7 stage Halloween Art

Halloween has passed and I wanted to share some Art for my 2nd favorite Holiday.
This is a continuation of the "Crude Carving" piece I published early that month, at first I didn't plan to take it any further than where it was, just a simple pumpkin carving of Mono, but then I decided I can make it look better, because the first iteration I'm not proud of.

Here are all the stages:

1. The Crude Carving.

It started out as a simple (but kind of lazy) celebration of the spooky month.

2. Why is it frowning now? 

From the moment I began working on the second stage, I wanted to elevate the original iteration into something better, this second stage wasn't a good start, even if the intention was to be subtle in it's "Progress".

3. "He looks so sad!" 

Stage 3 is my favorite iteration of The Crude Carving in it's not-rotten state, I refined the carve lines to be more shoddy and changed the light inside the pumpkin to have a visible radius instead of lighting the entire inside area, which looked flat.

4. The time will pass anyway.

Stage 4 is when I got interested in creating an "Ending" to this little idea, so I began with subtly changing the pumpkin's shape to show that it was beginning to rot away.

5. Abandoned.

Not too proud of this stage, the carve lines didn't turn out how I wanted them to, and the pumpkin itself I wish I rendered better, because the vertical lines seem jarring to me looking back now.

6. Never truly alone.

While Mono is the highlight of this stage, I realized way too late that I forgot to draw the vertical lines on the pumpkin during the rendering process and it upsets me, oh well.

7. Like looking at a mirror.

I originally planned to keep the nighttime for this final stage but ultimately decided against it because the nighttime got a little repetitive to me, sunrises are nice, it also gave me the chance to redraw the clouds, and I love drawing clouds.




It's been a weird year, but here's to the next one being better, I'm still chipping away at the TRC animation, I wanna reiterate that it will take lots of time to complete, and that lots of things have been slowing me down (mental health especially), I'll get it done though, because I want to.

Take care.