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 (29)
huenersh
it looks like you have had fun with this! Fantastic light and the character is great anyhow ;-)
eekdog
great job indeed! 10 stars
richard57
Stunning, fantastic my friend5+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! richard.
Kartika
Excellent work!
melabrad
great dynamic
broken-wings
Just great!!!
Fredy
Excellent!!! :)
RodolfoCiminelli
Impressive work and very dynamic pose....!!! Fantastic outfits....!!!
willigooo
Great work...love it
TheAnimaGemini
Powerful work. Excellent done.
rebelmommy
Fantastic!
PsychoNaut
AAA! She's reaching for my soul! Run for the hills! Awesome girl she is, so versatile for images
Draco1960
Really nice work !!!
awadissk
Excellently done work!!!!!!!!!!!
MarciaGomes
FANTTICA OBRA.+++++++5
tabala
Whoooo- what a warioress! Am still glad that she's finally out:) Great work on the pose and the cloth, but brilliant lights. The more I look at this render the more I enjoy the shadowplay :)
morghana
Fantastic image! Awesome!!!
MajinBoo
I'm not which I more sorry for that this is last of the 3 or that you had to suffer one of those nasty trojan viruses. Still I'm happy to see you posting and glad to know your virus problem has been solved.
Burpee
You poor dear!!! Sorry that you got hit. They get more clever all the time. I just got one from Bank of America that looked so real. I deleted it. I hope you are back to 100%. This character is unbelievably awesome!!! I love her!
Antonio57
Outstanding picture!!! Well done!!!+ 5 BRAVO
Zazou
Stunning character !!
drifterlee
Awesome character!!
BBarbs
This is so beautiful !!! Love the pose. She appears very powerful !!! Excellent work !!!
shipmanjonathan
Fantastic work!! I just love it!!
FS
Very dynamic scene!!!Fantastic character,texture and outfit!!!!Amazing work!!!
missgrin
Awesome work...
gypsyangel
Oh wow...why didn't I see this one already?? :( This is INCREDIBLE!!! You made Miki look more real than she ever has...amazing work!!
Tahera
Too beautiful image!
Horstmeister
Well done! fantastic work!