TL;DR version: How do other artists think of scenes and positions for their characters? And are there any practice activities one can do to get better?

Explanation:
Ok, so I’m looking for some advice here. Essentially, I’m terrible at generating scenes and poses to draw. Like, it’s not like I can’t be creative. I can think up lore, world build, and then write full fledged stories with little to no basis. But if I have to draw a single scene, it can take me forever to think of something and it’s generally not very unique, and the camera positioning is bland.
Example being my deathclaw pic; https://e621.net/posts/774956?q=user%3ALamar
If it’s not one extreme though, it’s another. I was given a school artistic project to draw a poster and the teacher also told me to keep the style simple. To avoid boredom, I decided to try and make the scene interesting to make up for the style. So what I ended up doing was making a 5v10 gun fight in the center of a 4-way intersection. I then put the camera is at the center, on the ground, and with a fish-eyed lens that showed all directions. (Sky was in the center, bottom of the poster was right side up, top of the poster was upside down, ect.). It was confusing to draw and I’m unsure of the results. I'm even sure I ended up giving one of the characters a jojo-like pose because of some twisted logic about what she was doing at the time.

Question:
So how the heck are other artists able to crank out so many drawings? I’m sure it’s practice, but I’m not sure how to even start. Do people use a random scene generator? I’ve tried to program one of those once, but then school got in the way. Even then, a random scene generator can only get you so much. And it definitely doesn't handle the perspective.
Does anyone have any advice for someone who struggles to think of scenes and poses for their characters?

This isn’t even going over how I struggle with color choice so much that I just end up using my reference pictures by using the eye-dropper tool to snag color choices.

Many artists use real life photos as references for their poses, some even go as far as learning a bit of 3d animation to make their own pose references, if you are just starting, I wouldn't stress to much, the best is to try as many styles as possible and find one that suits you, in general, what makes a picture good looking is not the details and/or complexity of the linework, but the shading and lighting.
One of the best example I can think of is R-MK, while the design of his drawings might not be the most complex, the shading and coloring makes the characters look amazing.

Far as I'm aware, gesture sketches are the traditional way to improve your poses. These are usually with a very harsh time limit as well, to make sure you can't go into the details and just focus on the pose.

There's a couple of handy free websites that cycle through pictures with a (configurable) timer - I like this one (3D model) and this one (photos of people, animals, faces, hands, etc.). There's also this site with a funky colour-picking minigame that's supposed to make you better at recognizing colours, but I'm not sure how well it actually works.

azero said:
Many artists use real life photos as references for their poses

I imagine it works differently for different people but I have mixed feelings about furry art leaning too heavily on hard references, though my tastes are more on the trout_(artist) end of art. Understanding how everything fits together is a good base but I think it's preferable to build more of a loose internal library you can spin your own style outward from.

Just keep it tethered to its own set of rules, y'know?

Each artist has their way to learn things, when its about poses, what I basically do is look a lot of photos of people posing in different angles (or even other drawings) and draw them to save it into my head, so it's easier to make stuff out of the blue.

For backgrounds, I admit I get tired after drawing a character and then I have to draw a bg, so I try to make it as fast and less tedious as possible. I just search for room pics to take them as reference, thinking that is like, not the most important part in a porn pic most of times :p.

For scenes, I haven't heard anyone that uses a random scene generator xD, if you are in the mood to draw a full scene, You have to have your idea 100% clear before creating it if you want better results, again, reference pics will help as inspiration and if you have a good eye, you will notice some details such as how the and and position of elements affect everything. Usually movies has good reference shots for scenes.

TL;DR save references in your brain.

Hi, new to this site but I’ve been drawing for a long time..
Any who
Refs!!! Don’t be scared to look at photos of people, and using that. Don’t be scared to even model from your own body , especially if you have a pose in mind but can’t find the picture you want... many of times I’ve used my own hands just to get an idea for what I want..
I like to use even sims 3/4 poses! The mod community has a ton of NSFW poses if you wanna take a look! Some of my favorite ideas I’ve modified from sims 4 poses.