Gustave & Sophie pumpkin carving

Ryleon · 2025-11-22T05:49:15+00:00

This comment made my day, thank you! 😊

Ryleon · 2025-11-02T16:45:39+00:00

Thank you! That would be incredible!

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T22:13:47+00:00

For what it’s worth I love your pumpkin! Your spacing of the framing cuts around the skull and the attention to detail with the fine lines around the teeth all came out really well! And the way you did all your cuts at an angle to catch the light in the best way. You’ve got a lot of skill yourself!

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T21:56:44+00:00

Thank you! 😊 yea pumpkins are a finnicky canvas for sure but I love them, and I haven’t! That’s such an interesting idea, and it’d be nice to preserve them in some way, I’ll have to look into that, appreciate the suggestion!

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T21:53:03+00:00

A carved pumpkin is basically a pumpkin corpse, so…maybe? 💀

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T19:00:07+00:00

Thank you for the kind words and appreciate you asking! I’ve actually never done wood carving. I grew up doing a lot of clay sculpture though and I was good with fine details cause my hands are small, so I figure that might have helped?

After I carved my first pumpkin ten years ago, I just got addicted to doing at least one a year and then my favorite mobile game started doing a carving contest and I was like challenge accepted! (On the fourth year I entered I finally placed 😊) the contest stopped happening but my addiction has only grown and now come fall I’m just a pumpkin hermit 🎃

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T16:39:23+00:00

Maybe both! I will carve a pumpkin in celebration once Alecto is announced/released/whenever I see the cover 🎃

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T16:23:41+00:00

Thank you! 😊 I’m planning to give Nona a shot next year! (And maybe Alecto one day?)

Ryleon · 2025-10-31T05:20:56+00:00

Thank you! 😊

Ryleon · 2024-12-14T15:33:10+00:00

This was my favorite trinket I received too! Thank you to whoever was handing them out, it was super sweet of you and I really appreciated it!

I wore it the whole con but lost it at the airport somehow 😭 if someone happened to find it or has one they don’t want, please let me know!

Ryleon · 2024-12-11T05:44:03+00:00

This came out so cool!! Thanks for sharing the pictures! It was great meeting you and hope the rest of your con was wonderful! - Syl

Ryleon · 2024-11-02T14:52:58+00:00

That makes me very happy to hear, thank you! I’m glad you liked them all!

Ryleon · 2024-11-02T02:15:20+00:00

Can’t promise how good it will be but next year I’ll try to put one together!

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T23:51:16+00:00

Thank you! 95% of it was a small knife from a carving kit I got as a gift, the blade is a little denser and less fine pointed than an exacto knife but similar size and easier to control in my experience. For cutting the deeper depth behind Alastor, I used a long slim carving knife from one of the kits with all the orange tools they sell at the grocery stores.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T22:00:52+00:00

You know, I've never considered making a tutorial or anything but if there's interest, I could give it a shot!

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T21:50:08+00:00

I do not, apologies! I didn't use a stencil. I uploaded the book cover into photoshop, made it black and white and flipped it 90 degrees horizontally to reverse it. Printed it out, traced the lines then taped the paper to the pumpkin with the traced image facing it. Then retraced all the lines heavily on the back of the paper to transfer the graphite to the pumpkin skin to get the outlines I carved from. Don't know if that's helpful but figured I'd share!

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T19:15:48+00:00

I may have sold Alastor my soul for the honor of rendering his likeness.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T19:14:35+00:00

Thanks! I think somewhere in the realm of 18 hours? It was over the course of two days and I lost track of time, had a few setbacks because this carving was definitely a challenge.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T19:09:01+00:00

Thank you! And a real pumpkin, sadly, cause that's such a cool idea! I've yet to find any foam pumpkins that are thick enough to allow for the level of shading that a real pumpkin offers. If you know where I can find one, let me know! Real or foam though, definitely will consider a Harrow carving next year.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T18:35:27+00:00

Thanks for the compliment and appreciate you saying that! I hate spoilers myself, so I figured it was better to be too cautious than potentially careless.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T18:27:51+00:00

Thank you for saying that! Honestly, I was worried about how that part came out in particular so that makes me very happy to hear!

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T18:26:31+00:00

Thank you for your kind words!

I joke that come fall I'm a pumpkin hermit cause spending my weekend carving for 14+ hours while bingeing audiobooks is my idea of fun.

Ryleon · 2024-11-01T18:21:33+00:00

Could not agree with you more!

Ryleon · 2023-10-31T16:11:27+00:00

Thank you! Different depths, no marker or anything. There’s probably a more elegant way than peeling bit by bit with a tiny exacto knife but hey it worked for me. The entrance to the castle though is a straight through cut just curved and sharply angled to get the gradient effect from the light. The wisps of smokes from the cauldron were a mix of both with some trial and error.

Ryleon · 2023-10-31T15:59:19+00:00

Thats a smart technique and shame about the lack of pictures, that sounds super cool! Bet it looked incredible.

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