She is Krystal, though the name Sumi-chan was self-applied at the age of 13, and has stuck like glue. Four years later, she's attending college, and struggling through life like any other rabid 17-year-old scorpio fangirl, with a thirst for acknowledgement -- just at accelerated speed. She can be found on AIM as Salr Sun, e-mailed as krystal at soul-mirror dot net, or writing over at sakubun. She lives at soul-mirrorNET.

V. 5 of Special K features Sohma Kureno from the manga Fruits Basket. (the poor boy was tragically cut during the transition from manga to anime) very plain and simple, designed using photoshop 7 in about half-an-hour, using a manga scan provided by Sakura, with color added by me, using photoshop's airbrush. Fonts used are Lithos and Giddyup. Originally intended for the fic blog, I decided I liked it too much to use there, and made adjustments as such. Part of the Fruits Basket Blog Marathon.

As If! : Megatokyo : RPG World : Saturnalia : Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki

1 : 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8 : 9 : 10
11 : 12 : 13 : 14 : 15 : 16 : 17

Reading

• The Last Unicorn - Peter S. Beagle

• Inu Yasha
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Cowboy Bebop
• Shojou Kakumei Utena

• Under Rug Swept - Alanis Morissette
• To Whom It May Concern - Lisa Marie Presely
• Random JPop
• O - Cirque du Soliel soundtrack

• Chameleon - CCS (ExK)
• Fifty-Two Pick UP - CCS

• Kyrie - MV, the last unicorn

• The Road Between - AMV, Kikyou-centric, Inu Yasha
• Always - AMV, Inu/Kagome, Inuyasha
• Obvious - AMV, Syaoran-centric, CCS
• Divine Stretch - webcomic
• Kouga/Ayame Side Story to Scarlet
• Website Collective

• Kouga/Ayame Video

www.1001freefronts.com

A site with so many text fonts it's ridiculous. Thank you Athey, for showing me this. God, I lvoe Justin and Athey so much, they show me SO many cool things. ::sparkles::

Maybe I can find some really good fonts on here...ZStuff for the Divine Stretch logo, my layouts, maybe even one for the Pretty with a Pistol Logo...

Kureno crowed aloud at 10:04 a.m. --

Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Ainiko-tachi posters.

Kureno crowed aloud at 06:32 p.m. --

Sunday, October 26, 2003

Okay, so I promised I would write more later.

So school is getting to me. I'm doing well in Art, Film, Literature, and to a cetrian extent, projects. However, I'm ridiculously behind in CG. It sickens me. I cried in front of my classmates on Friday, because I was overomce by built up stress, and having failed the CG midterm to no fault of my own. You'd cry too were you in my position...

Backtracking a bit, I went to see two movies this week. Both were for extra credit for Film class, to make up for that quiz the whole of the class BOMBED last week. I saw "Mystic River" and "The Station Agent." Both were good in there own rights, but I think I enjoyed myself more when I went to see The Station Agent. The onyl place it was playing was in the nearest big city (which is a 40-minute drive from my house), in a small old 1-screen theater from the 1950's. It was a small independant film, and only playing there because it won three awards at the sundance film festival. But really, the atmosphere was just incredibly. The theater was old, the ticket-booth was old, and they were going to be showing the original "Addams Family" at midnight all this weekend. I went with Benson, because I don't drive in the city after dark, alone. It was nice having someone with me. . .

Athough, this brings me back around to Friday. So, I fail the mid-term, and that makes my day just absolutley horrible... Then Alex BEGS and PLEADS for him and the guys to come over. So, after so much pleading I can't stand it anymore, I say it's okay. But then, do you know what they did? Okay, so Andrew gave his Girlfriend my Screen-name so she could IM him at my place if she needed to. So she sends an IM, and THEY ende dup IMing eachother for atleast a half an hour. BEFORE said IM conversation, Andrew asks me if she can call here. Naturally, my reaction is "What? No." So Alex is then like "It's okay buddy, we'll leave you alone" and ushers me and Benson out fo the room, and then whispers at us to try not to RUIN it for Andrew, because he finally is associating with someone in the STATE. THEN, after that converstaion, Andrew gets all mopey, because of said conversation, and also having "broken up" with his internet girlfriend. the FUCK? I'm sorry, but it WASN'T A RELATIONSHIP IF YOU NEVER EMT FACE TO FACE. You can have internet friends...but a GIRLFRIEND? FUCK. Then ALEX proceeds to be mopey over both the Shirley thing AND the new Stephanie thing, and CALLS Stephanie about 3 times through-out the night. And Benson, ya know he's the sensible oen of the bunch, much as we have in common, I'm starting to get outright sick of him.

I hearby anounce I am going on HIATUS from all my Real-Life Relationships until further notice. I want NOTHING to do with any of them for a while. (Please note: this does NOT include Liz, or Kelsey, my two close gal-pals. I NEED my gal-pals. also, this doth not include my internet friend-base, obviously. ::waves to Hibari, Eve, Ilana, Smiko, Ryan, K-chan, Gabe, Ram, Kimuu-chan, and Ruka::).

So yes, Life Royally Sucks for the Sumi. On the bright side though, my writing website is nearly up and functional. Eve's letting me use a layout she designed and never used for version 6 of Special K. Also, as soon as I get the new layout, I'm moving over to Diaryland. I'm getting to the point where I want to write more personal stuff, and I have the password protection over at Diaryland.

Family party tonight. Not so bad, but everything echoes in this house, more than it did in the old house. Craziness. Sumis head needs a break..

Off to read Hamlet for Literature class. Then sleep.

Kureno crowed aloud at 11:31 p.m. --

Friday, October 24, 2003

School is getting to me. Seriously. I don't know how much more I can take. I'm constantly tipping back and forth on a metaphorical scale, where one side is all worried about failing, and school, and la dee da bullshit, while the other half of me doesn't give a rats ass. I can't count how many times I've just wanted to bash my head against the desk, cry, and give up. This usually results in a non-productive day, and I'm just ANOTHER day behind. It grows worse with every day. I need to talk to Royal as soon as possible, and try to find out if there's a way to save my ass. The more and more I hear, the less and less I think it's possible...

More later. Promise.

Kureno crowed aloud at 05:37 p.m. --

Monday, October 20, 2003

Sonuvabitch. Okay. Stil no time to blog. But I need to blog now, or I'll go insane. Gee, this is starting to sound like LAST year, isn't it?

So lets see...Alex's surprise on friday night. That was cool, but the only surprise was that John was there. Apparently no one else we'd invited could make it. ah well. He was still happy. Got to meet Stephanie. She's cool. There was chemistry-ish stuff flying between her and Alex. Crazy stuff. Shit is going down in THAT department. More crazy stuff I really don't feel like writing about. Suffice to say, I'm regretting this strange and overpowering empathy of mine, as my poor heart breaks for him repetedly. -.-

I haven't been getting enough sleep. I can tell, because I'm having more and more trouble keeping a train of thoguht lately. Just now, I knew what I was writing about...but it's gone now. I'm sure it will come back to me later though.

Designed a new uniform for Kagome for the IY RPG. Rather, I did it conjointly with Ilana. we're such a bad combination... so like, THAT spawned in this being the uniform used in the AU!Crack fic that Eve started us on, and which has blwon into a huge collborative work. I made more sprites too. I'm getting better at that. So then, we tried to figure out how the HELL Kagome gets into highschool in the RPG verse. Ilana reached the brilliant conclusion that Kagome FAILS her highschool entrance exams... but Houjou, her stalker-- Erm, I mean suitor -- talks his father, the highschool's superintendant, into pulling some strings and admitting poor, Horribly ill Higurashi into the school. Imagien Kagome's surprise when she receives and acceptance letter from a school she never even applied to. XD I'll post the picture up here as soon as I can fidn the time to color it.

So...Yes... Life sucks sometimes. I've gone through this vicious cycle of enjoying my work, getting it done, taking a break for my sanity, falling behind, no longer CARING about the deadlines, having a breakdown...and then being struck with a ray of sunshine of absoulte, pure and simple LUCK of having the deadlines pushed back. However, I do have a busy week ahead of me...

Today:

• Finish rigging and texturing CG Character
• Finish the nine pages of character design sketches and 10 pages of perspective sketches in my sketchbook
• Do the final character drawings for my Model Sheet assignment for art class.

• Finish unwrapping the Elf figure, and start texturing it
• Take extensive notes on the CG review for Friday's midterm
• Finish the model sheet assignment and mount the final drawings
• Read Act II of Hamlet (or atleast the Spark Notes)
• Finish the Self-Directed Study and Artist Study assignment for Art Class

Wednesday:

• Build character body for CG
• Unwrap the Archer
• Finish Elf Texture
• See "Mystic River" for film class
• Write Film Reviews for the week.

Thursday:

• Finish unwrapping and start to Texture the Archer
• Finish modeling Character body for CG
• Go see "The Station Agent" for Film Class
• Write Report on The Station Agent
• Study for the CG midterm
• Get a Good Night's Sleep

Friday:

• Texture Archer
• Study for CG midterm
• Finish Texturing the Archer?
• Sketchbook Workd

That's my tenative plan for the week. If I follow that, I should be able to get caught up in most of my classes. I intend to spend a good portion of the weekend reading "The Illusion of Life" for the book report I ahve to write for film class. I spent 70-something dollars on it, I may as well actually read it, and get some class mileage out of it. Don't you agree?

Alright...it's 7:00. School closes in approximately three hours. I need to finish my rig, and then go home and do the sketch work. Baaah... Damn you school. If the industry is this bad, I think I'll re-think my career.

PS. Am officially PISSED at pitas.com. Their server crashed and lost nearly my entire months' worth of entries. ::fumes:: I'm moving to Diaryland.com as soon as I make my new layout.

Kureno crowed aloud at 07:03 p.m. --

Sunday, October 5, 2003

Okay. Time to slow down and write in the poor neglected blog, before I go absolutely insane.

Why is that whenever I stop writing for a week, that week ends up FILLED with SO MUCH to talk about, it's ridiculous? ::sighs:: Okay, so where to Start...

So, I had an overall bad week. Monday rolled around, and I was REALLY behind on Readign Dracula. (on a side note, I still am). So, class was pretty pointless. I went home, and tried to get Maya to install...but no luck. Wasted day. ::sigh::

Tuesday, my alarm didn't go off, so I woke up when I'm usually LEAVING for school. I did the super-quick version of getting dressed (throw on shirt, jeans, etc, brush teeth just enough to not have morning breath) and get out the door. Wouldn't you know it, Tuesday is garbage day... I live on a very narrow little private road. And of course, there's the GArbage truck...in the center of the road. And thye're picking up trash, by hand, because they spilled one of the cans. 20 minutes later, I'm FINALLY out on the road. needless to say, I was about 15 minutes late. And of course, I get to school, and realize I didn't get the file I needed on my way out. ::sigh:: atleats the day was partly redeemed ; I nearly finished one of my props for projects class.

Somewhere in there, Shirley broke up with Alex. Again. I think it was tuesday that he was thinking about flying to Puerto Rico, and Mom called and talked some sense into him. His situation got a LOT more complicated. Apaprently, she's been cheating on him, most likely throughout the relationship... Yeah, and she's a dirty little slut. -.- Poor Alex. He spent a night or two at Corey and Crystal's apartment... so Wednesday, I went to go pick him up and drive him home. We ended up sitting in the parking lot, talking for a while...apparently I was in someone's spot (realise that there WERE no visitor spots, and there were plenty of OTHER open spots in the lot, and the spot I normally park in, which belongs to the car-less corey and crystal, was taken.) and he wanted me to get out. So...I back out... and in this ridiculously tiny parking lot, when I'm LOOKING the whole time.. I back into a big ol' SUV. -.- I was a nervous WRECK after that. We're working on getting that sorted out right now. ::sigh::

Thursday, COULD have been better. It started out alright...but then it went downhill. I left my information for the people I backed into. They called and said it was goign to be 650 dollars to BUFF OUT AND REPAINT A BUMPER. There wasn't even a DENT! My mom had a DENT, BUFF, and REPAINT on her car once, and IT only cost 550. And that was with DENT repair. Realize I COULD have left without leaving the information. How DARE they try to overcharge me! Dad convinced them to get a second bid.

After that, everything kinda dissolves into a a blur. I Can't remember what happened when, but SOMEWHERE in there, I think it was thursday, I modeled my ENTIRE CG head assignment, which was supposed to be due friday. I also got a mni-couch that becomes a matress pad, for my room. ^_^ quite convenient. IT's a rather cute couch too... IT's a little too BLUE for my tastes, but I just covered it with a red throw blanket.

So it's Sunday... and Sunday is always busy. I need to finish the 35 pages of sketchbook I have left, and also finish unwrapping the UV's for my props. also, would be nice if I could get the basics of my Character model done. I'll probabaly end up staying after my literature class on monday and working the whole day on my projects stuff. Im slowly but surely catching up in some places... but I'm still behind in others.

I'm hoping to finish my Sango costume soon. I want to have it for Halloween. ^_^ Lats year, when I went as a hippie, eveyrone at my school thought I was supposed to be some girl form the Tekkin games. Kinda funny. Guess that's what you get for going to a school for a video game geeks.

Off to do skechbook. Ja!

Kureno crowed aloud at 01:29 p.m. --