Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns

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About Fantasy Pumpkin's Free Pumpkin Carving Patterns

I made patterns for many (but not all) of the pumpkins I carved. For those other than Disney Patterns, I have posted them below, along with a picture of my carving of it. Feel free to use these patterns for your own pumpkin carving. As long as you aren't using them for mass production, I have no problem with you using the pattern to sell the pumpkins. But if you do use the patterns to sell pumpkins on Ebay or another website, please give me credit for the pattern, along with a link here.

Why Aren't Your Disney Patterns Shown? While I absolutely love making patterns of Disney characters (for instance, my Maleficent Dragon one last year took me well over 12 hours to create), I cannot post them here. Disney sues people who put their pumpkin patterns online, and I am not really interested in paying for a lawyer. I will say I think they are incredibly short sighted about this. Here people are carving their characters on pumpkins, which essentially translates to free marketing for them. Apparently Disney advocates the penny-wise, pound-foolish approach.

How Long Does it Take to Make Your Patterns? The longest I've taken on making a pattern was 23 hours (this was for my Dark Dsurian Pattern, which isn't really polished yet). But most take me somewhere between 2 - 12 hours.

Why Are You Giving These Away? I'm far more interested in seeing these get carved (please send me a picture if you do carve them) than in spending time working my website to get small amounts of money for them. As far as I'm concerned, I probably can't get what they're worth, so I might as well give them away. The amount of work most pumpkin pattern sites have to do to create a professional website, you really should pay the $8 bucks to join. They really bust hump.

Gosh! Some of These Look Hard to Carve: Um, yep. Again, I make patterns for me to carve. I try to do a good job of cleaning these up for others to use though. But many of my patterns would definitely fall into the "Extreme Difficulty" rating on some of the paid sites.

How Do These Patterns Work? This page assumes you have done pumpkin carving before - specifically a skinned pumpkin carve, where you can either cut all the way through, cut just the skin off or leave the pumpkin skin on to have a 3-color pumpkin. The mockups look like the real carving, whereas the patterns are used to tape (or glue) onto the pumpkin to trace. To use the patterns, the black color means to "cut through" the pumpkin, the gray means to take off the skin, and the white area means to leave that part alone. In essence, the patterns are an "inverse" color scheme to the mock-ups. If you need to learn the basics, I highly recommend going to the CarvingPumpkins.com Instructions section, and then to visit the Q&A board for questions.

New Patterns for 2008

These are the patterns I've created so far for 2008 (Disney ones not included for the reasons stated above - so far I've done patterns for Wall-E and Eve).

Brisinger (Latest Eragon Book) - painting by John Jude Palencar

Rating: Hard. I expect the cut-throughs on the chest won't be very easy. That plus the overall detail means this pattern will probably take a good bit of time.