107 Times People Took Halloween Pumpkin Carving To A Whole New Level (New Pics)

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We Did Some Pumpkin Carving Last Night So Of Course I Had To Make A PUMPkin

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sbj 3 hours ago

I'm loving the detail of this one, baby pumpkin is adorable

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"Euphoric Frankenstein"

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Multa Nocte 3 hours ago

OK, I believe we are about to be treated to some "next level" pumpkin carving here. Bring it on!

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My Pumpkin Carving For This Year, Happy Halloween

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sbj 3 hours ago

Brilliant!

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Halloween Is Upon Us! Happy October, All. It's Actually Kind Of Remarkable What A Good Sculpture Medium Pumpkin Can Be

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Emma London 8 minutes ago

This is those "Is it really good or just AI? 🤔" moments.

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I Thought I'd Kick Off My Halloween Pumpkin Pics With This Handy Fella

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Emma London 6 minutes ago

That doesn't look like pumpkin flesh.

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First Time Going 4 Pumpkins Tall. What Do You All Think?

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sbj 3 hours ago

It's great but also scary as hell

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Another Day, Another Scream

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This Was One Of My Favorites At Last Year's Trail Of Carved Pumpkins Hosted By My Local Zoo. There Were Roughly 5000 Carved Pumpkins Along The Trail, And It Was Such A Magical Night

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Traveling Lady Railfan 16 minutes ago

It'sike sand sculpture and other medium where wonderful creations can be made but they can't last. Beauty is fleeting. Enjoy today.

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Shocked Goblin

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Traveling Lady Railfan 15 minutes ago

Someone is clearly a masterful sculptor!! Great job!!

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My Little Crawlers. I Liked The Cute Little Baby Ones I Did Too

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Settled for Infamy 56 minutes ago

Looks like Mr Ball legs from Santa Clarita Diet

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My Pumpkin Carving This Year. Happy Halloween

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Traveling Lady Railfan 13 minutes ago

Adorable!!

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Mario With Bowser Projection

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Auntriarch 3 hours ago

I particularly like these

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This Is A Crescent City House Of Flame And Shadow I Carved For My Girlfriend

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Emma London 4 minutes ago

That kind of breaks the pumpkin physics 🤔

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I Carved Pumpkin Puppers

I try to carve 1-2 pumpkins as an annual tradition. This year I carved my sister's dog Axton (left) and my dog Orvi. They both are Australian Cattle Dogs. They are carved into a 19" and 15" diameter Funkin brand foam pumpkin so we can put them out every year. Happy Halloween!

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David 3 hours ago (edited)

This is pretty sweet if you have little ones you don't want to scare. I like the scary ones but there was a time when my grandkids were little it was hard to get them to go to the bathroom by themselves because I had a wooden mask hanging on the wall in the hallway. The scary stuff would have likely scared them but they would have loved these.

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I Woke Up, Drove To The Farm, Went Home, And Started Carving. This Is Who Looked Back At Me When I Finished

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Happy Halloween! Voldemort For Today

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Auntriarch 3 hours ago

Show us the other side then

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It's Time! "Eye Of The Storm"

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Moë 19 minutes ago

Creepy!

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The Tank Is Surrounded By 2 Other Pumpkins, Sealing The Unlucky Pumpkin Inside! We Made This For A Hospital. Hopefully, The Patients Will Get Some Enjoyment From It

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Traveling Lady Railfan 15 minutes ago

Wow!!!!

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This Is The First Time I Have Ever Painted A Pumpkin

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Traveling Lady Railfan 14 minutes ago

I hope the paint seals the pumpkin....helps it last a bit longer. Frightening and amazing and excellent work!!

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#20

That's Next Level

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Chocolate llama 3 hours ago

"Is he made of house or is the house made of his flesh? He screams for he does not know the answer"

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Halloween Pumpkins That I Made

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I Decided It Would Still Look Pretty Cool If I Stuck A Couple Of Ears On It

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Frog King

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Chunky

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Halloween Pumpkin Decorating Contest

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David 4 hours ago

Clay? I'm wondering what they used for the parts that look like they extend out beyond the actual pumpkin.

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Moon Landing

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Silly-Rabbit 18 minutes ago

All I can say is the level of work is "out of this world!"

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A Ton Of Work

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This Pumpkin Will Leave You In Anticipation. I Just Finished This Carving Of Frank-N-Furter On A 9-Inch Foam Pumpkin

This was carved using various rotary bits, X-ACTO blades, and some light sandpaper. These pumpkins were from the year after Joann stopped selling Funkins and started to make their own similar style. I prefer Funkins due to their wall thickness and more natural-looking shape. These foamkins carve well, but their shape is hard to work with for portraits. Their circumference is oval-shaped, with a wider carved face on the side with the seam running right through it. I misjudged where I placed my reference photo and ended up having that seam run right through it. I think it still looks good, but the lesson is learned.

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Multa Nocte 3 hours ago

Antici -

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My First Time Trying Sculptural Pumpkin Carving

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Not A Painting, No Photoshop. This Is A Real Pumpkin Carving. Happy Halloween

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#31

My Pumpkin Is Done

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I Carved A Pumpkin Inspired By The Movie "Mars Attacks!"

I recently finished this carve of Lisa Marie’s Martian imposter girl character from Mars Attacks! This was hand-carved on a 13” foam pumpkin using X-acto knives, a variety of rotary bits, and a few pointy things.

This model of foam pumpkin is one of the “Time & Place” pumpkins from Joann from a few years back as they were transitioning away from Funkins. These particular pumpkins were honestly kind of bad to carve when I first bought them. The skin would peel off really easily, which made it difficult to get tiny details of high contrast. However, a few years of sitting in my attic seems to have done the trick. These are much better now. Who knew curing foam pumpkins was a thing?

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Carl Roberts 2 hours ago

Ack ack ack!!!

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#33

Here Is SpongeBob From One Of My Carvings

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#34

Jimmy-O-Lantern

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Settled for Infamy 53 minutes ago

My favourite 😍

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The Details Are Breathtaking

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#36

October Fridges Be Looking Like

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#37

This Pumpkin Burger That I Saw

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Auntriarch 3 hours ago

Oh yes!

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#38

Quick Pumpkin I Did Today

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Emma London 1 minute ago

On the other hand, the person didn't say that he'd carved it, only that he did it.

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My Painted Pumpkins

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Emma London 1 minute ago

Nice! Day of the Dead vibes.

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#40

Carved This Pumpkin Yesterday

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#41

Check Out These Incredible Entries From Our Children's Pumpkin Carving Competition This Past Weekend

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#42

Even The Grinch Can't Say No To Spooky Season

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Moë 13 minutes ago

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Happy Halloween

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I'm Really Proud Of This One. I Was Inspired By Audrey 2. Sad I Couldn't Find A Green One This Year, But I'm Still Really Happy With It

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Settled for Infamy 49 minutes ago

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Magpie 2 hours ago

I like the cat one. We don't really do halloween here, and I love cats.

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We Aren't Participating In Halloween This Year Due To COVID, I Present You My Pumpkins From Last Year

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Bat cat in a hat 45 minutes ago

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My Kid's Elementary School Had A Pumpkin Decorating Contest. I Was Very Impressed With The Creativity. Here Are Some Of My Favorites

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Jo Bennett 30 minutes ago

Very creative

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I Found A Meatwad Pumpkin In Universal Orlando

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Magpie 2 hours ago

The look "simple" but there is so much expression in their faces.

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Pennywise, The Tim Curry Pumpkin Made By Me

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Abstract Picasso Cut-Out On Living Pumpkin

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My Halloween Pumpkin

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"Yours, Cruelly," Elvira Pumpkin. This Portrait Of Cassandra Peterson Was Hand Carved On A Modified "Commander" Style Funkins Brand Foam Pumpkin

It’s the largest foamkin I’ve ever done. Minus the stem, it’s about 22” tall.
While the pumpkin shell itself was pretty thick for a foam pumpkin, the texture of this foam was pretty light, similar to Funkin's “Natiello” models. That means because of the foam's low density you don’t need to carve very deep to bring out the light. However, it makes it more difficult to get richer and darker shades like you would with something like a Boland model Funkin that is more dense. The foam thickness was also a little inconsistent, like thin in some spots but thicker in others. Thankfully that didn’t interfere with my design too much, but it did make it harder to get more realistic shading in places like her hands.
The whole carving took about maybe 12-16 hours over the course of a week and was carved with various rotary bits, X-ACTO knives, and other pointy things. I hope you like it!

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