Just A Little Ol' Pumpkin,
How Hard Could It Be?

Ut oh.........it's on to bezier curves now!  Don't panic.......this won't hurt a bit.  Add a new layer and you can call it line1 if you want to name these layers, but it really isn't neccessary to name them.

Set your foreground color to this shade of green:  Red 104, Green 88, Blue 16.   Click on the Draw tool with these settings:  Bezier Curve/Stroked/5/Create as vector.  Left click with the mouse at the top of the pumpkin in the middle.  Do NOT let go of the left click.  Drag the mouse down to the bottom of the pumpkin.  You can let go now.  Left click about half-way up the line, a little to the side.  Now left click back at the bottom.  Since this is a vector bezier, you can put the mouse over the middle of the right side and curve the line more.  This will be important for the next two lines.

Add a new layer.  Follow the above directions, starting half-way between the center of the right half of the pumkin at the top.  This time you will want to curve the line more by pulling it on the right side of the vector box.  Add a new layer.  Draw your bezier about half-way between this line and the right edge of the pumpkin.  You now have three bezier lines on different layers.  You can simply copy the last two lines you made, paste each as a new layer and mirror.

Merge Visible Layers.

Zoom in and clean up any parts of the lines that went over the edge of the pumpkin.  You may also have to add a pixel or two of the orange or green with the paint brush in some areas.  You are now ready to start making this look like a real pumpkin.

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