Pumpkin Pageantry

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Here is my entry!

*Edit* I didn’t have any paint so I colored the pumpkin’s lips with some lipstick.

 

[Asarena]

Here's mine! I made a paper pumpkin and decorated it like a little haunted house~

Spoiler: References

I referenced this video a bit to make the main body of the pumpkin:

 

[corlee1289]

Question for those using a real pumpkin: It is hard to carve a pumpkin? I have never carved and made a Jack o lantern before and was wondering how hard it is to cut. Do I need to buy the tool kits I see for sale or are they unnecessary?

I’ve cut up pumpkins before for eating, which is not the same thing since I cut into wedges with a cleaver, but I assume I can’t cleaver my way through it I wanna make a design with a pumpkin.

Any advice and tips would be appreciated!

 

[Aquilla]

Question for those using a real pumpkin: It is hard to carve a pumpkin? I have never carved and made a Jack o lantern before and was wondering how hard it is to cut. Do I need to buy the tool kits I see for sale or are they unnecessary?

I’ve cut up pumpkins before for eating, which is not the same thing since I cut into wedges with a cleaver, but I assume I can’t cleaver my way through it I wanna make a design with a pumpkin.

Any advice and tips would be appreciated!

I have carved pumpkins a few times and have to say I don't think it is very easy. For one, the surface is curved which makes some designs look a bit wonky so take that into consideration (just like egg designing, but on a large scale). Because of the curve the knife tends to slip around a fair amount too (plus the waxy and kinda slippery surface doesn't help with that). I found it hard to make very detailed carvings on my pumpkins, often slipped and accidentally cut too far into an area etc.

That's just my personal experience tho, it also depends on the kind of pumpkin used and general fine motor skills. It also requires patience! (A lot of it if you make something more elaborate).

You need really sharp tools I'd say, but be careful not to cut yourself! For hollowing out the pumpkin I just use a good old spoon and elbow grease. Don't leave too much pumpkin gunk in there to prevent it from moulding super fast. Stencils help too, or drawing on the design with a sharpie first! That's all I got for now :]

 

[Alolan_Apples]

My pumpkin is complete.

Spoiler: Back View

 

[roseflower]

Here's my decorated pumpkin friend!

 

[You got mail!]

I present to you all. Buncula!

 

[Iris_T]

Thanks to my arts and crafts abilities you can meet:

Angel-kawaii-pumpkin-chan!!

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Spoiler: Spooky pumpkin-chan 'real self' uwu

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[-Blue-]

The Pumpkin Curse
Oh not it looks like you met a terrible fate as sickly pumpkin. It's ok, it only lasts until midnight after Halloween.

I haven't carved a pumpkin in a long time, so it was fun to do it again. And I have two big pumpkins that I grew so I knew just what to use them for! I always see people doing these and it was fun to try, but oh god is that stuff really slimy and messy. It was hard to work with because it was so slick and slimy. Did I mention how slimy it is? Proof is in entry because it's at an odd angle and I did not want to risk getting my card all slimed up. And it doesn't show off the mouth/teeth that well.

I forgot how gross this stuff is lol. So stringy and snotty ugh. Love the designs so far!

 

[Sheando]

All right, friends, be kind to my pumpkin! I don’t have a lot of craft supplies on hand, so behold: this is a pumpkin that goes glamping. This pumpkin is bedazzled. This pumpkin could upstage a disco (a disco for kindergarteners, maybe).

Please give me credit this took so many fine motor skills

 

[KittenNoir]

My spooky floral pumpkin.

Spoiler: Pumpkin Images

 

[DaCoSim]

This was an extremely long process, ha ha I kind of feel like you digital guys with y'all's layers at this point. Just when I would think I would be finished, I would add something else.

I’m not quite sure how you want me to enter this because it is definitely at least two pictures because it is the pumpkin in all her rounded entirety.

I present Jaque’o’leen

Spoiler: Y’ll ready for this process (and proof)

How I started with her

She needs more

Thought I was done

But decided she needed glitter
And some bling

The spiders and bats wanted bling too

And lastly, I made her a bow to go on top of her headdress

 

[.: Meri :.]

I carved a pumpkin to look like the Skeleton Hood!

Spoiler: references

 

[oak]

It's a slice of pumpkin pie on a pumpkin. That's it. You may recognize it as the pumpkin pie collectable, a favourite of mine.

Spoiler

 

[Snowesque]

Just a drippy fellow.

Spoiler

 

[Snowifer]

A little mummy friend

 

[Firesquids]

Father of frights, Lord of the Boos, ruler of the Paranormal Dimension. I humbly present his majesty, King Boo!

Spoiler: before

 

[Suguri]

I have an idea, but IDK if it's going to get accepted:

Can I do a pumpkin with Wisp inside? Like, I want part of his head to be peeking out. But then I'm going to try and make the pumpkin the focal point by putting a face or some other decoration on it. Will it work?

 

[Mistreil]

I have an idea, but IDK if it's going to get accepted:

Can I do a pumpkin with Wisp inside? Like, I want part of his head to be peeking out. But then I'm going to try and make the pumpkin the focal point by putting a face or some other decoration on it. Will it work?

Yes - that's fine! I would count things inside the pumpkin as part of the pumpkin's decoration itself.

 

[JellyLu]

I went with a flame face pumpkin His name is Zuko.

Spoiler: Bonus video

Uploaded via imgur so sorry if you can't see it. I tried :")

https://imgur.com/a/0JquGD5

I hope it's ok to put two pictures as the entry. I'd like the dark picture to be the main one, but the light picture shows the name tag and the fact it's a real pumpkin better.