Halloween - Post your Pumkin!

[barmanjay]

It's almost here

We started our pumkins a few days early because my 2 oldest kids are spending halloween with their mom

Here's what we did tonight

I decided for the first time to get fancy and use a stencil for one,.. and my 2nd one,.. I read up on how to do your own stencil, so I found a pic and did my own stencil.


From left to right

Me - Darth Vader
My 7 y.o. - warewolf
Wife - Lion
Wife - spider
My 11 y.o. - Jack from nightmare before x-mas




Close up of my Darth Vader




And a very special one that took me about 2 hours to complete

Can you guess what it is? LOL



Here's the pic I chose





Enjoy!

[01sahara]

They look Great! Good Job!

[Immortal]

nice!! Thae vader and YJ are sweet!

[Ostego]

Awesome pumpkins 

[P-Dubb]

well done, jeep one is sweet

[barmanjay]

Thought I would try my skill again to make sure it wasn't blind luck that the jeep turned out half decent

I went a bit more difficult and paid tribute to my old car - RIP

[dunl]

Jay, got a link for making your own stencils?

[MB.Muffin]

Those are sweet!!! The darth vader is well done

the jeep and car turned out way cool! ... never thought that could be done on a pumpkin LOL... good job dude.

[barmanjay]

The origional link I found isn't working now

http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/howto/pattern.html

but I'll try and find a couple others

this one is basic:

http://www.halloween-online.com/carve/halloween-pumpkin-carving-stencils2.html

I've been trying to find something,.. but can't,.. google search:

the pumpkin wizard
carvingpumpkins.com

I guess its a whole forum

I'll try to explain:

they did it with paint shop pro

I used corelpaint 12

Anyways

1: Select your picture
2: make it gray scale
3: adjust contrast, brightness
4: Posturize - 3 colours - black/gray/white (it's an image setting you can do)
5: Invert

try to make sure there are no "islands" of gray or white inside any black cut-out areas - thats why the adjusting of contrast and etc is needed,.. might have to back step and undo to adjust yoru contrast a few times to geet a good template.

white - no touchy
gray - shading, or just peeling the skin off
black - cut-out

Do it in that order

Here's another link to carving

http://www.canucarve.com/howto.php



edit:

Thx muffin,.. was fun and time consuming. worth it in  the end - uber satisfaction

[MB.Muffin]

I bet... I was uber satisfied when I drew the face on my pumpkin... so I'm sure yours was almost unbearable

[TrappersJeep]

The origional link I found isn't working now

http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/howto/pattern.html

Here's your link working...tracked it down -

http://web.archive.org/web/20080129095644/http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/howto/pattern.html

[barmanjay]

Here's your link working...tracked it down -

http://web.archive.org/web/20080129095644/http://www.carvingpumpkins.com/howto/pattern.html

you rock!

[93Zjay]

sweet jay!! i love it

[dubbleJs]

Thought I would try my skill again to make sure it wasn't blind luck that the jeep turned out half decent

I went a bit more difficult and paid tribute to my old car - RIP

Was this car in shows 2 or 3 years ago? I remember seeing one with a similar front end...


Nice pumpkins, the YJ one is ridiculous! Looks fake...

[barmanjay]

Was this car in shows 2 or 3 years ago? I remember seeing one with a similar front end...


Nice pumpkins, the YJ one is ridiculous! Looks fake...

Yes we had it at the shows a couple years ago when it was prime,..