Last week’s assignment was to texture a house. At least we got a good model to start with. I didn’t want to do just any house. A picture should tell a story; not all of mine do, but that’s something I’m trying to fix. I wracked my brain trying to come up with an idea that spoke to me. Medieval house? No, the model was too modern. One of the little pigs houses? Just couldn’t get into the idea. So as I was searching through textures and house ideas, I found a corrugated cardboard house meant as a scratching post for cats. Cardboard. Paper. Yeah, I’ll build a house out of cardboard. But what kind of house is made out of cardboard? A model of a house!
So this is a house model, like someone might make for a school project. The house is made of cardboard and balsa wood and the roof is straw (glued on top of pieces of cardboard, but these have been covered too well to see them). The window “glass” is made of aluminum foil stretched over cardboard and glued to the inside of the house. The chimney is supposed to be of crumpled aluminum foil, but I think it looks more like duct tape. But duct tape works too. And of course, so our imaginary student can get her proper grade, she signed the back of it.
SketchFab doesn’t show my house in the best light. The roof texture has been particularly flattened, but you can see it here: