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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.
Fight to the Death
Pick an animal, then pick a trait or feature or quality and mush them together. Then do it again - and make them fight! For example, Tuskbear vs Longshark! Remember that the vast majority of your design is going to be based on existing animals - so make sure you use lots of reference! You may think you know what a familiar animal looks like, but I assure you that you are wrong, your memory is wrong, and you will not survive the winter.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: Like Clowns in a Bank >>>
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Rapid Viz
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.