Whether your preferred method of creativity is through art (traditional and/or digital), writing, music or any other form of expression, I'm sure at one point or another you've encountered the dreaded "creator's block", when you have the urge to create, but for some reason or another your brain just can't think of anything interesting.

I get in creative slumps a lot. I hate when I do, because the urge to create is there, but it seems like there is nothing to inspire me to actually get anything done. Sometimes, I'll sit and just stare at a blank page, hoping that SOME idea will come to me and I can put it on paper, but usually it takes a lot more than that to get the gears of creativity going.

Anyone else get into slumps where you can't seem to come up with ideas to express yourself or create anything? What do you do?

What works for me (sometimes) is just looking through all my old works, and seeing if there's anything I can draw from them to help me with what I want to do. I've never thrown out any of my old works, because I never know when they will be of some use to me in the future. Even if I think they're bad at the time, I keep them anyway. If I still can't come up with a decent idea, I'll just randomly sketch something, and see if anything comes from doing that.