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)
angelbearzs
wow she is very sexy and awesome secne!!!:)
eekdog
most awesome indeed, you mentioned all the credits for this fine piece except where did you get the pool balls.?
gypsyangel
OH!!! She looks magnificent!! :D Right into favorites...And that look?? Oh my...she's so saucy. :)
ericfarris
Asheni is gorgeous with those leather outfits, so excellent Meike, sure, she'll love her! Hugsssss
PsychoNaut
Lovely! Great how she's interacting with the frame. What a face and heh heh - snazzy clothes! Love to see her playin' pool
lwperkins
Green suits her too--and 14 is lucky seven twice, so I can see her with that number;-) As for the cards, I would just do the court cards--I love the old designs! (And 52 is way too many;-) And once I can figure out how to use Poser seven, I swear I am buying your light set! All your lights are superb!
tabala
It's unbelievable- even the white gives a contrast on white here. Brilliant olouring :) She really is fresh and swee as peppermint- You did right to choose her :)
cole4965
Wow!!! Very beautiful! Love it!
FrankT
Yup, minty fresh :)
camera
Oh please, Meike! I'm having enough of a problem to find adjectives to compliment your beautiful renders with pool balls let alone 52 cards in the deck, too. This green looks delicious. Yummy!
Dragontales
awesome. Love that lace up on the leg.
jwiest
That red hair works great with all the green. Magnificent! Maybe just the face cards? :D looks hopeful LOL
richardson
LOL That's one helluva closet you have there, Meike...
HADCANCER
wow, I really like this one, not that I did not like the others but this one is in my top 5.... see i did not say 15...grin
linkdink
I am loving the hair. The frame is always a great element.
Danceswithroos
Apple green and firey red! Awesome combo fantastic work!
Fredy
I can't praise this series enough... worship So excellent!
mauk
Excellent image!!!!Great render...bravo
Rainbowgirl
It is amazing to see how you produce such a row of masterpieces as your pool series is! Could get one down if it wasn't that beautiful... g I love this #14. Do I love it more than the others? Hard to say, but green definitely is one of my colors and Asheni is a stunner!!!
Draftshop
Excellent piece of work, well done!
Surama
Great...great...great...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Burpee
Hubby loves her outfit :) The green and white is fresh, like you say...she has a perky, fun look :)
awadissk
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!
rixster
Gorgeous character and superb work with the frame - excellent!!!
chimera46
I hate to repeat myself but I'm really liking this series of yours, great work!
stukes
Great outfit. Love it!!!!
Robert0921
Nice one. Love the green PVC.
DonaKuka
Stunning!!! Just love everything about this image even the green tones. :) Most excellent work!!!
Monuli
Die rot-gr Kombo :-). Sche Idee, und wieder ein klasse Bild Meike. Vg Uli
MajinBoo
It may not be easy being green but this is real easy on my eyes!