How do you not overcomplicate things with art?

How do you even make new things from scratch ?

How do you get inspiration

Is it better to have a story when making characters?

I'm just never sure what to do

I'm a writer first so I tend to write stories over drawing.

But I wanted to get into character concept... but I'm stuck in the details tbh?

One of my main methods was picking random songs to use for making characters sometimes it Dosent always work