The not-so-realistic just saw a little bit of realism to create a realistic attempt at being realistic. Confused?

Today we were given the aim to render 3 different boxes and create a lighting effect. I first created 3 boxes, then pressed 'M' (keyboard shortcut to Material editor) and then rendered textured colours onto the shapes. After that, I used more complex texturing such as marble, swhirls, wood grain and foliage (tree). I found this alot easier than I thought it would be, and I'd happily do it again.