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Kamose — Dread Cthulhu Pumpkin
Published: 2013-10-27 21:36:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 3676; Favourites: 37; Downloads: 8
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
(In his house at R'lyeh dead C'thulhu waits dreaming.)
This year, I carved Cthulhu from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. I used my own pattern. It took seven hours to prepare and carve the pumpkin.
source image: Cthulhu by AlMaNeGrA (used with permission)
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On Cheezburger/Memebase , I just received the highest compliment that you can get: "I'm beginning to suspect that a significant percent of these cool pumpkin carvings I've seen on internet are 'shopped. Not that I don't think they're possible, but that just doesn't look real."
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Beautifully rendered! Looking to be among the first eaten on the Great Day???
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Thanks! It's sitting on my porch, decaying a little every day.
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The elder pumpkin has come! 
kind of pumpkins take?
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This was probably my most time-consuming carve yet. (Getting the cut-out pieces out of the forehead without collapsing the design was a challenge. I also had to rinse it several times while scoring just to see what I was doing.)
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Nerve wracking right? After about 2-3 hours in to a project you start to think: "I can't screw this up now!" Anyway,
I just looked at your other pumpkins and they are amazing. Well done!
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It is! It's interesting to watch my thought process as I go through the process of carving. When I make the pattern, I am very confident. When I see the transferred lines on the pumpkin, I'm convinced the whole thing is going to be an irredeemable mess. This continues as I score the flesh off of the more complex parts. I am never sure that it looks good until it's done and I light it up.
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Thanks! I really enjoyed carving it. It didn't turn out quite as well as I'd hoped -- I had to simplify the pattern to prevent the whole forehead from collapsing -- but I am reasonably satisfied with it.
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Most excellent indeed! I'm always amazed by this kind of work.
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