Day After Detail

Here’s what it looks like with no candle and the lid on.

The Jack-o’s

My Finished Product

I could have carved everything a bit deeper to make it light up better, but I’m pretty happy with this for a first-ever pumpkin carving!

Get Your Shave One

Slicing out and digging into the face to make it deeper (and thus brighter)

Preview

I would hold it up under a light above my stove to get a preview of how the light was working. This was originally where I was going to stop.

Carving In Action

I was originally going to carve outlines only, but then realized I needed to shave the skin off to get things to light up properly, so had to keep going.

Template Lines

Here’s what it looked like after I traced, then took off the template.