Two pumpkins made for the Brighton branch of Dr. Sketchy‘s Hallowe’en show.
One of them features several firsts for me: typography, scrolls and flowers, all in the same design. I call the other lad Macaulay Pumpkin.
October 24, 2010
Two pumpkins made for the Brighton branch of Dr. Sketchy‘s Hallowe’en show.
One of them features several firsts for me: typography, scrolls and flowers, all in the same design. I call the other lad Macaulay Pumpkin.
October 24th, 2010 at 7:06 pm
Jesus H. Christ on a tandem bike with Obama!
October 25th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
The expression on Macauley’s face is fantastic! Gave me a giggle. The fingers kinda blew my mind – how did you carve such realistic detail out of pumpkin?
October 25th, 2010 at 5:22 pm
Thanks Melanie!
The fingers are realistic because they’re my hands
I drew around my hands (though admittedly the claws are not mine) and then cut straight into the pumpkin all around the line. I then sank diagonal cuts in from the outside to meet the outline, so that I’d isolated the hands’ shapes. From there it’s pretty easy: removing the 90 degree corners by sliding a diagonal cut down them, leaving the shapes fatter at the knuckles, sinking the nails lower than their beds, and so on. Time-consuming, but not difficult.
October 26th, 2010 at 10:54 am
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