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 (36)
LadyMari
Happy New Year to you!! Beautiful image!
yakchat
Beautiful character and lovely dress......wonderful art...Happy New Year to you too hon...love, Carol
angelbearzs
she is beatiful:)
MoxieGraphix
Happy New Year to you too! Love that dress, stuck it on my wishlist earlier so I can grab it after the holidays are over.
Santel
Happy New Year to a wonderful artist.
PG-Graphics
Happy New Year auch für Euch :-) HUGS
drifterlee
Gorgeous dress and scene!! Happy New Year!!
traeumerle62
Happy New Year :)
corvas
Beautiful render Happy new year
sim3344
Beautiful work!!! And Happy New Year
Monuli
Ich wünsche Dir und Leo auch ein tolles und vor allem gesundes neues Jahr Meike. Viele Grüße Uli
bruelmcbeal
Une façon originale de mettre fin à l'année écoulée. Magnifique !!! Bonne Année 2008.
huenersh
Sehr schöne Neujahrs-Karte, Meike. Wünsche Dir und Leo einen guten Rutsch und ein gesundes, frohes und erfolgreiches 2008!
gypsyangel
Beautifully done---nice to see Nubya out and about. :)
Kartika
Wowwwwww!!! She's absolutely superb! Wonderful dress! Happy New Year!
Eganko
Happy new Year to you, too
RodolfoCiminelli
Excellent and beautiful realization....!!! Happy New Year to you too....!!! #:O)
Romantic-3D
Das wünsche ich Euch auch Meike! Happy New Year! Hugs :)
Robert0921
Same to you!
eekdog
well done job! happy new year to you. steve
beowlar
Well done! Happy New Year!!!!!
Dragontales
A Wonderful image, and a Happy New Year to you as well. :)
MajinBoo
Happy New Year love the style and layout of this image!
missgrin
Wonderfull creation, happy new year....
FS
Great render and lighting!!!Brilliant work!!! I WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR
lwperkins
I always though Nubya would make a wonderful glamor girl--and in this dress she is a star! Happy New Year to you and may your year be full of unexpected delights!
saeltari
Happy New Year!
jartz
Happy New Year, SF, I hope the new year become wonderful, blessed and plentiful. A welcoming passage of a challenging year, your render is. Thanks for sharing. JB
Fredy
Frohes Neues! :)
eportscreations
Always excellent work! Happy New Year!