When trying to come with new ideas for your pottery, here’s one way.  Look through ceramic publications, watch videos of other makers and find a pot that inspires you.  Now make a sketch of that pot, not sketch ten variations of that pot changing proportions, different types of rim, with without a foot, more details, removing details etc… Then pick out three of your favorites and do five to ten variations of those pots. I find more is better and I circle the ones I use for my variation.  Then I pick three of my favorites from those and make a list of what I like best from each one and make ten more sketches using some of all of those elements.  You now have about fifty ideas that are of your own designs save all the sketches for future reference.  I have a file on the computer just label ideas and categorized by type of pot.