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Having trouble coming up with something to draw? No worries - while you'll eventually learn how to start from a tiny seed of a thought and gradually nurture it into a complex concept to explore through design and illustration, it's perfectly fine not to be there just yet.
For now though, here's an idea that might interest you.
Brand Warfare
The Pepperidge Farm Gang hasn't forgotten all of the brave boys and girls who died in those days, those bitter years of war and treachery. Back then, when they caught you with your hand in the cookie jar, your hand stayed behind.
In a world where each of our favourite brands have taken the shape of gangs and other criminal enterprises, no slight nor insult is taken without a response. Weakness, like the crumbs at the bottom of the bag are devoured. It is a matter of survival.
Pick a brand, and design their gang. Try and incorporate their mascots, their slogans, or other marketing material, as you explore their leaders, their low level enforcers, their hideouts, or the businesses that suffer their “protection” whether they want it or not. Alternatively, you can illustrate conflict between them and their rivals - or even tell us a story of those few brave heroes who risk their lives to turn the whole system up on its head.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: As Old as Stone >>>
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Framed Ink
I'd been drawing as a hobby for a solid 10 years at least before I finally had the concept of composition explained to me by a friend.
Unlike the spatial reasoning we delve into here, where it's all about understanding the relationships between things in three dimensions, composition is all about understanding what you're drawing as it exists in two dimensions. It's about the silhouettes that are used to represent objects, without concern for what those objects are. It's all just shapes, how those shapes balance against one another, and how their arrangement encourages the viewer's eye to follow a specific path. When it comes to illustration, composition is extremely important, and coming to understand it fundamentally changed how I approached my own work.
Marcos Mateu-Mestre's Framed Ink is among the best books out there on explaining composition, and how to think through the way in which you lay out your work.
Illustration is, at its core, storytelling, and understanding composition will arm you with the tools you'll need to tell stories that occur across a span of time, within the confines of a single frame.