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Supplies You Need for Carving Pumpkins
How to Choose the Right Size Pumpkin for a Jack-O'-Lantern
How to Prep Your Pumpkin for Carving
How to Choose Designs for Pumpkin Carving
Carving Out a Pumpkin Lid
How to Remove Pumpkin Seeds & Pumpkin Guts
How to Draw Eyes on a Pumpkin
How to Draw a Mouth & Nose on a Pumpkin
How to Add Additional Design Details on a Pumpkin
How to Start Carving a Pumpkin
How to Ensure Enough Light Gets through Your Jack-O'-Lantern
How to Carve Weapon Holders in Your Pumpkin
Outlining Cutouts on Your Pumpkin
How to Add Weapons to Your Pumpkin
How to Light a Pumpkin
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Summary: Learn how to choose the right size pumpkin in this free pumpkin carving video.
"Hello! I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to creatively carve a pumpkin. Having a good pumpkin is important whenever you are carving in general. Whenever you want to add more creative elements, it becomes even more important. And the first thing to consider is size. If you are going to be doing any type of intricate detail work or having a lot of things going on in your pumpkin, you are going to want a bigger pumpkin. A pumpkin like this guy over here, which you can essentially pick up easily with one hand, is just going to be too small. It's going to be like doing needlepoint on there when you are trying to do your details in with your pumpkin. Another thing is that, in general, the more lumpy it will become. It's harder to get the nice round shape we've come to expect in a pumpkin. Now, this is important, but also not important at the same time. What's important is that we have a nice, curved service on some side of the pumpkin. So, see right here, we have...you can even palm it with two hands. We have a nice canvas for the pumpkin where we are going to have a lot of room. This is your canvas right here, where we are going to put all of the details. Now, look back here. It gets all really lumpy and indented. But, that's not going to be really important for us because we don't need to use the entire pumpkin. A lot of creative pumpkin designs... generally, even like the more traditional ones will still have a primary face for the pumpkin. Keep in mind though, if you are doing something where you want to be able to do something all the way around the pumpkin (which I don't advise because it makes the pumpkin very unstable) at that point, then, yeah, worry about having a perfectly round pumpkin. Otherwise, if you have a side, that's good enough."
eHow Article: How to Choose the Right Size Pumpkin for a Jack-O'-Lantern
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