| Halloween Pumpkin 2009 |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|01:21 pm] |
I didn't carve my Halloween pumpkin this year until the 31st!
This is the original screencap that I chose:
Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji
And this is how the pumpkin came out (unretouched photo!):
This is what I did with it to make the screencap a template, playing with the saturation and brightness in Photoshop:
Here's the finished pumpkin in normal light, without being lit from within:
And, again, the finished product.
I leveled up this year in pumpkin carving; this is the first time I've gone for pumpkin scraping in different levels of layers, without cutting all the way through anywhere. It was a trickier learning curve, but seeing the results, it's darned rewarding, and I'm going to keep at this technique. |
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Ooohhh, that's gorgeous! Beautiful work, especially on the contract symbol. Very nice detail! I scraped out one this year but I didn't have access to my friend's clay and wood carving tools (scrapers, gougers, etc.) so it's not as detailed as I'd have liked. Here's my offering (Ulquiorra from Bleach):   Here's the original art: http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/234/15/I'd have liked to have done shading where the shadows are but since my tools were only a linoleum knife, a screwdriver, a paring knife and a grapefruit spoon, that wasn't going to be. I don't think I could have done anything as ambitious as yours -- correct tools or no. I'd have punched right through that detail work. Again, it's lovely and looks exactly like what it's supposed to be. Woot for Sebastian-lanterns! ;)
PS HOW did you get that great pic of your lit up pumpkin? I couldn't get anything that good with my camera. (I had to adjust the color and contrast on the photo I did get.) I'd love to know if there's a trick.
I don't think I really had tricks on the photo! When I made an icon of it I did adjust the angle and brightness and such, but that photo above is the raw. I had a dark room that I could close off from external light sources (the bathroom! Only rooms in my place without windows are the bathrooms), and I used a relatively old digital camera (probably 7 years old) on a tripod, turned off the flash, used a timer setting so I didn't get jiggling. Used several candles inside so the light was good and strong; the photos always look brighter than the real thing, too, I dunno why that is, but it's a good thing. I always take a few pictures from different distances and heights and slightly different angles and then compare them to see what looks best. No other tricks, honest!
Oh, s**t, that's BEAUTIFUL! And I love how you used the curvature of the pumpkin to good effect with the art you chose! (And don't say that about the detail work; you had lots of detail on this! The eyes are always so dang tricky, aren't they?)
So glad you like, thank you! | |
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