Vacant Sky Album Cover

An image made for the album cover for the oriinal soundtrack for act 3 of Vacant Sky, a really great freeware rpg you can find more info and downloads for over at

While the tone of the game is often quite dark, I was tasked with making a more chilled out, contemplative piece for this. Vacant Sky is interesting because it has a fairly modern setting, like Final Fantasy 7/8, and the heroine is essentially a very ordinary teenage girl, a bit of a geeky outsider who writes poetry in her room etc. who ends up being thrown into the role of epic heroine. Haha, it's nice to imagine that Auria gets the time to chill out and listen to some tunes and write terrible teenage poetry in-between being pursued by mysterious assassins and stuff!

The style is another experiment in digital painting. This time trying not to use too much transparency or lots of pure black or white (most of the dark shadows are actually dark blue, proving that I amazingly actually learned one useful thing from GCSE art) and really block in those colours. It's different from my usual more typical comic book line work, but it was a lot of fun!