Life and Death and Marker Comps

How good is this marker comp, right? 

So for this project of juxtaposition of life and death, I chose a healthy little pumpkin (which I suppose is already dead but let's forget that) and a rotting jack-o-lantern. I shot the photo on the left on Saturday when we ventured out to La Plata to go to a pumpkin patch, and then I found some photo reference on the left on the almighty internets.

I'm not sure yet which medium I will be using for this project. So there's that.