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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.
Wild Dining
Plating and presentation is an integral step to fine dining - after all, how will the customers understand that what they're eating is so wonderful if it's not placed at the center of a far-too-big-plate and staged with a drizzle of some kind of slime and a sprig of greenery plucked from the side of a dusty road?
My uncultured disdain aside, so many dishes involve taking creatures and their varied bits, and arranging them in a pleasing fashion. Even your favourite, every-day baked goods are prepared to put their juiciest, most glistening foot forward - but what if that was just the way animals existed out in the wild?
Take a dish - your favourite dish, your most hated dish, or anything in between - and show us what it would look like as a complete creature out in the wild. Consider other animals and what they require - legs to move around, mouths to eat, and so forth - and arrange your dish to promise them a fruitful and productive life.
At least, until they're scooped up and served.
This one isn't doing it for you? How about this one instead: Designated Parking >>>
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Sketching: The Basics
A lot of folks have heard about Scott Robertson's "How to Draw" - it's basically a classic at this point, and deservedly so. It's also a book that a lot of people struggle with, for the simple reason that they expect it to be a manual or a lesson plan explaining, well... how to draw. It's a reasonable assumption, but I've found that book to be more of a reference book - like an encyclopedia for perspective problems, more useful to people who already have a good basis in perspective.
Sketching: The Basics is a far better choice for beginners. It's more digestible, and while it introduces a lot of similar concepts, it does so in a manner more suited to those earlier in their studies.