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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.
Bardic Band
Congratulations! You, an aspiring musician, have been visited by Truck-kun, god of interdimensional travel. You find yourself in a world that is not your own, and all of your modern conveniences have been replaced with powerful magics and hard steel. While this certainly changes some of your future plans, you take it in stride. Instead of being consumed by the many things you can no longer do, you see great opportunity in a world that has never before heard the heart wrenching ballads of Freddie Mercury, the frantic fingers of Eddie Van Halen, or the brutal percussion of Mario Duplantier. You decide to do what you've always done - you start a band, and you're going to be a hit.
Design the tools you'll use to make your dream a reality. Fantasy instruments (whether versions of modern instruments, or something entirely different), accessories like magical amps, microphones, music halls with all the right acoustics, or the stage dressings and costumes to give your audience the greatest show they've ever seen.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: Safe Space >>>
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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.