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 (38)
gypsyangel
OUCH!! Why she is just delightfully dangerous!!! Brilliant work, once again!! :)
Denys234
Excellent!
RGUS
I always wondered how you met leo... now I know... you won him in a pub pool game.. good on you Meike... must have been 'best of three'... to win him... a prized catch like him... especially with his balls... lol... EXCELLENT ma'am... and I wouldn't have expected anything less than BLACK for this image.
akulla
My favorite ball.
camera
Nice job! Love those boots. Yes, I've often dropped the 8 before it was due. Very nice render!
Niha
She is awesome! Love it! You guys better get back from your monitors, she is ready to whip it, whip it good!! LOL Excellent composition! NICE JOB!
shamstar
Oh yeah!! Really great. Dave
HADCANCER
well I see you got this out of your (bag) pocket early. I thought it was going to be the last one you posted to win the game .... anyway nice job as usual.
jwiest
LOL@ Deane. Gorgeous way to finish out the solids...well, I guess technically you're not done with solids since there's still the cue ball to go. If indeed you do that one. Awesome!
Monuli
Meine Lieblingskugel. Und ein neues Bild f die Pinwand. SUPI Meike. Sches Wochenende und Lg Uli 5+++++
Kuiski
Sexy and great pin up, excellent pose and good light. Splendid artwork!!!
Fredy
Nice nice nice! Jaja, die be Acht... ;)
awadissk
Awesome work!!!!!!!!!
rebelmommy
YEAH!!! The 8 ball.. my personal favorite!!!
stick
Right on target, she is perfect for the 8 ball.
PoserHobbit
Fantastic work!!
chimera46
8 ball!! great stuff!
eekdog
a very awesome lady and job!
kelkor
Somehow I knew there would be a little bit of Domm With the 8 ball. This is Sex-cellent.
stukes
Faaaabuuulous!!!! Excellent pose. Great props.
rixster
Perfect character for No.8 - awesome!!!
penguin357
Love it!!
Surama
Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RodolfoCiminelli
Excellent work......!!!!
FS
Fantastic character,render and outfit!!!!Brilliant work!!!
MajinBoo
I don't think anyone could be disappointed with the 8 ball girl! Someone brought up an interesting point what about the cue ball?
Dragontales
Definately fits the 8 ball. Great Work!
PsychoNaut
Whip! Appropriate for teh 8 BALL! Love this whole idea of yours
ericfarris
Excellent concept for the number 8! Hugsssssssssss
cole4965
Fantastic image!!! I think it is my favorite out of a great series!!!