.

 

[surfn]

i just printed a picture off of the printer, and took a sharpie and outlined it on the pumpkin. i used a hobby exacto knife for the rest. its mostly just skinned though. you cant get the detail very well if you cut all the way through b/c the image wont hold its shape, or look right. so i just cut a couple of small holes to let more light through

 

[surfn]

So do you just cut it out deeper to make the color lighter or darker. That's cool how he is like different shades of orange.

yup, basically. i experimented on a different pumpkin first. if you just skin the outer tough skin, no light really will show through as the pumpkin is still like an inch thick (unless you got a really bright light in there).

that was by far the hardest part. to keep digging down, but not break through into the inside. i tried a number of tools to accomplish this.

by far the best method, was i went to lowes and bought a blade that would be normally used for a saw of some sort (like a jig saw blade or something else that is long). i bent one side into an "L", and used that to kinda skin/scoop out deeper pulp out of the soft skin of the pumpkin.

i tried a carrot pealer, and couldn't achieve the angle i wanted. i'm sure there are other kinds of pealers but i didnt have the patience to find the right one. i think they even make special tools now for work like that on pumpkins.

 

[Azurel]

Cool pumkin Surf....