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Yubaba

Yubaba
This one wasn't done at Halloween at all. I did this one at Anime Weekend Atlanta as part of my "Anime Martha Stewart" panel discussing silly-ass home ec projects like pumpkin carving. This is Yubaba, the witch from Spirited Away, which I'd seen a week before heading to Atlanta. Her face had such great lines in it I knew she was meant to be a pumpkin subject. Photo courtesy Linus Lam.

Suezo

Suezo
Suezo the baby dragon, from Five Star Stories. This year's littlest pumpkin.

Monev the Gale

Monev the Gale
Third year in a row for a Trigun themed pumpkin, this one featuring Monev. I wonder if I'll do all of the Gung Ho Guns eventually.

Vincent Volaju

Vincent Volaju
Knew I had to do this one after seeing the Cowboy Bebop movie screened in New York. It's a Halloween movie, the best tune on the soundtrack is "Yo Pumpkin Head," and Vincent's a fabulous bad guy.

Alucard

Alucard
Alucard, lifted directly from the first Hellsing DVD cover. The cool half-glow shapes of his glasses were done using a Dremel to scrape half of the flesh out.

One dragon

Haku
Part one.

Two dragons

Haku
Part two.

Three dragons

Haku
Part three.

Four dragons

Haku
Part four.

Five dragons

Haku
Part five.

Six dragons

Haku
Part six.

Okay, now this is a special kind of silly-ass. I mentioned above I enjoyed the film Spirited Away, right? So, there's this dragon character, name's Haku, and I got the idea that I'd render him as a design spanning the length of my porch. (Part of it, anyhow—there's a brick column that prevents it from running the whole span.) This made way more sense when I was unemployed, but wouldn't you know it I went back to work this year. Fortunately, 10/29 was kind of a light day at the office, so I took off early and spent five hours carving this sucker. My favorite parts don't quite come through in the pics above, which are his claws; I like the curves a lot. This was the kind of project that makes me wonder exactly what am I gonna do next year to top it.

Haku the dragon

Above and below: Haku, full view. Not to bust out a cliche, but the pictures really don't do it justice.

Haku the Dragon

Porch

My porch
This is the side of my porch by my front steps.