My pumpkin this year. I wasn't going to submit this to dA but then I saw the contest and thought hey, why not?
Unfortunately these are the best photos I can take with the camera I have, but I think it could have been worse so I'm not complaining.
This year for the first time I tried out the technique of carving at different depths to achieve different degrees of light, and it was fun! I don't have any professional tools or anything, so I used the blunt saw and scraper from a cheap carving kit, a spoon, a small kitchen knife, my wax knife, and a plastic pokey thingy.
This is pretty obviously no real species of deep-sea fish, it's just a decorative thing with big teeth and scales and woobly bits coming off it everywhere.
`anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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Also. I LIKE HIS FACE. '3' It's got lots of lovely glowy bits in it.
Best of luuuuuck in the contest.
I read that you also used this technique for the first time as well, do you also find it as fun as I did? C: