Pumpkin Skulls and Other Silly Things: How to carve a skull out of a pumpkin, one step at a time. : Mike Craghead : 9781087801650 : 1087801656 : 19 Sep 2019 : Realistic pumpkin carving made easy! Follow along with clear, step-by-step instructions, illustrations and photographs, learn how to make a creepy human skull out of a pear-shaped pumpkin, and display it proudly to ward off squeamish visitors. If you're interested in really going down the 3-D pumpkin-carving rabbit hole, it's a really good idea to develop your pumpkin skull-carving abilities: using a medium where the stakes are low, you're practicing a foundational skill for portraiture or caricature or monstercraft or mask-making. Because there's a skull underneath (almost) every kind of face, and that skull is going to inform all the stuff on top of it - the muscle, fat, skin, scales, whiskers, horns, warts and all. Then go beyond the skull and get some tips on how to turn any ordinary pumpkin into a realistic (or surrealistic