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)
RetroDevil
very very well done!! this looks awesome!! im sure your sons GF will be very pleased! :D
rebelmommy
WOW! I think that no matter what genre you choose you still do the most magnificent pieces of art!
corvas
wow this is so awesome i really coulnt of done all that postwork on the hair that would of just kill me lol awesome fx and pose superb work
Kinouk
WOW!! I love postwork ;)And your PW rocks!! Excellent art! hugz
eekdog
outstanding! those ears are way too cool. excellent job all around. steve
DeLaCoon
Amazingly beautiful. I would be glad to get this as a poster.
Santel
she's grrrrreat!!!! wonderful render and postwork!
ilona
aaaahhhhh I love when you do these things! heehee.. you can do everything and that's the fun of it all.. and this elf has YOUR touch and that's the magic! I really ike it Meike.. you should do more of those in YOUR way!
Dragonluna1
Gorgeous!!
drifterlee
She's adorable!!
scorpion9
Beautiful work really nice....
chimera46
There's nothing wrong with elves, and there's nothing wrong with background pictures, it's how you USE THEM that matters, and here I think you've used them well. Excellent work!
Robert0921
excellent little portrait. I love the line from Highlander as the title too. :)
crazywaitress
ahhhh.....looks good!!!.....even the skin, and its a portrait....kudos
huenersh
Outstanding elve image, adorable!
RGUS
This is so "out of your square"... I can't believe the same brilliant artist did this... it's so... ummmmm... well bugger it... it's really GOOD!
sim3344
Excellent work!!!
awadissk
wonderful render, excellent
Tracesl
beautiful
missgrin
Magical portrait...
lwperkins
It's soo cute--the best part is her pose and expression--she has so much of a mischevious and charming spirit! I think all of your art is splendid!
Monuli
Viele Zutaten für ein klasse Bild Meike. 5+++ ~ Uli
jwiest
Wow Meike...I can tell you had fun with this. If you were rusty at the start of the project, you surely aren't now. :)
MajinBoo
This looks fantastic! Your a natural a elf images I see. I was more surprised to see a closeup potrait instead of a full body shot. I really love how you posed the hands.
beowlar
Magnificent !!!!!
webdancer
Oh, this is spendid! Excellent!
Kartika
Superb character!
Bez
Absolutely stunning, I love this one - amazing :)
louly
Gorgeous! All of it but I especially like how you retouched the hair :)
Rainbowgirl
I must have seen this face somewhere before... giggle Unusual for you indeed, but nonetheless beautiful! I wish I had your skills.