Je länger man malt, desto mehr ist man Lehrling The longer you paint the more you are an apprentice.
Bele Bachem
Brief introduction: SaintFox is
-a woman born 1962 at the north sea coast of Germany.
-moved to the german midwest in 1996
-to a small town that offers a lot of medieval inspiration
-has at least two souls
...and about the nick: It's a mixture of my haircolor and a tattooed fox cub that I wear and that looks so saintly as a vegetarian. As long as I can think I enjoyed being creative - and I always loved learning something new! As I had my first look here I so much wanted to do images like the ones I saw in the gallery.But it took me several years to be brave enough to post my first image here. After all I do not understand anymore what made me hesitate so long... I'm a professional artist/illustrator, not at least because of the permanent encouragement of the "Captain of my heart", he's my muse, my secretary, my "wonderwall" against those things that are able to disturb creative processes so easily. Most of my work is published by a german gallery in Gelsenkirchen and available at my own homepage, too. In late 2005 I wask asked for my first collaborated works and so I finally found a second profession in doing my own characters and textures what enables me to give my images even more personal style.
Whenever I start to work on something new - especially when working with characters - there is a moment when the bundle of polygons and pixels suddenly seems to look at me from the other side of the monitor, it's the moment when my creations get personality. This is, at least, what I like to "transport" with my products: artist tools that are able to inspire the people that work with them because they have a kind of "virtual soul".
A woman under influence
Major influences on my work come from other admired artists and music. Some of my favorites: Jan Vermeer van Delft James Jaques Tissot Rembrandt van Rijn Hajime Sorayama Olivia De Berardinis Marcus Gray Herb Ritts Helmut Newton Alberto Vargas Ricky Carralero Gerald Brom ...and, regarding the feelings that I have when doing my characters: Dr. Viktor Frankenstein! Music: Too much to count, alternative and classics preferred but sometimes it has to be soul or jazz, too. The second large influence are people I met here: They comment on my images and help me to enhance them, they share their knowledge and finally some of them decided to involve me in their projects. For me (as I grew up in the before-internet-age) it's still some kind of miracle that people are able to work together independent of where they live.
...and, before I forget, the strongest influence during the last years came from some lines I read about 15 years ago:
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.
D.H. Lawrence
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Comments (25)
restif
stunning
anitalee
Beautiful!
ZeroEffect
Fantastic render, I love the pose. Lighting is perfact as well....Nice
leda_moon
Beautiful scene,so magical!!Excellent!!
drifterlee
Gorgeous!
designthedream
Marvelous, despite your problems rendering, it came out beautifully =)
rixster
Excellent lighting and pose - Love it!!
Krid
great scene with excellent pose and outfit
tabala
WIE- DU bist nicht wirklich zufrieden... Ich mags leiden ;) Der kontrast zwischen Figur und Hintergrund ist mal wieder bestechend. Und der Schatten kommt richtig gut raus. Das Haar ist Klasse geworden... nicht so Comichaft seufz DAS SIND BRUSHES??? ... excellent of course in lightening , pose and composition :o)
SophiaDeer
Excellent pose and mood! Her hair is fantastic!
ericfarris
Magnific Meike, simply Magnfiic!!!!! I feel lot of emotions here
xbook
Awesome job , i love her hair
Fredy
Very nice Meike! I love the POV and the lighting! :)
iamkate101
fantastic posing and lighting!! excellent job!
webdancer
Magnificent and I love the title!
Ede1302
Du kannst zufrieden sein... mal wieder eine fantastische Arbeit Meike!!! Fantastic... Excellent work!!!
seda
I know what you mean when you say that skin is not as good as in poser =( I prefferd C4D for the scene construction but poser provides better look for the closeups. None the less this is an excellent image as always my friend!!!
GRiMAge
This is one great and beautiful image! The pose is evocative and impressive! Good luck in your fight insomnia fight! :)
logiloglu
wow,einfach unglaublich wie Du das machst. Deine Bilder sind atemberaubend. #:O)
Blasius
----- EXCELLENT ---!
UweMattern
Fantastic scene, the painted hair is perfect! ~Uwe
AnneCHPostma
Great image and title!
awadissk
Fantastic work, this is an excellent one!!!!!!!!!!!!
richardson
A very stark rich-textured render. C4D certainly nails the texs and shadows. Skin is as you said, fine from this distance. But you have sss in that, no? Many ways to get the skin. Hdri, even.
Mondwin
Great and splendid image!!EXc. bravo!!vote!!:DDD