>>4313506Let me preface with saying I'm /beg/ tier and to value my advice accordingly, but I also use this for ideas in writing, where I'd like to think I'm somewhere above /beg/ tier.
Talking purely about creative inspiration, I find when I'm feeling most uninspired is when I'm taking too much for granted. Feeling like you can't create anything original is a sort of creative tantrum. The possibilities are essentially infinite. I pick something mundane, like a dumb little animal, or a common plant, or a basic invention and think about their names, their variations, their fine details, events involving them in history, how they've inspired people. I do a little research to learn something new about them. I think about what history might not have recorded about them. It helps to fix the scope of your worldview and your appreciation of everything around it. It leaves me feeling pretty inspired and I get some new ideas out of it.
Drawn art-wise, a good first step other anons have suggested is drawing references from different angles. Moving past that, I suggest going hard on the imaginative aspect and creating chimeras of multiple references. People and animals work best. Create some kind of centaur combining references of a human and something that walks on more than two legs. The only original point will be how the references join, which is a focus and structured place to apply imagination. Once you're done you can try drawing that from different angles to get something pretty original from the source references. You can combine more than two, too. And it'll be more interesting to look back on than just straight reproductions of references.
