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 (25)
shadownet
Luv it!
mikeerson
ok rebel, I won't call you darling, cutie pie. I like the different colored nails.
rebelmommy
Ohhh I love it!
StratoCumulus
They grow up so fast...
felinx
Bel eclairage et joli personnage :)
lwperkins
Hehe, I think she makes a uh, "very cute" bad fairy too;-) (It's so hard not to say darling;-)
shamstar
Will I be in trouble for saying she is cute? Good job.
fabiana
That is the face, my face some mornings... not for the cuteness... for the expression LOL LOL LOL thank youuuuuu Meike, I love this one!!!!!
WarpedHalo
She's still cute, LOL ... what an awesome 'tude she is showing ... great pic :D
EdAB
Great job on the lights and pose.
zil2008
She is so adorable and cute. Love the attitude and Kitties.
RGUS
That's what I like... pure bitch!!!... but somehow... no matter what you do with this Doll... you just can't pull it off... she'll always be cute... just can't help it! A Gem of an image Meike.
Karth
Very...ähhh... Cute ? lol....Nice Expression and Render.
qrud
Very lovely
Rainbowgirl
Cute and more! Awww! grin I really like her attitude!
Zazou
Love the style !
gypsyangel
Oh, I'm sorry, I think I'd still have to call her Darling...because she's just so incredibly cute!!! Every once in a while we just have to succumb to cute... :)
shipmanjonathan
Wondeful work! I like it!
scifibabe
Love this sassy verison of her. Too cute. She just can't help but ooze cuteness.
missgrin
Fantastic pose and expression...
webdancer
Excellent!
Thetis
fantastic work
Monuli
Tolle Details und klasse Render Meike. Die 5 verschiedenen Fingernägel sind toll. ~ Uli
kasalin
Very beautiful image, textures and render !!! Klasse :) 5*
eportscreations
A good effort Meike, but I think she still is to cute to be bad. A great image and very creative too.