Justice for Tristan Jack-O-Lantern

I have a sort of running joke with a friend on Facebook regarding Justin Bieber, and after she posted this link on my wall to someone who made a Jack-O-Lantern of him, I got curious as to how people made portrait pumpkins. After a brief internet search, I found two decent links (1) (2) that described the process, and decided to try making my own. As I'm currently organizing a benefit concert for my friend Tristan Anderson, I thought I'd try doing him. Here are the results...

 

The websites said that with the lights on it would look pretty bad. Still, I was surprised when I finally put a candle inside and turned down the lights.

 

Here's a picture with the pumpkin lit up from the inside in very dim light.

 

And here's one in complete darkness.

 

This is the image I used to carve the pumpkin. One of the links at the top of this post shows you exactly how to create a 3-shaded posterized image from an original photo using photoshop.