[1] In the 1980s, as a student, he made a cycle of scraperboard illustrations for J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings,[2] which in 1990 was awarded a diploma of the All-Russian competition of works for children.

[1][3] Later he created illustrations for a collection of Tolkien's fairy tales (including Farmer Giles of Ham and Smith of Wootton Major) and poems.

[3] In 1981, after holding the first rock music festival in the Urals, Korotich established friendly relations with the poet Ilya Kormiltsev.

[4][5] In 1992, Vyacheslav Butusov, a friend from his student days, invited him to take part in the design of the album Foreign Land by the group Nautilus Pompilius, a successor to Urfin Juice.

[1] Since 2006, Korotich has been working on the Zuza fairy tale series for preschoolers, where he writes both prose and poetry, and creates the illustrations.