Tutorial: Jack-O-Lantern

It is the weekend before Halloween and I felt a little festive so I decided to carve a jack-o-lantern. Here is how it went:

Went the local pumpkin patch.

Picked out an ugly little bugger with a lot of character.

Pulled out my woodcut tools and some inspiration.

Sketched it out with a marker. I like to use the contours to shape the features
(Toxic Avenger was on TV).

Cleaned out the guts.

Start carving I used a fillet knife that I could make smaller details with and took my time with it.

The green pumpkins are a bit thicker than the orange ones, so I didn’t bother using the wood cut tools to much, but I gave the mouth a little dimension.

Than I lit it and hope that it doesn’t catch on fire later.