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As is my tradition, I strive to do decent jack-o-lantern carvings and each year attempt a theme of sorts. Usually it isn't solely comics. I usually only have one comic lantern each year, what I call 'my pumpkin'.
But this year is the 25th anniversary of Batman the Animated Series and I thought what theme could be better. With a couple of nephews who are all into Batman these days, I decided I'd get carving. I hope these turned out okay.
I wanted to do something a bit art deco for the 'main' pumpkin, something sort of daring and risky. I felt that end image of the opening when the lightning bolt lights up Batman is so iconic that it would be the ultimate homage.
This was tough for a couple of reasons. For one, I drew the stencil on backwards from the show opening, a rookie mistake. But then trying to decide what would be carved, uncarved, and through was a challenge. I needed to add details so people would know this was Batman.
I am on the fence about this one, not sure if I am happy with it or not.
I contemplated just scraping the rind off the hair but in the end decided it was fine to keep up essentially uncarved.
The mouth was the hardest part as carving out those teeth without breaking the demarcations meant a steady hand and careful knife work.
And then to complete the triad, I carved a Harley Quinn jack-o-lantern. And I did my personal favorite version of her, the classic Harley.
This was basically a straightforward carving but I am very very pleased with it. While the Batman one I felt was ambitious because of the image I was trying to pull off, this one was ambitious because it would be easy to screw up.
This one is my favorite of the year!
Here is Harley uncarved, with color to remind me which side of her costume was which color.
Anyways, enjoy the candy and hope you get more treats than tricks!
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