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 (33)
RGUS
Superb Meike... goytta love that hair!
crender Online Now!
beautiful!!!!
leeannecure
this is awesome & I adore that hair its a shame it only works in poser 5*,s
lwperkins
Instantly a favorite--such a wonderful pose!
MKeyes
Pure Purdy!
momof4rugrats
terrific!!!
Raindroptheelf
Beautiful work Meike, I so love the pose and the hair and the character and all of it. It all works perfectly in this Image.
Artus1971
Nice scene, superb render, well done
pizzaface2101
I am into Ballet so this image definitely caught my attention...thank you for allowing us to view it.
KaiArt
Excellent work
jartz
Lovely image, and I definitely like the lighting on this one.
SIGMAWORLD
Beautiful work! Well done!
drifterlee
Beautiful render!
anitalee
Excellent
twingo
Awesome image, looks really perfect.
jclP
excellent pose et render
alessimarco
Superb!!!
Babajaga
great image, pose and light
RodolfoCiminelli
A wonderful and fantastic realization......!!!! Splendid pose and creative lighting work.....!!!
mikeerson
It looks great. My kid in me wants you to replace "the" with Breaking into your title - lol..sorry, what can I say, the kid in me types better - lol
boggers
Very beautiful image - I love that hair!
louly
Gorgeous :) That hair adds a lot to the flow and graphic quality of the image. Love it!
Faery_Light
Fantastic work!
scifibabe
Awesome pose. Love that exotic hair. Really cool flow and style.
kobaltkween
just beautiful. i'm still not sure why the only "shadow" is ambient occlusion from the toe tip, but the lighting is has great highlights. the skin looks excellent as usual, and i love what you did with the hair.
HADCANCER
Your render brought to my mind(what little I have left) a different song And the years rolled slowly past And I found myself alone Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends I found myself further and further from my home And I guess I lost my way There were oh so many roads I was living to run and running to live Never worried about paying or even how much I owed Moving eight miles a minute for months at a time Breaking all of the rules that would bend I began to find myself searchin' Searching for shelter again and again Against the wind A little something against the wind I found myself seeking shelter Against the wind
akulla
Superb lightiing and angle.
missgrin
Awesome, nice pose...
Zazou
WOW ! I love this !!
FS
Absolutely fantastic work!!!!