If y'all remember correctly from last year, I posted pictures of my Halloween pumpkin carvings. Even though we're more than 2 months out, My creative juices have started to flow. I have already started drawing out several patterns for this year. Although actual pumpkins are difficult (or impossible) to find, I have done a bunch of mock-ups which will give a good idea of what the finished piece will look like. Most of these were images I found on the internet and redrew to work as a jack-o-lantern. Click the pix for full sized bigness.
1. A standing Executioner, This one I drew myself.
2. Grim Reaper.
3. A zombie named Lord Raptor from the fighting game, Darkstalkers
4. The THING!
1. Pennywise the clown, from Steven King's "It."
2. Straight from the 1984 video game of the same name, SINISTAR!! RUN, COWARD!!
3 & 4 Chernabog the Demon from Disney's Fantasia
I have a few more original designs that I'm hanging onto that I plan on entering in the Pumpkin Masters contest. I'll share those after I send off the entry. And for those of you who think these cannot be carved into a pumpkin, I highly reccomend the purchase of the Pumpkin Masters tool kit, follow their instructions, and the results are quite impressive.
If anyone wants these patterns, send me an email or PM. They were drawn in Adobe Illustrator 9.0, I can send them that way, PDF or JPG. I'll never have time to carve all of the ideas I have, so feel free to take what I have and send pictures of the results!