Hey there!

Well uhh, if I’m being completely honest with you, a lot of my ideas come to me as hypnagogic hallucinations!
Hypnagogia happens when you’re falling asleep (most people get it as a sensation of falling or floating.)
I get that too, but I usually get visual hallucinations, and with my eyes closed I’ll just see a series of mashed-up images!
They usually take on characteristics of stuff I’m interested or were thinking about, so at the end of the day, its just
my brain making unconscious connections between stuff.

HOWEVER, most of my designs are just me taking in stuff I like and changing it with some kind of idea or motif??
Like the Furby Dragon, I love the long furby, which made me think of a lung dragon, so that was that.
and my Blanket Manta design came from how I used to drop a blanket on my friend’s kid and it glided like a manta?

The best way to come up with creative Designs is to actively pay attention to the world around you.
Notice how things work, and try to make connections to other things! Once you get the ball rolling, it Get easier and easier to
make those relations between say, animals and objects! You get into this awesome flow state, where the ideas don’t stop!

SORRY FOR THE LONG ANSWER,
I love taking to artists about their creative flow!!