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 (31)
Whatthe
Lovely! Good choice to go black and white for this.
Fredy
Oh! Beautiful! It is so difficult to make a nice greyscale image!!! This one is very nice! Thanks a lot! :) :) :)
FS
It looks great in B/W!!!Wonderful composition and pose!!EXCELLENT!!
RGUS
Looking forward to this series Meike... nice bum!!!!
gypsyangel
This is very VERY erotic---what a marvelous image!!!
WhopperNnoonWalker-
very tasteful and beatyful...wow
Kokomiko
Fantastic!
Dragontales
Awesome stuff. Maybe a hint more midtones, it seems a bit bright, but that's just my eye. Looking forward to the rest of the series!!
camera
I think you did a very good job working in black and white and producing an excellent range of grays from pure black to white and very subtle.
webdancer
Quite lovely! Excellent work, even in B & W! Gives it a 50ish style!
twingo
A wonderful image, excellent idea with the B&W, it really works...
Paldav
Wonderfull B&W image. Really a great work!!!
newangels
Personally I love Black and whites and this one is awesome look forward to the others you make well done :) Angela
stukes
Can't wait for the series to begin. Outstanding image!!
artroland
Um. WOW. Only thing I can say is, is she free for New Year's Eve?
huenersh
Your grayscale turned out very well!Absolutely fantastic!
cole4965
Looks very retro in a good way. Like pin-ups from an era gone by. Very sexy!
eekdog
sweet!
Surama
Great Maike!
linkdink
...gotta get that lingerie, been in my List for awhile. This sells it pretty well!
Monuli
In BW siehts dein Bild klasse aus Meike. Sche Abstufung in den Grauten. Geflt mir sehr gut !! VG Uli 5+
maplin
Another sexy image
xbook
perrrrrfect
meselfr
most excellent.... :)
awadissk
Very well done work, great!!!!!!!!!!
rixster
Looks like the start of another excellent series - superb textures, pose and composition - like it!!!
tabala
I have seen so many B/W photos the last week - modern and old ones- that I could swear I am fed up of it. But, dear You beat me ^^ This one is stunning! Excellent renderwork, fantastic idea and very well done. I bet if this would be in the exhebition noone would see that`s NOT a photo but 3D-art :O) Enthusiastic 5 stars and straight into my fav's!
louly
Stunning! Wonderfully done!
GrassHopper1
excellant work
ericfarris
WOW Meike, I speechless, this MAGNIFIC!!!!!!!!!! BRVAO!! Hugssssssssssssssssss