My "Michael" Pumpkin

After reading about the Dremel pumpkin set, I figured I could make do with my "regular" Dremel and a complex pattern. I manipulated a photo of Michael until it was narrowed down to three colors: dark (no pumpkin carved), medium (half depth of pumpkin carved), and light (no pumpkin left). The tricky part was making sure the pattern was physically possible (no floating dark areas in the middle of light areas, etc). It got really trick carving on narrow sections of pumpkin. I actually broke off his mouth and had to reattach it with a needle (we were out of toothpicks). The pumpkin looks pretty ugly with the lights on, but with the lights out, it not too horrible. Here's a lights-on/lights-off comparison. :)



And here's how the pattern turned out.