Hard KPop Demon Hunters Trio Pumpkin Carving

From pumpkin to porch

1. 1

   Prep the pumpkin

   Pick a large, smooth-faced pumpkin with room for three side-by-side busts. Cut the lid or a bottom opening and scrape the inner wall down to about an inch where you will carve. A thinner wall makes the fine work later much easier.

2. 2

   Transfer the trio

   Print the three busts at size and tape the sheet to the pumpkin. Poke the outlines through with a pin tool, marking the lower roots and the top hair bridges clearly. These bridges are structural, so mark them wider than they look in the sketch.

3. 3

   Open the background

   Cut away the background sections around the figures first, working in small pieces rather than one big slab. Leave every marked bridge intact as you go. Check after each removal that the busts still feel firm.

4. 4

   Cut the eye openings

   With the frame established, open the separate eye holes in each bust with a fine saw. Go slowly, the surrounding rind is now doing all the supporting work. Widen from inside if a cut feels tight rather than forcing the blade.

5. 5

   Score the hair texture

   Add the fine hair lines last as shallow engraving, removing only the skin so light glows dimly through the strands. A linoleum cutter or V-gouge works well. Follow the flow of each hairstyle outward from the face.

6. 6

   Light and photograph

   Set a cool white LED puck inside so the open background blazes and the engraved hair reads as soft lines. Shoot at dusk from straight on so all three faces stay in frame.

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