How to Carve Detail into Your Pumpkin

Video Transcript

"What I do now is I look and I see how the edge is. Now, the edge is a little tapered. I'm going to take my large tool, and what I do is I start running it on the edge like this here up and down. I start to clean up the pumpkin's edge so it get a cleaner edge. don't worry about those things that are hanging inside. Those can all come out afterwards. Clean up your edges here to make them look nice and clean. Don't dig too far into the corners where the pumpkin is attached because you still stand the chance of breaking it. I'm just going to do it easy when I get to those corners. Just remove anything that takes away from the edge of your image. You want those corners like right here to look nice and crisp. You don't want them to be too fat. I like to take a paper towel like this here and do it very lightly. This takes away all the little stuff and gives you a better view of what you want to look at. A clean up. As you can see here, see how it's going to tapered in. What you want to do is you want to put the blade in straight and then cut along the edge that you made. You'll see the difference when I take off this piece. This is all the fine-tuning and the clean up of what I mean. Just remember, slow down when you get to that little corner. See how the edge looks better now. It's not tapered like this one here. It's a much smoother line going in. I'll be doing that on this side too. Stick it into the pulp. You don't have to cut the skin. Use the skin as a guide. Just push that right out. Now it's starting to take shape. If you're going to cut along the ghost, like I said, be very careful because he's the weak point. He can break very easily."