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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.
Hidden Amongst Us
The future is here. Robots have, under our noses, become more advanced and complex, with some - albeit still rare and prohibitively expensive - able to be indistinguishable from humans. The fears over such things, while initially driven by panic and uncertainty, have passed and it was long since decided that for the sake of society's collective comfort, hiding the roles AI play was of paramount importance.
In this, they largely succeeded, but if you look closely, you can still spot them. They want to be noticed. They want to be seen.
Pick something you might use in your daily life - a vending machine, a coffee maker, your very own toilet - and allow the AI inhabiting it to shine through, allowing elements of its unique personality to pierce our protective veil of ignorance. Just don't be too obvious - there's a fine line between standing out a little and inciting panic, and no robot would want to risk decommissioning and disposal.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: Who Doesn't Love a Good Meal? >>>
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Michael Hampton's Gesture Course
Michael Hampton is one of my favourite figure drawing teachers, specifically because of how he approaches things from a basis of structure, which as you have probably noted from Drawabox, is a big priority for me. Gesture however is the opposite of structure however - they both exist at opposite ends of a spectrum, where structure promotes solidity and structure (and can on its own result in stiffness and rigidity), gesture focuses on motion and fluidity, which can result in things that are ephemeral, not quite feeling solid and stable.
With structure and spatial reasoning in his very bones, he still provides an excellent exploration of gesture, but in a visual language in something that we here appreciate greatly, and that's not something you can find everywhere.