For me, I don't do artwork until I either have something to say or an image comes to mind.  Then I wait for the motivation to get me to do it.  Hence why I have a few gaps in my portfolio of multiple years.  LOL

Right now I'm working on an image, I'm going to post the WIP that has me bloody frustrated because I can't get it the way I want.  I'm learning a lot of tricks of using primatives in better ways, but I'm still not happy. 

It's been rendering for 20 hours+ and this is still only a single source light. :c(  I don't want to imagine fuzzy anything.  God help me when I have to start adding mist.