HAPPY HALLOWEEN, ERRRYONE!! ***I just received word that my pumpkin won the Blizzard Entertainment Carving Contest! Thank you so much for all who enjoy my pumpkins!! :'D*** Seeing as it's Halloween today, I'm posting my 9th World of Warcraft annual pumpkin carving! For some reason, the deadline was changed to October 25th instead of the usual 29th. Despite finding out this stressful surprise on October 19th, and for those who know my situation where I've been battling a neurological condition, I am SO excited that I pushed through and made it in time to participate. I even finished 1 day early! This guy required an excessive amount of effort to get done, and as always, hours (and hours!) of ridiculously challenging work, but it sure was fun. I hope you all enjoy it and Happy Halloween everyone! ^__^ ~Rainedeer Media: Pumpkin + carving tools Smoldering Ember Wyrm © Blizzard All art © Rainedeer/R.Pye (Boring Twitter text until I figure out how to embed an icon xD) twitter.com/RainePye [[Since I began pumpkin carving for the first time in 2009, it has become a personal tradition to carve each year, as well as to participate in the Blizzard Entertainment pumpkin carving contest. Below, I've stuck in a bit of a carvings breakdown over the years, as this will now be my 9th pumpkin! Wonderfully enough, all 5 pumpkins have made it up on the Honorable Mentions wall on the official Blizzard website, with the previous 3 pumpkins from 2014-2016 succeeding in snagging the 1st Place winning slot! Onyxia - 2009 Skoll - 2010 Vial of Sands - 2011 Shado-Pan Tiger - 2012 Cloud Serpent - 2013 Lord Darius Crowley - 2014 Reins of the East/West Wind Drake - 2015 Legion Storm Drake - 2016]]