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 (35)
A_Sunbeam
Nice piece of work - very imaginative! Beautifully sharp rendering of colours and textures.
huenersh
Wonderful detailed work with your great character!
spm91g
WOW Incredible character and detail!!
awadissk
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
broken-wings
Sorry to hear this! Excellent pose and great character!
MajinBoo
Fantastic character design and the pose is beautiful!
RGUS
FANTASTIC.... this is so damn dynamic!!!! WOW!!!
Draco1960
Excellent render...
stukes
Magnificent image with marvelous colors. Excellent!!!!!!!!
rebelmommy
ABSOLUTELY STUNNING!!!
foxy-me2
outstanding Charly x
flaviok
belissima obra, aplausos
lwperkins
Kabuki was the first thing I thought when I saw this--it's such a stunning set, I'm sorry it has to go through testing again! But in the meantime it is wonderful to see the renders!
janedj
Fantastic very crative image...Perfect light!!!
zhaanman
Amazing detail awesome pose outstanding characer I'm in love!!!
MarciaGomes
Fanttica obra.++++5
bogart137
Spectacular! Thats all I have to say!
PsychoNaut
Ooh blue=evil no wonder I like blue :D Fantastic and AWESOME!
richard57
nice work my friend5++!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! richard
ruana
wow thats cool!!!!!! i think i should start using miki2!!! great stuff!!
ilona Online Now!
this is the first time I wanna get Miki.. Ove never seen such an amazing texture... IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIncredible!
4blueyes
Impressive! Your skill is amazing :)
drifterlee
Freaky Geisha!!
Skydancer917
She's fantastic!!!
Dragontales
That's one crazy outfit. But it works well for the image. Great stuff!
Fredy
Oh wow! She looks very wicked and cool! Bravo!
TheAnimaGemini
Incredible work. Great!
ericfarris
Superb!!!!! Magnific Make -up, bravo Meike! Hugsssssss
Morbri
This is really one far out, wonderful render. Great stuff. 5+
hansklerk
Great character and pose. Beautiful render.