Pumpkin Skulls and Other Silly Things: How to carve a skull out of a pumpkin one step at a time.

Realistic pumpkin carving made easy! Follow along with clear step-by-step instructions illustrations and photographs learn how to make a creepy human skull out of a pear-shaped pumpkin and display it proudly to ward off squeamish visitors. If youre interested in really going down the 3-D pumpkin-carving rabbit hole its a really good idea to develop your pumpkin skull-carving abilities: using a medium where the stakes are low youre practicing a foundational skill for portraiture or caricature or monstercraft or mask-making. Because theres a skull underneath (almost) every kind of face and that skull is going to inform all the stuff on top of it - the muscle fat skin scales whiskers horns warts and all. Then go beyond the skull and get some tips on how to turn any ordinary pumpkin into a realistic (or surrealistic) masterpiece whether youre trying to win a pumpkin-carving contest or just bringing some gruesome joke to life on your front porch. If you can get your hands on the right tools and a great pumpkin this book just might help you execute an idea thats sufficiently weird to justify squandering your valuable time on something thats destined to become mush. But first it just might make someone smile. Or vomit. And that dear reader is a truly noble cause.