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Artists Ray Villafane and Andy Bergholtz created the Halloween horrors in their workshop.
Former art teacher Ray, 43, began carving without any training and only discovered his talent after offering to shape a pumpkin for one of his pupils.
Now he can carve a fully detailed pumpkin in just two hours.
Ray, from Bellaire, Michigan, US, said: “Very often I don’t have a preconceived idea of what I’m going to carve, I just start carving and the creative ideas come to me.
“It doesn’t always turn out the way I wanted and there’s always times when I have to throw away the pumpkin and start again.
“The pumpkin is the most important element in my work, I’ll pick up around 50 different pumpkins before I even find one which is suitable to carve.
“The best pumpkins are the ones that feels heavy for its size, that tells me it’s going to be a thick pumpkin, you need the pumpkins to be thick so you can carve a 3d face out of it.”
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