After over 15 years give or take, I finally got to carve myself a pumpkin for Halloween. Every year I would think to myself that I'd need to do this... but never got around to actually DOING it. So this year, my boyfriend Dan, friend Shane and I decided to get up off our bums and drive to Bates Nut Farm to grab ourselves some fresh pumpkins. I was also able to snag some Pumpkin Butter which is absolutely DELICIOUS!!! Every spoonful is seriously like eating pumpkin pie.

Anyhow, we got our pumpkins I would guess about two weeks ago? And finally we decided to carve them. I, unfortunately, thought it would be a FANTASTIC idea to carve a side portrait of Dan's and my beloved bearded dragon... due to the fact that I had plopped him on top of my pumpkin and he just stood there looking like godzilla on his throne. Who wouldn't be inspired by that? Well, it turned into a mental chaotic disaster since I only had steak knives, a cheap arse pumpkin carving tool which later on broke, and Dan's razor tool. And not only that, but his scales would have taken forever to carve.


 Since Dan is able to spit out artwork like no other, I had to give my pumpkin carving a rest for a day or so. Finally this afternoon, I decided to just go for it and turn it into some random...thing. It was a little annoying because I was forced to use my bearded dragon's one eye and his ear as two eyes, but it was also fun to create something out of a failed attempt. So I just carved whatever, wherever, even if it didn't make sense. I almost wish I had bought a few more pumpkins because carving it was very therapeutic for me. It also got me into the holiday spirit. I hope this motivation actually gets me inspired to put effort into a costume for this year......

Did some random sketches tonight which took about 30 minutes for all four. Just playing around and not really caring about mistakes and what not. The material I used for this was Natural Vine Charcoal.





My favorite out of the four is the one of my family's and my dog, Eddie, who recently had to be put to sleep three and a half weeks ago. I have a different drawing I've been working on of him that will have its own post with a memorial of Eddie.