How to Carve a Mouth into a Pumpkin

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Vincent Laporta for Expert Village, and we've already started on the eyes and now we're just going to do the nose. The nose is basic. It's just a triangle. We start off. I'm using the large one for the straighter edges because the large one is more durable. I use the smaller blade for a lot of detail, but that comes later when you get used to it and when you're also doing a lot more difficult patterns. I'm just going to keep going and start the mouth now. Now, whenever you do something like the mouth, you're going to do the teeth first and then join it with the rest of it. Go down like this here. We're going to cut this way here. Now we're going to come down. I might make a little change. I might just put the tooth in the center so it has 3 teeth as oppose to 4. I think that will balance it out better. I'll just take my pen as a guide and I'll go right about here for my tooth in the middle. As I said, start with the tooth first. Start in the corner here and work your way down. When you're going to remove a large piece, you can also meet the other one so they come out in little pieces as oppose to one big chunk. You can break these teeth off. Possibilities of damaging what you started. Just meet the other one like this here, and then you'll push out little pieces afterwards. We'll just come down here and make the pieces a little smaller. There goes the nose, which got out easy. There's the mouth. If you put the thumb on the tooth, that'll give it strength so it doesn't snap or break. Okay. "