Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

Concerto for trumpet, trombone, and French horn

Found myself at the NCAA MVB men’s volleyball final. UCLA VS Hawaii 28:26 in the first set. Hawaii won the second set 33:31. In the third – UCLA 25:21. In the fourth 25:21 UCLA champions

Seems like I’m watching volleyball for the first time

#ncaamvb

Listening to a podcast from Libo Libo, the episode about schizophrenia. In medical terms, hallucinations and delusions are considered positive syndromes, as qualitatively new features that were not present before the illness.

Recommend a vector editor for MacOS that is a) free and b) fast.

UPDATE: The latest Inkscape is very snappy, especially if you switch the UI theme to Minwaita. Eventually, I do everything in it.

For raster graphics, I barely found Krita, which is great. GIMP (raster) and Inkscape (vector) are ridiculously slow, making them unusable (this is on an i9 32Gb). From a vector program, I need nothing more than smooth operation and most basic features – lines, splines, ellipses, layers, guides. Specifically, I would like to have a simple way to perform perspective transformation of arbitrary shapes. Like, create a drawing of a tile on a plane, and stretch it into a trapezoid. Inkscape would be suitable if it weren’t so sluggish. Maybe someone knows a magic way to make it faster (and GIMP too). Although it’s clear that the slowdown is due to GTK/Cairo, which traditionally lags on Mac.

Watched The Banshees of Inisherin. A powerful movie.

P.S. Sorry, but Brendan Gleeson has some alien-like ears that stretch down to his lower lip

my 19th painting and the 2nd in portraiture. Don’t really like the result, so I have finalized the painting earlier than it needed to be done due to the loss of interest

, but let it stay here for consistency

I’m delving into portraits. I was told to choose anyone except relatives, otherwise I’ll get beaten up 😉

Rain until the end of the day

my 18th attempt at oil painting

Why don’t they make a notch for the nose in absolutely every such cup? No attention to details at all!