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 (30)
richard57
magnifique work+5
Arthorius
Great image Sainfox! If I may give one small point of feedback... her right leg is poking through the back of the skirt. But the rest is wonderful. (Hope you will do a refit for Nubya for Miki2 as well)
gypsyangel
Oh wow...too cool!!! Love her outfit...seriously? You didn't know she was out? :D That's too funny!!!
SaintFox
Hey, thanks a lot - I had to adjust brightness on my monitor to find the error - and corrected it immediatly!
rebelmommy
This is fantastic!! Gorgeous work as always you too! And a shameless plug from my end.. if you dont own a set of lights from Saintfox get em while they are on sale. Her lights are the best out there for setting moods!
RGUS
Sweet.... love those textures!
HADCANCER
I am impressed
Angelsinger
Amazing how realistic she is. Phenomenal textures! wowww
camera
Of course she looks fantastic. We knew that. Your lights do wonders for her skin.
webdancer
She is stunning! Excellent!
lwperkins
Just gorgeous! hehe, and I got her first thing this morning--I can't wait to try her tomorrow! I love how she is holding the parrot--in a way that is exactly right for it's weight--plus I love it's silly face!
FUNJOKER
Marvellous like work full with hours crtivits ..... for the pleasure pleasure pleasure it is nice;) good day.
linkdink
Lovely work. The bird is a nice touch.
Fredy
Wonderful lighting, posing and the bird is an excellent touch! Well done my dear friend hugz
Renderholic
Lovely image!!!
Kartika
She's really gorgeous!!!
broken-wings
Love the whole scene! Excellent done!
boundless
Tolle Kombination von Kleidung und Character. Der Papagei sieht echt putzig aus - prima Idee! 5 stars... and many more :-))
Morbri
Oh My God! I'm simply speechless. This looks so real! What a beauty. 5+ Adding the parrot was a nice touch!
huenersh
Grortig!Nubya ist einfach super! Die Idee mit dem Vogel hatte ich rigens auch ;-)
ericfarris
Your character is simply wonderful! Big BRAVO Meike!!!!!!!
ms1
Jambo! G R E A T
awadissk
Great image, excellent!!!!!!!!!
MajinBoo
Arrghhh! I have to wait till payday to get this beauty added to my runtime!
akulla
Very beautiful image.
juca
Excellent character!! Stunning artwork.
PsychoNaut
Oh yes, what a lovely face. Beautiful eyelashes and the skin tone is exotic-perfection
tabala
Jambo! :) She is a stunner and I hope she will be a "Knler" for a long time!
Burpee
She is one of the best characters for V4 that I have seen and you crafted a beautiful image to show her off to her best!
Monuli
Wow, klasse Texturen auf dem Outfit. TOP Bild. ..Uli