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 (27)
yakchat
Oh she is gorgeous and I love the lighting....awesome....beautiful art hon...huggers, Carol
RGUS
HOT...HOT...HOT... and I'm at work right now too... damn.. "hey guys.. come and have a look at this!!!!"... well I had to show the rest of the office!... Yeah they're all in love now!
Wiccan
She certainly is sultry! I really like the character... she is not a cookie cutter type. She has lots of personality! The foggy, smoky effect is perfect... it adds more length to the render. Her legs look like they go on forever.
Denys234
This lighting package is just awesome.I highly reccomend it!!
garadir
great pic. the lighting is excellent. 5++
gypsyangel
This looks AMAZING!! So beautiful...just perfect!!
rebelmommy
Beautiful!
imagist
Excellent volumetric lighting
drifterlee
The lighting is fantastic! I have not mastered atmospheric yet!
MajinBoo
The words seem so perfect for the image. Everyone is right the lighting and really makes the picture perfect. Great atmopshere!
buckzero
Excellent image, like the light and atmosphere.
kentguy71
great job
Fredy
Very beautiful! Love the volumetric light! :)
hansklerk
Looks great. Especially the lighting is excellent.
tabala
.... and I liked this rpomo so much :) To see it in a bigger version is great, as the render is, as usual ^^ Combining shaders with bumpmaps is a good idea- I use this technic very often. So You can combine the best of two things and get a complete new look without spending money or use of too much runtimespace , because all You use is already there.
brycek
Beautiful!!
awadissk
very nice!!!!!!
Atom
Shes very hot, love the outfit, LoL...Beautiful image!
Burpee
I always expect perfection from you and I am not disappointed. Wonderful!
webdancer
How cool! Love the atmosphere! Excellent!
DRAKELOT
Fantastic image Meike ... Antonio !!!
cindyx
The soft, sensual lighting showcases your lady perfectly. Really beautiful image!
missgrin
Beautiful, great pose and lights...
melabrad
fantastic. love the rays of the volumetric light!
PsychoNaut
Fantastic work here, in particular the juxtaposition with the lyrics. Funny, I've never thought about that... But that's how I view work I don't like doing: "You keep your mind on the money Keeping your eyes on the wall". Yaaay!
Zazou
Beautiful character and amazing light ! This would make a gorgeous print !
FS
Great lights and atmosphere!!!Fantastic pose!!!!Absolutely stunning work!!!!!