How to Carve Eyes into a Pumpkin

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Vincent Laporta for Expert Village. Now that we have a pumpkins face drawn, now we are going to use our small blade so we can cut around these eyes. Now remember don't force the blade, saw with the blade because they are thin and they can break and we are going to use the smaller blade to go around the detail to the eyes and then we can switch the larger one for the straight cuts so we can cut through quicker. So go to the drawing and remember it's up and down motion and every time you push it up and down when you go down that's when you start directing the blade. Don't try to twist it because you are only cutting a little bit at a time so the blade will go with you. Put this here, just take your time. This is what the parents should be doing cause it may be a little more difficult for the kids especially that the blades are sharp. So there, now we finished the first of the outline of the eye the circle part. Now we're going to use the thicker one to do the straight edge and I'll start at the top and just meet that point where I started right there. Then we go here. And if you feel yourself starting to go off you just pull up the blade and continue and put it back in and continue on the right line that you want to set. We have both eyes done. Now you don't push them in because the pumpkin is tapered. You push them out. You put your hand inside and you slightly start pushing the pieces out. You can use your tools to push them. Don't worry about the over hang you trim that later. Push it out. All this extra in here will be what we trim later on once we have everything done. I will be showing you that in other clips."