Keyhole
Illustration I did for a Xavier School creative writing class.
The brief was that it would serve as the starting point of an "Image Inspiration" exercise, where the students would look at an image and write a short story on the spot based on it. With no instructions other than that, I tried to keep the image general enough so that different stories could be written from it, while implying enough specificity and mood so the students would have something to latch on to. It could be sci-fi, it could be horror, it could be fantasy or a murder mystery--it's up to them.