LARIN-ART

MoonGirl

2011-11-15T08:22:00.000-08:00

Painting of roses

2011-11-01T07:32:00.000-07:00

Cinderella

2011-10-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

I wanted to find a text Cinderella. Caught Brothers Grimm. I have read their text- it's really scary . If someone would have to film it, then only David Lynch. So I had to build on the classic story - without blood and without punctured eyes.

Illustration with an oil. Video.

2011-10-17T11:08:00.000-07:00

Видеоурок с комментариями.

Aphrodite and a giant orange. Cover of book. Oil, paper.

2011-10-14T03:59:00.000-07:00

Rabbit in Wanderland. W.I.P. video

2011-10-11T07:56:00.001-07:00

Fantazy Girl with an Ork Head (work in progress video)

2011-10-04T23:15:00.000-07:00

Actually I don't like violence. But in fantasy world where lives my fantasy Girl, violence is necessary. Evil Orks around!

work in progress video 26mb 17m

Photo Blog

2011-09-12T02:54:00.000-07:00

Every day I take a pictures. So I decided it wold be nice to show them in separate blog.
Welcome! Every day new pics. It's true. http://everydaynewpics.blogspot.com/

Girl & PC. Work in Progress

2011-08-05T08:49:00.000-07:00

Portrait of my mum. Work in progress

2011-07-22T10:34:00.000-07:00

Portrait of the young girl

2011-07-04T06:41:00.000-07:00

This is a portrait of the young girl painted by me on a canvas. Oh I really missed this antiant technic! Smell of the wet paint and the other things...

Flying Dreams

2011-06-22T11:34:00.000-07:00

Of course we can fly, but always doubt it. And only dreaming and dreaming...

SPY Girl

2011-06-19T06:28:00.000-07:00

Once my daughter ask me to buy a plastic gun for her.

«Why girls should always play with the dolls. Why guns and cars for boys only?» she said.

So I’m going and buying two guns and we play gangsters every evening for a week. Soon daughter came back to her dolls and forgot about playing with a boy’s toys. But for me our games served as an inspiration to take my digital brush.

Heroes of Hellas 2: Olympia

2011-06-04T08:56:00.000-07:00

I am pleased to present you second part of the game about ancient Greece. I worked on a concept design, pictures, characters, 3D animation . Link

Dreamscape

2011-03-09T08:02:00.001-08:00

First, it was created not by me. It was created by my subconscious.I can not say that I did not participate in the work. My work is exploration the colors, shapes and feelings. My work is a game. And I wish that my audience would be continued this exploration and will find in my painting things for themselves.

Персокон Persocon

2010-11-03T04:22:00.000-07:00

Лицо Персокона имеет вполне реальный прототип.

Face of Person has a very real prototype.

Портреты, Portrets

2010-11-03T03:56:00.000-07:00

Лицо самая сложная часть человека:)Одного взгляда в глаза достаточно, что бы увидеть суть. На втором месте - руки. Когда я не уверен в том что я правильно прочитал человека по лицу - я смотрю на его руки.Они никогда не обманывают.

Face the most difficult part of the person:) One look in his eyes enough to see the point. In the second place - human hands. When I'm not sure that I correctly read person's face I look at his hands.They never cheat.

Wor(L)d of Aphrodite

2010-10-03T10:43:00.000-07:00

This is my last digital art work in surreal style. Aphrodite - Goddess of love and beauty and I have tried to express it .

2010-09-18T08:11:00.000-07:00

http://www.wix.com/maxlarin/maxlarin

Fairy Tale Illustrations

2010-09-10T12:27:00.000-07:00

Winnie the Pooh

2010-05-04T09:48:00.001-07:00

Actually, I love bears. And especially Winnie the Pooh. I've read this book when I was 21, and noticed that this book was special. It has something cosmic. There are my own associations on this pictures of course, but may be they will be interesting for somebody else.

Greeting Tree

2010-01-18T04:43:00.000-08:00

Briareus "Hundred-Handed Ones,"

2009-11-11T09:34:00.000-08:00

He was figure in an archaic stage of Greek mythology, giant of incredible strength and ferocity, even superior to that of the Titans whom he helped overthrow.

Бриарей - в древнегреческой мифологии сторукий и пятидесятиголовый великан, сын Урана и Геи, один из гекатонхейров, вставший во время бунта братьев на сторону олимпийских богов и спасший самого Зевса.

Prometheus

2009-10-24T01:17:00.000-07:00

He was a champion of human-kind known for his wily intelligence, who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mortals. Zeus then punished him for his crime by having him bound to a rock while a great eagle ate his liver every day only to have it grow back to be eaten again the next day. Do you think it's justice?

Прометей. Фигура противоречивая. Ведь это он создал людей.
И его же потом к скале!

Accountant and Tailor

2009-09-07T02:59:00.000-07:00

The illustration was made for american magazine "Brandweek". There are two characters, accountant and tailor at the table. "What wrong with our faces? They are little bit strange today" : think they.
Иллюстрация была зделана для американского журнала "Brandweek". Бухгалтер и портной выбирают новое платье для своей любимой Барби :)

2009-09-06T05:20:00.000-07:00

Афродита, несомненно, одета не по дрескоду.
Мы то ее знаем как закоренелую нудистку.
Но на этой картине у нее задача несколько другая. Она заточена под требования конкретной казуальной игры, в которой она ,скорее ,Белоснежка, а Афродита - творческий псевдоним.
My Aphrodite a little bite dressed. I know it is strange for her, but you see some animals around make her alike Artemide. This fact could not her to was born from a cockleshell.
Picture was executed for casual game about Heroes of Hellas.

"live" painting

2009-09-05T06:42:00.000-07:00

Давно не брал в руки "живых красок" и тогда они устали ждать и сами взялись за меня.
Many many years ago I gave up "live" painting and now I fill that miss real (not digital canvas and oil).

Agent of Moon

2009-08-10T12:34:00.001-07:00

Children aren't always want to be nice and obedient. Sometimes they want to be spys and secret agents:)

Odyssey

2009-08-09T12:28:00.001-07:00

Odyssey, clever guy,who cheated Troy's guys with the wooden horse, you know. This character was created for casual game about Heroes of Hellas.

Charlie Sheen

2009-04-11T03:58:00.000-07:00

Interesting actor as to me. So I deside to draw his portret.

Witch Location

2009-04-06T05:48:00.000-07:00

One of locations of quest game and Z-brush model for it.

Heaven is watching you

2009-03-14T05:11:00.000-07:00

It work was made for surreal competition by NVArt company. I really like surrealism, so I was painting it work with pleasure.

AURORA W.I.P.

2009-03-14T04:52:00.000-07:00

Step 1 - The sketch

My Character Astrologer Aurora not only believes in astrology but she predicts and even influences events in her cosy fantasy world. U may agree with me, that it is much more interesting to create your own future, than waiting for someone’s execution of predictions.
I execute sketch with a pencil on a paper. «Alive» stroke is always more expressive than a cyber one. (pic 01)

After that I do the trick as I usually do: I import my scanned sketch in Photoshop and edit with Levels (Ctrl +L) for getting clear image. Next, I set the sketch layer in Multiply mode and
add 2 empty layers under the layer with my dear astrologer, one for lights and the other for the background. Actually we always have the layer background but it locked and it is not very comfortable.
Layer background I fill with a brown color and start working on the shape of figure. My main objective now is to add volume in highlights and lighter tones (pic 1)

Step 2 – Colorizing

Now it is time to start working with a color. First it would be good to take some colors for creating color tone of entire picture. It might be done somewhere in the corner of canvas in a separate layer. After that my brown background starts to fill color spots (with my help of course). Now it is important just to decide on color scheme of the whole picture. (pic 2)

Step 3 – Painting
On a next stage I usually start work on details, especially on eyes. I don’t know why but I always start to draw with eyes (It’s my own way). (pic 3) Here it is a lot of work! Usually for painting I use brushes with spatter of Photoshop brush set or make my own. I won’t tell you about long hard work on my image with traditional ways of painting but tell about nontraditional ones.
For example I need realistic texture of eye. I make the picture with somebody’s eye or find it in e-net, put it in new layer on a top layer list and set him in overlay mode. Next I little transform it with a transform tool (Ctrl+T). (pic4) and merge with main layer. Now I can make new layer for continue to making highlights and so on. That is very comfortable to do each separate thing in a new layer. (pic5) Same way you can use for making all things that should have rich structure. But if you set imagination on a first place you can do what you want.

Good Luck
Max Larin
WWW. LARIN-ART.COM

Girl Astrologer

2009-03-14T04:29:00.000-07:00

There is the artwork in fantasy style
I've written this Image for quest-game. I know that girl's head too big but I like to distort anatomical proportion.
It is interesting for me to know what do you think about my Astrologer Girl. Please critique!

Аutomatic drawing.

2009-01-17T09:17:00.000-08:00

I call that "automatic drawing" . Artist surrealists named this style automatism . Wach it and do the same:)

SteamGirl

2009-01-07T12:26:00.000-08:00

I've been hard working on my picture about SteamGirl. And here it is a little piece of my work on face.
Вообщем, работа кипит

Праздник Св. Николая

2008-12-20T09:25:00.000-08:00

Люблю этот праздник. Леплю сам печенья и проверяю утром носки

Природа

2008-12-20T09:18:00.000-08:00

Накануне ночью приснился мне сон о снеге и зиме. Просыпаюсь - ух ты! Получилось. За окном - зима.

Конкурсы

2008-12-20T07:34:00.000-08:00

Конкурсы - это здорово. Где, как не в таких баталиях можно оттянуться в плане порисовать, что в голову лезет....
SteamPunk- это за рубежом
Avatar - это тоже))
Мои в них ветки. Заходите, не стесняйтесь...

Фотоохота. Человек пьющий

2008-10-13T05:53:00.000-07:00

Фотокамеру я ношу с собой всегда. Жертвами моих съемок становятся порой на первый взгляд, совершенно невинные сюжеты. Возможно секрет их интересности для меня заключается в том что на самом деле я вижу не то что получается на фото а абстрактную картину, подобную "черному квадрату",
В этом сюжете черный квадрат еще и что-то пьет.

Girl with the bear

2008-09-28T10:04:00.000-07:00

Sketch for the picture

Moon and Mars

2008-09-28T03:53:00.000-07:00

Он и она - Марс и Луна
I want to show you my fantasy book cover illustration. It was quiet challenging for me to do illustration about relationship between man and woman in space :) And I decided to execute it in allegoric style. There is more of space for the personal associations of reader.
The author was satisfied not too much because he saw his book little different. But publisher adopted my point of view and took this picture… for another book.

Sketches for the books

2008-09-26T08:14:00.000-07:00

I’ve made couple sketches for book covers.

Nostalgia about cats

2008-09-25T07:22:00.000-07:00

When I was a student, I used to drawing people in cats incarnation. (It was my little invention).
I did it just on the streets of my city. My crazy idea was quiet helpful for me and I made a little money for my student’s sandwiches.

Идея рисовать людей в инкарнации котов возникла достаточно давно, и, на сколько я знаю, никто этого не делал раньше . И позже, тоже. Может быть потому что это слишком уж не глобалистическая идея, Макдональдсами она подхвачена не была и потому по сей день остается эксклюзивом.

Раньше, еще будучи студентом, я рисовал прямо на улице. Уличные художники, рисовавшие портреты и шаржи сначала хихикали над моей вывеской и кое кто из них даже сам рисовался у меня. Вообщем то началось все с того, что первое пиво я заработал, рисуя соседей по портретам. Но потом моими котами народ заинтересовался и коллеги портретисты начали на меня поглядывать косо, мол всю рыбу им своими котами распугал. Но я не слишком из за этого расстраивался. Два дня в неделю, как часы, я сидел под старинным фонарем со стопкой бумаги и восковой пастелью. Что бы коллеги не обижались, приходилось их угощать пивом. Народ рисовавшийся у меня был самый разнообразный. От откровенных фриков до серьезных бизнесменов без тени улыбки на лице. Запомнилась одна бабушка, которая умоляла нарисовать ее кота в образе человека. «Он такой умный, все понимает»: говорила она, приносила его фотографии Ну прямо как в анекдоте. Но я почему то сдрейфил. Побоялся, что если я ее кота в человека реинкарнирую, бедная совсем с катушек съедет. Вот что значит одиночество. Как говорится, «позвоните своим родителям» Потом наступала осень. Сидеть было холодно, а переходить на водку не хотелось и с уличных художников я ушел. Теперь вот тут сижу, в теплом интернете.

Alice and the Glass Bird

2008-09-14T02:26:00.000-07:00

There is my new picture about Alice. I know that girl executed too expressive, but it was interesting to me to make some distortions for this character. First was background. It was painted for casual quest video game ("Jaibo-games co".). Then idea with Alice came.

Однажды уж я брался за тему Алисы. Да вот решил снова вернуться. В этой работе намешено всего, в том числе и карандашная и акварельная графика. Возможно стилистически это работу немного разбивает, но и драйву, мне кажется, от этого больше.
Это уже Алиса другая, не Кэрроловская, уже побитая изрядно жизнью в стране чудес.

Арт-студия "Cвитовид"

2008-09-07T05:03:00.000-07:00

Похоже, что я возобновляю занятия
по рисунку и живописи со взрослыми
и детьми. Так, что если что , милости
прошу к нашему "шалашу" ;)

It's going to be printed

2008-09-04T08:58:00.000-07:00

Latvian publishing house took my picture for the cover of book
http://breg.livejournal.com/196752.html

Nokia 3110 :)

2008-09-01T05:03:00.000-07:00

I was cleaning my messy room today morning and found my old mobile phone Nokia 3110 :) (whith my design)

Alien Girl

2008-08-25T13:26:00.000-07:00

This picture was executed for a mobile company. But I didn’t like this image, because girl was too correct. So I decided to give her some crazy changes. It calmed my feelings.

EARElefant

2008-08-25T05:16:00.000-07:00

I've done this man and thought:’It will be nice if my man has elefant’s heads instead ears.

My English Teacher.

2008-08-18T04:16:00.000-07:00

There is my English teacher, Nick.
He likes the travels and he usually lives in each country for 1 year, no more. He’s really good English teacher and fortunately I met him while he was living in Ukraine:)

Goose

2008-05-03T05:13:00.001-07:00

Sometimes I think with my hands only (without any brains).
These picture those kind of my artworks. I named it «Goose». If it reminds you something else , don’t hesitate tell me about it.

heroes of hellas

2007-11-26T09:41:00.000-08:00

I've 3 or 4 month ago finished my work on casual gamedesign .
I don't like some things in this game, but I proud of some pieces of concept art.
Game's elements really crazy:)
I was wondered, when saw,that our game is in top list for a 4 week. Who knows, what kind of interests inside our players's mind
(I love them;)

Hallo there!

2007-11-24T11:26:00.001-08:00

Some weeks ago I’ve found my old notepad with some artpieces inside it.
They were so interesting for me, so I desided take simple notepad especially for graphics experiments like that)