[Dadja]

When I carve this early, you know what happened: one of my pumpkins started to rot. That's the second one this year, the first one was too far gone to save, but this one I spotted in time. Too bad, these were my two largest pumpkins...

Oh well, an easy one for practice. Didn't get a chance to take a decent picture, but I'll do that soon.

[nosferatu]

Wow! If that's not a decent picture then I don't know what is. Love how you have carved this Dadja, really love it, shading the beard really adds depth. First class!

[Raven]

Great job! I like the shaded beard as well. It is after all grey, so it makes sense for it not to be very bright.

[SuperSonic]

Love how this one turned out. Great job Dadja!!

[zombombie]

That's awesome!

[Ajax]

I look forward to your photos every year and this is great! Love the shaded beard.

[mesmark]

Love the shaded beard.

And shaded eyebrows! It really gives a vision of a nice shadow under the hat. Great job!

[ghostface]

Love it! Great work!

[purple1worm]

Love it! The shading looks really cool! Great 1st carve for 2013

[pagemaster1993]

Looks great Dadja.

[Dadja]

Thank you all!

And shaded eyebrows! It really gives a vision of a nice shadow under the hat.

Yes, I'm very happy I decided to shade the eyebrows and not the hat.

[monstermash]

Just lovely. Great shading, sorry to hear about your rotting kins, I had to throw one out too.

[Pumpken]

Excellent carve Dadja.

[Zombie Pumpkins!]

You've nailed that shading technique, the lighting looks so smooth, you must be removing such an even layer of pumpkin flesh. As the others said, perfect choices on where to shade. Giving him a grey beard and some shadow under his hat brim. Superb.

[Dadja]

As promised a better picture. Just in time as well. It's starting to rot. The bright spots are actually soft spots...