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 (32)
giorgio_2004
Very, very good! The lights are superb, and the skin texture is out of this worls. The touch of the eye through the fingers is very artistic!
LudyMelltSekher
Wonderful and Fantastic portrait. Superbly done!! Congratulations!! A million stars****Happy weekend.Luminous blesing.Ludy
Iceshark39
Spectacular image! Beautiful posework and shadows. Is he single? Heehee ;-)
crazywaitress
you do a portrait......i can't believe it.......does torture a pc doesn't it....and of course those wonderful lights that go with everything......good job
missgrin
Gorgeous portrait....
pixels29
excellent render !
flaviok
Belissima obra, aplausos (5)
Bossie_Boots
Basil looks amazing his eyes are fantastic i need to check these lights out though they look awesome superb work as always !!!!
MajinBoo
Very nice potrait! I got to admit AtlantiStyle has done what few merchants can do get to buy a male texture and morph that isn't a monster. Andre is one amazing character is more than welcome to join all the V3 characters filling my runtime
gypsyangel
Oh, he is gorgeous!!
rebelmommy
Ohhh he is luscious!
e-brink
Excellent posing and very good lighting!
lwperkins
What ladies? I forget...ooo Basil! He looks like you found a Russian model for a photoshoot, your light is perfection!
drifterlee
Gorgeous! Fantastic job on that hair, too!
fabiana
outstanding image, looked at it for minutes, is so perfect... thanks!
Angelwave
superb portrait5+
RubyT
OMG, he's hunkilicious for sure!! Are you sure you haven't snuck in a photo on us as this is sooooooooooo realistic!!! Awesome work on him and of course those lights of yours are so stunning!!!
drcebolleta
Superb lights and textures!!! Great work!!!
Igolochka
Wow, great work on the character! He came out very realistic and he is very handsome man:))) Lightning is just superb!
odile
great lights, pose and texture!
PsychoNaut
That hair really brings this one out, great eye too!
tabala
Very convincing male! And of course very convincing light ;) Fabulous work, dear!
achmed2
Fantastic portrait!!!! Great work!!!
elfin12u
Geez........he's got everything but fingerprints, this is incredible.
theconqueror
Superb image...well done...
Fredy
Yes... I miss the ladies ;) His skin tone is magnificent!
RocksLady
nice character, very well done
MagnoliaMoonElf
OUTSTANDING
eportscreations
Excellent work SaintFox! The detail you captured is perfect.
Burpee
Wonderful one!