2004 IW Pumpkins

puetzk · **Joined:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 4

No, I'm not the same guy who did the pumpkins last year. But I will admit to being inspired.
http://zoo.nightstar.net/viewtopic.php?t=4456&highlight=pumpkins&sid=6f6ebbff67ea7ee12cf28ed4d83954bd
Since I can't draw to save my life, they're both based on Willis prints...

Many faces of Sal:
http://www.itswalky.com/auctions/manyfaces.jpg

Full Size: http://puetzk.org/art/manyfaces-pumpkin.jpg

Time together:
http://www.itswalky.com/auctions/timetogether.jpg

Full Size: http://puetzk.org/art/timetogether-pumpkin.jpg

The PSL nearly did me in when I got to that untucked shirt... so I guess I'd better thank willis for
http://packy.dardan.com/walky/walky_adult/acz(NSFW), which fixed that in a hurry :-)

sun tzu · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:57 pm

In the immortal words of Maritza Campos:
Coooooool

Gerald · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:57 pm

You sir are HARDCORE.

Nick101 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:58 pm

That's VERY impressive!!!

Escushion · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:59 pm

Gerald wrote:

You sir are HARDCORE.

Seconded.

Those are amazing. I suck at carving simple jack-o-lanterns, let alone beautiful works of art like that.

vermeil · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:02 pm

Just lovely.

puetzk · **Joined:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 4

If only I hadn't been too slow to actually get a Time Together print before it sold out, maybe none of this would have had to happen. Maybe I could have just framed it and moved on with my life. But at least now I have the exclusive, one and only, limited edition, Time Together pumpkin to console me!

Kristy · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:10 pm

Those are SO awesome!! XD

gyoza · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 2:23 pm

puetzk wrote:

If only I hadn't been too slow to actually get a Time Together print before it sold out, maybe none of this would have had to happen. Maybe I could have just framed it and moved on with my life. But at least now I have the exclusive, one and only, limited edition, Time Together pumpkin to console me!

Fine, rub it in. I missed out on Time Together and don't have hardcore pumpkin carving skills like you do.

Seriously. Those are farking impressive.

Darth Shrike · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 3:30 pm

wOw? Just wOw

Cholisose · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:24 pm

From this day forth, you are now the Walkerton Pumpkin God. Those are astounding!! Where'd you learn to carve such lawsome pumpkins? Eighteen kudos points for puetz!

WingsOver · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 5:42 pm

Steely-eyed, with blade in hand
The master approached the fruit
Skillfully round the gourd he ran
the knife - and the end-result was cute!

Whoa, those are awesome. Don't put them out on Halloween! Deep-freeze them, for posterity and future generations of IW-fans!

DarthBaboon · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 6:55 pm

Walky-o-lantern power!

Truely Lawesome.

Paver · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:12 pm

Thems are some seriously good punkins!

Yellow 77 · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:22 pm

cool pumpkins! i had fun with last year's, but i just got sent to a job 300 miles away from home. i've been too busy to look for pumpkin sales in tampa yet and all my secret carving tools are disassembled or out in the field. hmm, maybe there's still time for something simple...

GrassyNoel · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:45 pm

puetzk wrote:

No, I'm not the same guy who did the pumpkins last year. But I will admit to being inspired.

Way too cool! Congrats!

Guest · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 9:55 pm

heh. Secret carving tools indeed. All the detail work on these was done with yer basic $4 set of saws from Target. Humbug.

gwalla · **Posted:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 10:39 pm

Whoa.

Mcfarlane Salsa · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 6:19 am

I don't know what's scarier, these or the Naked Linda pic which I unwittingly clicked on.

Thank God for 56k.

Archer · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 7:28 am

Wow. That's some impressive work, there.

starline · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:31 pm

Sweet.

Starline

Vincent Avatar · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:13 pm

Hey, those are awesome! Awesome in ways that are not usually thought of!

Crazie Sunshine · **Joined:** Sun Nov 09, 2003 10:22 pm **Posts:** 963

Holy Crap!

Ford Dent · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 1:50 pm

WingsOver wrote:

Steely-eyed, with blade in hand
The master approached the fruit
Skillfully round the gourd he ran
the knife - and the end-result was cute!

Whoa, those are awesome. Don't put them out on Halloween! Deep-freeze them, for posterity and future generations of IW-fans!

Wow, kickass pumpkins and a bit of poetry too!

TheNovak · **Posted:** Sun Oct 31, 2004 5:19 pm

Much awesomeness

How do you do those? Do you make some kind of template from the prints, or is it just free-hand knifin'?

puetzk · **Joined:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 4

TheNovak wrote:

Much awesomeness

How do you do those? Do you make some kind of template from the prints, or is it just free-hand knifin'?

I made a template from the prints. Doing it freehand would be... damn, I dunno. Pretty near impossible, but if I say it can't be done someone will do one freehand just to spite me.

The templates are actually up there too, since I let the IRC crowd drool on them while waiting for my camera to return so I could get real pictures. Feel free to carve away if you want. The sal one isn't all that hard to do; the walky&joyce one will drive you batty :-)

http://puetzk.org/tmp/manyfaces-template.png
http://puetzk.org/tmp/timetogether-template.png

I made them in gimp with the following steps:
darken the original quite a bit (so that when I'm stencilling I'll have the feeling of working against black)
add a new solid black layer, and hide it (this is so I can flip it betwen looking at the stencil on the drawing by showing or hiding this layer)
add a layer of orange candle-y color, with a transparent mask
pick the mask for the orange layer as my target, and take a brush to adjust it's opacity. Tweak until I'm happy with it.

Mostly I try to follow edges, but it's important to realize that you can use a black edge just as well as a lit one (Sal's ears, Joyce's left leg, etc). This lets you leave enough pumpkin in place that the whole thing doesn't just disintegrate :-)

I often end up doing a sort of reverse color image, where the shadows are the parts that end up being cut out and lit. That seems to work well in general for picking a width of the cut that looks natural.

As far as actually carving goes, there's only two real tricks to it. One is to punch a starting hole through everywhere you'll be sawing out before you cut anything away - ie, while the pumpkin is still strong enough that you don't break anything pushing through. The other trick is that on some of the detail work isn't actually sawed all the way through - if you use a sharp knife you can just cut the skin away, and the pulpy stuff behind it is pretty translucent. It can be a neat effect on it's own (ie, Sal's gloves are a darker than her arms), and it also lets you put in details while leaving enough pumpkin intact that the thing doesn't just disintegrate (I did Daniel's leash and Joyce's hand holding it this way for that reason).

puetzk · **Joined:** Sat Oct 30, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 4

hmm, noticing that I mentioned it disintegrating several times in the above. So I guess I shall repeat once more that that's the real trick. When you draw the template, leave enough behind! you can make almost an unlimited number of detailed cuts as long as you have something left to make them into :-)

DaniHanaHone · **Posted:** Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:06 pm

Neato!

I have a friend on deviantart.com that loves to carve fruit. She mostly carves out pokemon. ^^;

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