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Originally Posted by frenchy
Omg what a beauty this is some carving wow!
Last year i did my very first one ever and it wasn't to bad but nothing to conpare to yours . but i would love to see more of your work . And how you did them it certainly will help me a lot to improve mine .
And Welcome to this forum
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Thanks for the complements! And I'd love to see your carving, regardless how it compares.
I've been carving since about '97 or '98, and have definitely gotten better every year. Around 2003, I started making my own patterns. At this point, the vast majority of the pumpkins I do are either my own patterns or those from pumpkin carver/pattern makers who have carved my patterns and have cool patterns of their own.
So not surprisingly the short answer is the longer you do it, the better you get! That said, there's a thriving pumpkin carving community who usually congregate around August or so at discussion board on carvingpumpkins.com. This is a TERRIFIC place to get patterns and learn in detail from others on how to do everything from getting a pattern transferred to which tools to use, to carving fake pumpkins and so forth. One of the regulars there has this forum linked on their site - hence my stopping by here when I started pining for Halloween to come already.
But, yeah, I'd love to show you more pumpkins. My most successful pattern in terms of others carving it is draco:
I've had around 15-20 others carve this (or more - this is all I've seen pictures for). I LOVE dragons, and am a big fan of Ciruelo Cabral's work. His
Draco painting is one of my favs. I also did an "eastern" dragon on the same pumpkin to go with this, so I would have an "east vs west" thing going:
