Cool Carving Designs Using Templates and Stencils - Templates are basically negative images of a design.  A template gives you the ability to easily carve mind-blowing pumpkins that will have your friends and family in complete disbelief.  Templates are pumpkin carving patterns that you create yourself, purchase from a store, or download off of the Internet.  There are a few basic materials and tools you will need when carving pumpkins from templates.

Pumpkin Portraits - Using advanced template designs will give you the ability to create some of the most amazing pumpkin carving designs that you have ever seen!  Unlike the basic template designs which create basically two colors, advanced templates give you the ability to create a third color: dark orange.  With the dark orange color you can create shadows within your design.  It is the shadows that really give you the ability to carve pumpkins that look like photographs of people.

Pumpkin Sculpting - Although “pumpkin sculpting” can also be considered the same thing as “carving pumpkins”, I believe there are some key differences between the two.  Pumpkin carvings for the most part are two-dimensional designs that can create an illusion of a three-dimensional design.  Pumpkin sculpting is the art of creating a sculpture from a pumpkin. 

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