Assignment: Jack o Lantern with Emboss Brush

Okay, first things first.

Jennah, thank you so much for letting me stalk you down and get what the assignment is from you considering the lack of responses I've gotten.

The assignment, as I understand it, is to use the emboss brush actions technique we learned to create a textured JackoLantern. I wanted a bit of extra flame and lots of cool lighting effects for mine, so I grabbed a ton of reference. I used the bevel and emboss layer style and assigned it to an action so my hot key would create a new layer, activate the style and effect only my brush then merge down once finished. So the effect is I get a cool texture without effecting the entire painting. There is a back lighting layer and a front fire lighting layer incase my professor doesn't like it.

Hope you enjoy the end result:

 Critique: The background is kind of bland, redesign the flames, Design the piece a bit more.

I added in a background light source, cleaned up the texture on the front, gave it a foreground, played with the flames a bit, and added more red to the inside.