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you sound like me... I work on stuff and get more done in long sprints than I do over long time spans.
At the same time it makes me run out of ideas more quickly, and makes current projects boring... this is related to modeling maps and map projects though. I've always had a good work flow when it comes to drawing, idk why.
What I do is push everything out as fast as I can, with a notepad time guidline for each part, if somethings not quite right, I leave it and go onto the next scheduled part. Then I give myself a day without even looking at it. When you reopen it a day later, you see all your errors and things much more clearly than you did when you first started.
Frankly I apply a lot of the stuff mentioned here in my concept arts. Though I would give the advice that if your out of ideas, look over some unfinished older work if you have it. I do that all the time with some of my older arts and lists of ideas, and I find I can reinvent some of my own ideas with a more experienced mind.
I also find reinventing the work sometimes spawns new ideas in a really nice chain reaction.
For completely fresh ideas though, I've got nothing that hasn't already been mentioned.
(Oh and hay guiz, haven't seen you in a while :D)
Thought I posted this earlier, but I must have accidentally closed the tab.
To fully explore your creativity, you must first have a solid foundation in your productivity tools so you can translate your ideas to a digital format.
Zeph hit the spot, you need to build a solid foundation first! It's kind of a looped cycle because I end up learning the tools during my creative bursts, wasting those bursts on learning the tools and producing nothing of interest. But I learned.
Then when the cycle of creativity begins again (which I'm getting REALLY good at controlling now, simple walk, or an event, party, social, and/or some damn good ambient music), the tools have already been established, and everything just flows. Maybe it's the synesthesia, but damn everything just feels lucid when I'm working on all 200 cylinders
Good advice, that's really true. Whenever I think of something cool, a lot of the times I say to myself "I have no idea how to do that" and move on. Not good. :/