Yay! It's pumpkin time again! Go ceemdee! :-D

I still want Wizball ;-)

Hahaha. I used to think your av was an angry watermelon till I saw that box art.

@ OP Really nice work on the pumpkin.

Yeah, I've heard that before ;-)

For newer forumites, here are ceemdee's previous pumpkin threads.
Pumpkin, the sequel to cake
Pumpkins! (2010)
Pumpkins! (2011)

Promise me you'll never stop being awesome:) I look forward to your pumpkins every year!

Damn, man, that's some beautiful stuff. Looked through your gallery. How long on average does it take you to carve one of those? I don't think I'd have the patience to do anything like that, let alone be any good at it.

As for suggestions, I'd think these three would be quite suitable, especially Master of Magic.

What does it look like when you put a candle on the inside? It looks like the cuts are too superficial to let the light through. It'd be the best to have this eerie glowing image at night, no?

Umm, did you even look at the first image? That's with the candle inside (at least I think it's a candle =P).

This is incredible, certainly my favorite pumpkin out of everything you've done the past few years. Very nice work.

Wow! Really?! I thought it was the image you used for the design!

Well done, sir. Well done!

It really depends on the image and sometimes it even the shape or thickness of the pumpkin. Some of the larger carvings ones take less time than the smaller ones. Also I constantly take breaks (and get distracted). I'd say the first one probably took around 2 hours and the second around 5.

Also it's actually a lightbulb in the pumpkin. Most of the cuts don't go through (or are very tiny if they do) so with the lid on the pumpkin is pretty airtight. A candle would just go out eventually.

And one more for this pumpkin.
Pumpkin 3a Pumpkin 3b

Freakin' awesome!

Nice to see ceemdee appearing like clockwork at the beginning of this season. Hadn't seen the avatar around these parts in a while.

And, on topic, excellent pumpkins as always!

Whoa, fantastic!