Tuesday, March 18, 2025

March 18 - Pumpkinhead

"There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."

~ It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown

A single, forgotten plot of land - long overgrown and untended. The kind of place farmers avoid without knowing why, where the crows perch in eerie silence, watching. It's here that a pumpkin, chosen by forces unknown, begins to stir.  At first, it's subtle - a slow creak as vines tighten, a faint glow in the hollowed spaces where no eyes should be.  Then, it rises.

No hands plant it on a scarecrow's shoulders.  It places itself. 

Tonight the contract will be fulfilled.
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This design is based on Isopresso's scarecrow tutorial. My previous attempt felt too ... neat for something that has such potential for creepiness.  

I overdid it  -- went dark and had to pull back to 'creepy'.  

I left the description/images on the blog if you're oddly curious or curiously odd though.  The thought for the image was "bleached bones left behind as a warning sign .. a poor deckhand who felt fortunate being asked by the captain to help bury his treasure."  The last hole he dug and it wasn't even for his own grave.  Oof.  I don't like human monsters.

Drawing on a flower shape is rough, it even feels a bit like cheating since you can get it to look decent from one direction even if it looks terrible from the side because of it.

 
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