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 (28)
RGUS
Now that is really scary.... how the hell did you know I was doing my image.... I need to record this... because... well.... just because!
SaintFox
Haha... as I said, two souls... ;o)
mylemonblue
We are all connected in unseen ways. Beautiful work. :D
Tamela.J.
WHOA!! Thats pretty freaky you both did same pose!!! I absolutely love the materials!! Gorgeous pinup!!!
anitalee
Excellent
STEVIEUKWONDER
That is a pleasant coincidence I hope, after visiting Deane's gallery. What a beautiful finish you have achieved. I am slowly learning how to get some reflective surfaces to work, but in no way with the expertise of you. Very fine work indeed. Excellent! Steve :o)
Fredy
Ohlala - telepathy can do wierd things... better be careful you two... LOL Fantastic shiny sexy image!!! :)
Raychel3d
Wow - very impressed - also noticed the coincidence of Deane's gallery image! - Not sure which I prefer now - what a conundrum!
Skip1871
Great minds, that's all I can say ... :) both pics are dramatic and beautifully done! Same inspiration source...similar yet subtly different end results.. interesting to see how essentially the same beginning shot was interpreted by two different artists! :)
missgrin
Excellent image, great pose...
rixster
Superb image - its such a memorable pose from the movie and that outfit and the lighting enhances it perfectly - nice work!!!
Danceswithroos
Very shinny and curvy love 'em both. Fantastic work!
tabala
Two complete images what You two have done. One a bit weird, one decorative and shiny. I am in need which one is better ^^ I love yours because of it's well known clearness. the shiny look and the hair (seems to be by 3dream :D) work great together :O) Lucky client! ^^
linkdink
Looks great, I love coincidences like this!
SaintFox
I really hope that everybody got me right: This is NO challange, it was just the scary situation that we both had exactly the same pose in mind (and created it ourselves) that made me post this!
JOELGLAINE
Same inspiration yeilded similiar, but different results. Both are good, But your's is shinier. MMMmmm shiney!
ArtByMel
Geeze, talk about deja vu. Both of them are absolutely wonderful, excellent work.
artroland
Well, I'll be derned. LOL. Very well done. And I think the two of you need to stop telepathically communicating. Hehehe!
UweMattern
LOL these kind of poses seems to become popular....Love the gragic look in this one! ~Uwe
webdancer
Dejavu! Does that mean something has changed in the Matrix!? Excellent!
ericfarris
Telepathic indeed!!! Bravo Meike, so excellent pose!!!!!
Monuli
Puuuh, hab ich ein Glk das ich noch Starwars geguckt habe ;-)). Hoffe das ich es morgen posten kann. Tolles Bild Meike - geflt mir super. V
GOLDILOCKSUK
I saw Deanes work first so I hopped over here to take a peek strange telepathy you two have lol! Most excellent work well done :) Cathy xoxoxo
DonaKuka
What a situation...but it happened something similar to me some time ago. Anyway... I just love this work of your !!! Perfection...in pose, reflections, render, lighting...Just perfection!!! BIG V ~Hugz~
awadissk
Very nice excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wishes3d
Wonderful pic! Excellent work!
ilona
HS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! pretty freaking scarry indeed hehehehehehe see? I know what i am talking about heehehhehehe loved it!
mikeerson
This is cool - you and rgus having the same picture shape... I've come accross things simular. I think its really strange when you are looking at uploads and you have one after another on the same subject with the same idea, kinda like this... You can let the secret out now after all these years, You and rgus saw the Matrix togother and but really loved this scene... thanks for pointing this out. Rgus is one of my favorite artists. I have not seen that picture... his bike though, makes me think of a man - I thought that's what you were getting at. good job on your image tooo.