How Do You Make Elaborate Castles With Cardboard Boxes?
People are often surprised at the level of elaborate sculptural detail that can be achieved with a material as ubiquitous as cardboard. Looking at the work of cardboard artists such as Mark Langan and Alex Uribe can help not only give you ideas but also illustrate the visual complexity that cardboard has to offer. Although you have to be willing to put considerable time into making elaborate castles out of cardboard, there are few limits outside your imagination to what you can do with nothing more than cardboard, glue and a craft knife. Make at least four towers out of pieces of heavy cardboard to serve as corner supports for your castle. Measure to find the height and circumference appropriate to your castle towers. Draw and cut out the measured rectangle so that the S-shaped corrugated lines are on the edge that will be the top of the tower. Measure and mark vertical lines every half inch along the rectangle with a pencil and ruler. Use your craft knife to carefully cut along the ve
