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Title: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 27, 2020, 04:24:39 PM
This is a thread to show off your Jack o' Lanterns, and also to make your Jack o' Lantern templates available to everyone who might want to carve a pumpkin but maybe doesn't quite know what to carve just yet. Today, I created this template for The Rock, with the trademark raised eyebrow. I haven't made the pumpkin yet, but hopefully once I do I will get a chance to share that here as well.
(https://i.ibb.co/FgyP7SF/therock.png)

The part spanning the bridge of the nose is a challenge. If you embark on this pumpkin, you're gonna want to make that part wedge-shaped so it's thin at the surface like the image shows, but thicker further into the pumpkin. I think. We'll find out.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 27, 2020, 04:28:46 PM
For how terrible the template is this thread should be in complete nonsense.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 27, 2020, 04:33:22 PM
It's wonderful. I don't know why you try to hurt people so much.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Space Cowgirl on September 27, 2020, 04:39:40 PM
He is a pain vampire. Don't give him your pain!
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 27, 2020, 04:46:46 PM
I feel no pain, he can't hurt me with his silly nonsense words. I know awesome when I see it, and this pumpkin will be super-awesome. Sokarul's pumpkin will probably a relief carving of his favorite salt crystal.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 27, 2020, 05:41:31 PM
It's wonderful. I don't know why you try to hurt people so much.

Do you really think the eye section will hold up?
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 27, 2020, 06:08:41 PM
It's wonderful. I don't know why you try to hurt people so much.

Do you really think the eye section will hold up?
It will. Clearly you didn't read the instructions and aren't using your imagination in the slightest. Now the real question is, what will your pumpkin look like?
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 27, 2020, 06:10:52 PM
I dont think cutting at an angle will save you.

WTF would I carve a pumpkin?
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Wolvaccine on September 27, 2020, 06:22:31 PM
I think a pumpkin carved like The Rock would be hella cool.

You could also do a cone head pumpkin. You just need to cut the ends of a few pumpkins and glue together for the elongated shape. 8)

Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Space Cowgirl on September 27, 2020, 06:30:48 PM
I wonder if this picture of him would make a better template https://www.celebrity-facemasks.com/products/dwayne-johnson-celebrity-face-mask.html
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: GlaringEye on September 27, 2020, 07:05:28 PM
We don't carve pumpkins in here. Our traditions involve chestnuts and sweet potatoes.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Wolvaccine on September 27, 2020, 07:07:16 PM
We don't carve pumpkins in here. Our traditions involve chestnuts and sweet potatoes.

Your avatar would make a nice template for a jack-o-lantern. A giant glaring eye....
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Stash on September 28, 2020, 06:22:31 AM
I'm going to go for the Shepard Fairey with OBEY:

(https://i.etsystatic.com/15648777/r/il/61fcf9/1740249168/il_570xN.1740249168_6ahj.jpg)

Problem is here in the big city, things don't last very long hanging out on the stoop. But maybe the smashing of my Jack O'Lantern by some stranger is a part of the art itself.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 28, 2020, 06:39:04 AM
The plane is to cut out the white part right?
How is that going to work for that template?
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Stash on September 28, 2020, 06:49:36 AM
The plane is to cut out the white part right?
How is that going to work for that template?

Gonna have to take some creative license:

(https://i.imgur.com/rCoCMBT.jpg)
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Crouton on September 28, 2020, 06:50:15 AM
You don't necessarily have to cut out anything.  You could just shave the skin of the pumpkin off in some places.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 28, 2020, 07:18:51 AM
You don't necessarily have to cut out anything.  You could just shave the skin of the pumpkin off in some places.
I've seen the fancy pumpkin-carvers doing this, it looks really cool when done well
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Stash on September 28, 2020, 08:10:14 AM
Sok, you seem like one of the marauders who will come around and smash my pumpkin. Just know that I will hit back twice as hard. Your poorly rendered jack o'eggplants will be mash by the time I'm done with them.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 28, 2020, 02:13:19 PM
I’m long past pumpkin smashing age.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Crouton on September 28, 2020, 02:54:09 PM
I'm more of a Nine Inch Nails guy myself.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 28, 2020, 03:25:59 PM
I specifically said pumpkin smashing so a play on words couldn’t be made.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Space Cowgirl on September 28, 2020, 03:38:59 PM
Do not smash your pumpkin!
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 28, 2020, 04:44:32 PM
I specifically said pumpkin smashing so a play on words couldn’t be made.
It's OK. The killer in me is the killer in you!
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: sokarul on September 28, 2020, 04:59:38 PM
That’s a pun only someone born in 1979 would make.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: NotSoSkeptical on September 29, 2020, 08:29:40 AM
Despite all my rage I'm still just a rat in a cage.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: GlaringEye on September 29, 2020, 08:34:25 AM
Smash your pumpkin in the privacy of your room, perverts.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Crouton on September 29, 2020, 09:09:59 AM
These comments...

We should crucify the insincere, possibly tomorrow, more likely tonight.  Yes.  Tonight.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Stash on September 29, 2020, 01:29:11 PM
I agree, it's gotten out of hand. I mean no matter where you are I can still hear you when you dream. You may think you've traveled very far, like a star, and you are. So you all just take this thread very seriously, it's nothing to make light of...
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Jura-Glenlivet II on September 29, 2020, 02:23:09 PM

I did this one last year (or the year before!)

(https://i.imgur.com/Diq6IJx.jpg)

then made soup with its innards, never just throw away the inside.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Stash on September 29, 2020, 03:00:32 PM

I did this one last year (or the year before!)

(https://i.imgur.com/Diq6IJx.jpg)

then made soup with its innards, never just throw away the inside.

Outstanding!
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Wolvaccine on September 29, 2020, 04:18:43 PM

I did this one last year (or the year before!)

(https://i.imgur.com/Diq6IJx.jpg)

then made soup with its innards, never just throw away the inside.

Damn that's cool. Australia's Halloween is pretty dead. No one really goes all out or cares about it. When I was a kid it was a bit more of a thing but it was usually a bunch of kids who didnt even dress up bumming home owners for lollies.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: boydster on September 29, 2020, 05:04:15 PM
Holy smokes. I think we can probably arrive at a strong consensus that Jura wins that pumpkin game. That is impressive!
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Space Cowgirl on September 29, 2020, 06:45:14 PM
Cool pumpkin, Jura!

If I carved a pumpkin right now it would dissolve in the heat.
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: NotSoSkeptical on September 29, 2020, 07:20:55 PM
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/48/48/f248483c9f1809f9fc5978fc66464f89.jpg)
Title: Re: Jack o' Lanterns
Post by: Wolvaccine on September 29, 2020, 09:34:42 PM
This is probably one that almost anyone could do

(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR0Vw318iZuBjip03M5IGX_OHMcT14i9QFhWw&usqp=CAU)