Joey's 2012 Jack-o-Lantern Thread! [Updated: Year End!]
Posted: 02 Oct 2012 06:29 am
Heeeeey happy October everyone! I've been on a bit of an October high all day. I want to carve all the things, but I am busy with classes and crap. Arg.
So I looked back and realized I never posted any of the Halloween pumpkins from last year! What the heck. You get them now. Note: Sorry for all the poopy watermarks, but I'm sick of these things getting loose on the internet without ever linking back to the source. But the larger versions on DA are poopy watermark free: http://joh-wee.deviantart.com/
The first two were done for the haunted house put on by the anime club for my school. They ended up getting stolen after the first night though, along with my two battery lights. Still kinda super annoyed about that. Anime club has to buy their own lights next year :P
Both stencils are great ones from Zombie Pumpkins.
My theme for my own Halloween carving marathon was Harry Potter, since I had gone to Leakycon the previous summer and was all Harry Potter crazy at the time. Started with Harry, Voldemort, and Dumbledore:
Harry and Dumbledore were from Zombie Pumpkins again, Voldemort from Jammin Pumpkins.
Then I went nuts on a huge ass pumpkin that weighed like 50 lbs and took a billion hours to carve. But it was totally worth it, I consider this one of my masterpieces:
My own pattern, and also my 100th pumpkin carved in the last 10 years.
And then I finished up some more characters with Snape and Sirius:
Snape from Jammin Pumpkins, Sirius from Zombie Pumpkins.
That was it for last year. I carved a couple watermelons over the summer too:
One of my favorite random pokemon.
Pinkie Pie breaking the fourth wall!
Psyduck.
And a kinda redux version of a really old watermelon I carved my first year. Only this time I carved Pikachu-coloured Pichu and Spiky-eared Pichu, as opposed to the Pichu Brothers. A good excuse to carve more adorable Pichu.
I had two more watermelon carves planned but I ran out of time. Before I knew it, the pumpkins had emerged!
My traditional late International Talk Like a Pirate Day carve. Jack Sparrow, since I'm running out of good pirate patterns to carve. The Zombie Pumpkins version of the pattern.
And finally we catch up to yesterday, where I carved the Charizard that has been blowing up my DA page all day. It actually made the front page, which has always been a milestone goal of mine. It's been up a little less than 24 hours and it's already my 5th most popular pumpkin. So yeah, it's had me on a bit of a natural high all day :D
So yup, those be the pumpkins so far! I've got more pokemon planned for next weekend, plus a bunch of other random nerdy things I want to carve, and two ideas for Halloween themes this year. I might actually do both since they're relatively small and Halloween is on a freaking Wednesday this year, so I can carve them on the sandwiching weekends.
Other fun things I have planned is streaming video of me carving on Livestream. I had a show yesterday for Charizard, but only three people showed up so it was kind of lonely. But it was also filled with shenanigans and profanity when I screwed up and broke things! I can post a link here next time I stream so you guys can watch if you want!
Also feel free to bother me if I forget to post Halloween pictures like last year xD
So I looked back and realized I never posted any of the Halloween pumpkins from last year! What the heck. You get them now. Note: Sorry for all the poopy watermarks, but I'm sick of these things getting loose on the internet without ever linking back to the source. But the larger versions on DA are poopy watermark free: http://joh-wee.deviantart.com/
The first two were done for the haunted house put on by the anime club for my school. They ended up getting stolen after the first night though, along with my two battery lights. Still kinda super annoyed about that. Anime club has to buy their own lights next year :P
Both stencils are great ones from Zombie Pumpkins.
My theme for my own Halloween carving marathon was Harry Potter, since I had gone to Leakycon the previous summer and was all Harry Potter crazy at the time. Started with Harry, Voldemort, and Dumbledore:
Harry and Dumbledore were from Zombie Pumpkins again, Voldemort from Jammin Pumpkins.
Then I went nuts on a huge ass pumpkin that weighed like 50 lbs and took a billion hours to carve. But it was totally worth it, I consider this one of my masterpieces:
My own pattern, and also my 100th pumpkin carved in the last 10 years.
And then I finished up some more characters with Snape and Sirius:
Snape from Jammin Pumpkins, Sirius from Zombie Pumpkins.
That was it for last year. I carved a couple watermelons over the summer too:
One of my favorite random pokemon.
Pinkie Pie breaking the fourth wall!
Psyduck.
And a kinda redux version of a really old watermelon I carved my first year. Only this time I carved Pikachu-coloured Pichu and Spiky-eared Pichu, as opposed to the Pichu Brothers. A good excuse to carve more adorable Pichu.
I had two more watermelon carves planned but I ran out of time. Before I knew it, the pumpkins had emerged!
My traditional late International Talk Like a Pirate Day carve. Jack Sparrow, since I'm running out of good pirate patterns to carve. The Zombie Pumpkins version of the pattern.
And finally we catch up to yesterday, where I carved the Charizard that has been blowing up my DA page all day. It actually made the front page, which has always been a milestone goal of mine. It's been up a little less than 24 hours and it's already my 5th most popular pumpkin. So yeah, it's had me on a bit of a natural high all day :D
So yup, those be the pumpkins so far! I've got more pokemon planned for next weekend, plus a bunch of other random nerdy things I want to carve, and two ideas for Halloween themes this year. I might actually do both since they're relatively small and Halloween is on a freaking Wednesday this year, so I can carve them on the sandwiching weekends.
Other fun things I have planned is streaming video of me carving on Livestream. I had a show yesterday for Charizard, but only three people showed up so it was kind of lonely. But it was also filled with shenanigans and profanity when I screwed up and broke things! I can post a link here next time I stream so you guys can watch if you want!
Also feel free to bother me if I forget to post Halloween pictures like last year xD