So I took some progress pics this time! Just to show a bit of what I do.

Those are all the tools I use, really pretty simple and not the best, but they work for me! Maybe eventually I'll upgrade to a nicer set, heh. The Orange things I just use to carve off the top of the pumpkin. It broke. I fixed it with gorilla tape.

The pencil sketch on the pumpkin is really hard to see because pencil doesn't show up well on pumpkin, but there is an indent and just enough for me to see and use as a guideline.

Then I just start chipping away! I should have written "Shepard." larger on the pumpkin, but oh well.

If you'd like to see some of the other carvings I've done this way,
I've got a few more.