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 (26)
shipmanjonathan
Awesome!!
drifterlee
Gorgeous! Why isn't the Vayne braid available? Glad I bought it. It was popular. I hate when merchants discontinue products. That jewelry (HMANN?) is perfect for her.
RGUS
Don't knowe the answer Meike.. but geeezus... you got some great textures and shadows happening here.... I bow to your talent... with or without the script working.
PsychoNaut
Ha ha! the Mark of the Rani! (Your model is much hotter than the Doctor Who one ;D)
moonrancher
Awesome!!! I want a tenth of your patience!!!
huenersh
einfach fantastisch! Bollywood grüßt!
Rainbowgirl
She's a gorgeous exotic beauty and the jewellry suits her well. Sadly I do not know what to do with the bump map problem beside cursing and do it all again. That's what I do...
Unicornst
She's astounding! Perfect morphs going by her name. And that jewelry is amazing. I can't ever get it to look that good. Wonderful, wonderful portrait!
lwperkins
I have the same problem with the bump maps--I think it is because the cache gets too full-- you may be able to clear the stored texture maps and reload, but what I do is I start with an empty file as my preference (so it is not storing all the junk textures for Casual Simon and various other textures) load only the figure I need and the textures I need for that one render, do my renders, save the file, close it, and start again with a new clean file. If the texture maps are large and many and the figure is large to begin with, Poser7 seems to forget things, not just the bump maps, but sometimes even the morphs if you are putting different morphs on and off a figure. In my case I thought it was because I have an old lumpencomputer;-) I think yours is new and fresh though, so it must be Poser 7 itself. Rani is incredible--her face looks just like the carved temple goddesses, especially her lips. I already have ideas for her;-)
missgrin
Gorgeous portrait....
Kinouk
Love her face. Outstanding! hugz
rebelmommy
She's beautiful!
mystmaiden
she's lovely!
Kartika
What a gorgeous portrait!!!
Burpee
She's fantastic! Love her accessories and such a beautiful face.
awadissk
excellent work
gypsyangel
She is breathtakingly beautiful...you really have outdone yourself with this girl... Whew!!!
eportscreations
Beautiful character work and an excellent render!
beowlar
She is beautiful !!!!!
jwiest
Oh wow...total beauty Meike!
larparmit
superb work!
3Dillusions
she is absolutely gorgeous love her lips very different thats for sure, good luck with the bump maps with Poser 7.
ilona
Stunning artwork
FS
Wonderful portrait!!!Very expressive character and fantastic lighting!!!!
MajinBoo
Outstanding job on the jewelry just amazing on how real it looks!
spermuline
Incredible!!!