Oh, did I say that Liv might be possible? I don't know what you're talking about Dadja.
Honestly though, Liv would be a tough one. Same goes for most female faces. I also want to do a design of Elvira, but I run into the same problems.
It all comes down to the technical limitations of the pumpkin carving art form. Females with fair skin simply don't provide many facial features to keep everything connected.
Features like mustaches, glasses, and wrinkles help keep the pumpkin flesh connected. That's why hairy, wrinkly monsters are the easiest designs to create. But a pretty lass like Liv would need dark circles under her eyes and lots of deep shadows to stay together, which might hurt the overall likeness.
Of course, this brings up the concept of the other style of pumpkin carving. The method of only scraping away part of the pumpkin skin in some areas. This allows for more detail and more than one level of shading. But it's not a style of stencil I currently offer here. So far, I've been trying to keep it simple and stick to the traditional cut-out method.
What do you think? Would you be interested in stencils that involve the scrape away method of carving?
Seriously, though, there should be at least those guys, and Legolas and Arwen, eh? Plus, if there was a Legolas stencil, more people would probably join.
