i guess thats what i have been going through as well, and art block, and a big one at that. i have lost my drive to draw a long time ago, back in 2008, and i have yet to figure out how to get it back. if you managed to break free of this art block, please let me know how.

I don't think I've had it as bad as you've apparently had. There is probably not a catch all solution, as everyone's motivations and drives are a little different. Mine seems to fall along the lines of. I've got time to draw X image and I intellectually want to draw, but when I sit down at the screen or tablet in all official drawing mode I get nothing. Either the image doesn't coalesce in my head or no line goes where I want it to. The only way I've found to force motivation to return is just to start doodling without an idea in mind. Just lines on paper swirling and making patterns then the moment something pops into my head I start incorporating that into the doodle. Then after a little bit of that I'll start drawing hands, tails, or faces without head boundaries. It doesn't always work, but staring at blank paper willing it to happen doesn't work at all.

That's how this one started. It was just angry eyes then I put angry mouth under it, and then his body flowed from there. The rest of the image shaped from the mood I was in. Block to me feels like this incredibly hard, immovable barrier between inspiration and effect and I was pissed at it. My normal process is 'image springs into mind, and then I try to reproduce it'. This one was backwards in that I had no inkling of making a dragon bashing a rock. That idea formed about half way through. I needed something to be angry at in the image, and I was all "Screw you art block, you suck!".

Posting helps a little too. As I was drawing this I started getting grander ideas of color, putting the block on a pedestal so I could render in his legs, changing the mallet to something more wicked looking, and breaking out some of my reference material to get his arms and head right. I could spend a lot more time on this and clean it up, but that kinda brings the stress back and I didn't really want to draw this. That would turn this into another project to throw into the que that I haven't gotten done yet, and while I really wanted to work on project X over there this thing is going to bug me until I do something with it. Now sometimes that works out as two of the large projects I've got going right now started from random doodle inspiration. However, if I just post it I sometimes feel relieved and some sense of accomplishment even though it's still really sketchy. I no longer feel obligated to work on it. I guess that's the first good reason I've seen to have a scraps folder.

Speed drawing helps a little too. My one and only art class introduced me to it. You take an image, object, person, whatever and spend a very short period of time drawing it. Thirty seconds, five minutes, one minute, times along those lines. It's considered a warm up exercise and it does kinda help. This page here has some of those exercises http://www.posemaniacs.com/ but you could do it with anything really. When I first tried it it was incredibly hard and aggravating because when times was up I had nothing but five lines, but after the first hour I started getting into it and started seeing some results.

I'll add this too even if it might be a little TMI. When I'm horny I tend to draw better and faster.

Good luck.

I believe I understand now. I stopped drawing ever since I graduated high school, and I run into the same problem you do, I get all prepared with my paper and everything, then I just freeze, as if I forgot what happens next. And I think i found a solution, or at least I hope I have. ever since I got into the fandom and such, I wanted company, and even before I got here, and I seem to be 90% less motivated to do anything at all when I'm alone, even simple things such as eating. So I guess that would be my solution, but the theory was to obtain something that motivates you, inspires you. I guess that would be a great help.

Good luck to you as well man.

PS. Don't be embarrassed, I do better stuff when I'm horny as well ;3

Maybe I asked you this before, in chat, but I'm going to ask again here, now, in comments, so it stays here:

Is he behind the block, and he's about to smash it..? Or is he part of the block, like he himself is a half-finished sculpture, he is the art trying to speed up his own creation? O: He looks like a gargoyle, so it fits! It's also probably just you in your dragon form being frustrated, though.

Actually that half finished self sculpting idea is pretty neat. But no, I'm supposed to be behind it, breaking the darn thing. Wow, I remember this period too.

Yeah there is probably a little Gargoyle influence in there. Especially in the wings. Because those Disney Gargoyles were just so cool. But I got smoke coming out of my nose so I'm all dragonish. Grrrrr.

Yeah, I noticed the smoke and realized it was all dragony a bit too late, on my gargoyle comment (or after it, I should say >_> )

I totally thought he was breaking himself out of his own block-bottom all this time, though, yesss. I think it's a bit of a duality, in that he wants to break it, but brute force will perhaps be unhealthy.. because with him, he's not going to be very nicely sculpted below the waist.