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)
Raindroptheelf
I keep my mouth zipped Meike ;)
gypsyangel
Since I'm not testing her can I guess?? :)
disneyfabfive
Great image, I'm guessing miki3
destinys_in_the_art
ooo! ooo!!......i know!! ...i know!!!......grins
rebelmommy
She is beautiful! And you are right, you can see its the same woman just aged and aged nicely! I love her.. I suspect I know her base figure but since I stare at the base figures so much I feel it would be unfair for me to guess.. but I will say that you have done an incredible job here!
Smitthms
Miki 3 is my guess... & she looks awesome. ~Thomas
StratoCumulus
Masterful morphs. Looks like Miki 3.
richardson
Hah! That was mean... LOL But I would have trouble seeing Miki..
twingo
I have to agree with most this must be a miki3 character, looks really great.
Seaview123
She's a great looking character!
lwperkins
Just beautiful and so realistic, I like her makeup as well!
julesart
She is beautiful! I was going towards Miki 3 but that is because of her Asian features. I am guessing A4.
shadowhawk2zero
I will guess Miki 3 also. Great pic and you are right it does look like the first one is a teenager and the other is maybe in her late 20's.
Grubber
Actually, the thing I noticed is that she's a stereogram. If you cross your eyes to make the two images become three, the one in the middle becomes 3 Dimensional. I assume you intended that. Startling, once you get her to pop.
Dirtylooks
my guess would be the not so obvious S4. Either way a very beautiful Asian character.
bodo_56
I know one thing: she's gorgeous!
anitalee
Lovely
fabiana
For me is Miki3 BUT knowing you, Meike ;)... she could be Antonia :) The key is in the ears :)
JSGraphics
Awesome work! With how elongated the neck is I'd say Miki 3.
kobaltkween
very pretty! i'm guessing Antonia from the ears and brow, but i could easily be wrong.
SaintFox
And so we have: disneyfabfive, smitthms, StratoCumulus, twingo and shadowhawk2zero who guessed right first. Yep, it's Miki 3 and yes, I modified her ears a bit, especially the lobes (makes it easier to use jewelry). You first 5 will get a message with a download link as soon as Youkiko is ready to go!
beowlar
She is beautiful!!!!
missgrin
She is gorgeous...
HADCANCER
They look like twins to me.
stukes
Nice work on this one.