I know that feel well! My first big mega story I worked on in middle school, I spent much more time drawing cool scenes way in the future than drawing the actual comic lmao. Most or all of them I shared online at the time though- I figured I both didn't have that many fans anyways and was just excited to share everything so it didn't matter too much~
In recent years I've only done relatively short projects so I haven't really done much spoiler art cuz there's... not much to spoil, I just get to that part naturally! The one exception is I hired a video editor to make a trailer for my comic, and ended up drawing a splash page like 40 away from where I was for the end of the video, and published that.
For my new series I've begun working on... I'll likely end up making some spoiler art sooner or later xD Heck even the character concept art I've posted to social media so far has... maybe not spoilers, per se, but definitely clues to what the series will be like >u> and especially the first chaapter or 2 lol
I draw and write .... ideas.. for scenes that I'm like... certain will happen, and then they might not xD
Like I had this idea and to pace it I just doodled it. But as the story currently stands, it seems very unlikely to actually happen.
https://www.deviantart.com/watashiveracasan/art/Left-351415800
I draw spoilery scenes all the time and shamelessly post most of them on Instagram; last inktober for example was about 50% spoilers. The key is to show scenes that still don't have context in the story, so probably no one can tell if it's an event that hasn't yet happened or just a random image. The only spoilers I don't show are specific character interactions, because they would be easy to connect with the current events in the story.
Also the covers I've drawn recently are filled with spoilers, but in a symbolic way. I hope that once the main conflict of the story is revealed, they will make sense.
Ha! Yesterday I literally posted a drawing to my Instagram with the caption "Hey look everyone it's a dead character". The character has yet to even be introduced in the comic.
I mean, so far I've posted drawings that show Norman with whip scars, Alise killing her step-father, Shilo's secret deceased mate, Tala pregnant with Shade's kits, the Queen with her arm ripped off by Alise, Norman getting his teeth forcefully sharpened as a kit, Alise holding her brother's dead body, and Mitch desperately trying to crawl his way out from purgatory as blood seeps from a bullet wound.
Needless to say, I draw and post what I see to be enjoyable. I mean, I'm a horror artist! You can't expect me to draw and post things that don't relate to character deaths or spoilers somehow. Also, I save the biggest and juiciest spoilers for the comic, so I guess all the other ones are just red herrings in a way.
idk I have fewer followers on my instagran where Ipost some art than in my actual comic - and most of them are online stors and boits. So I don't think I will spoil something - I bet most of my instafollowers don't read my comic. So I guess you won't spoil it untill you post it directly on episode, but it may also cause more engagement - readers would want to know how did the story get there
The cover for Errant actually spoils something I considered keeping secret for ages, which is what adult Sarin looks like. In the end, it was like... well, anyone could read the old comic Errant reboots or look at my old deviantart or my twitter images whatever and find images of what she looks like... so I was like... ah screw it, I don't want to leave her off the cover! So she's on there. SPOILER: SHE'S HOT AND GAY. (really though, was there any doubt Sarin would grow up to be hot and gay?).
Hell, in a way it was a spoiler that for months when we were in the prologue the thumbnail for the comic was adult Rekki before she'd appeared or got that haircolour or the giant sword.

Other things though I keep to myself and close friends, like spoilery images of certain pairings or dramatic events...
Honestly, since it's about the journey and not the destination, I allow myself little spoilers. For example, Mortimer wearing bandages around his hands in scenes where the gloves won't make sense, or all the imagery about out-of-control black magic, or characters that aren't appearing for a while, because they won't make sense right now anyway. And thankfully, for the more "oh my god I want to make this scene RIGHT NOW" stuff, my own messy schedule helps me, because there's always a fun meme, fanart, or study to make that's going to take my mind off of it.
Yeah all the time. I draw characters and talk about them before they even show up xD
Part of the issue is that many of these characters I've had for going on 10 years, way before I even started working on the comic officially.
┐( ˘_˘)┌ Oh well. How many people will actually stick around that long to see them come into fruition? I dunno. How many people will actually remember the spoiled characters? Probably not that many. Why worry about it?
It's funny, long before my story publicly got to the point, I drew two of its characters in some adult situations (which I only shared on Patreon, but still). I figured if anyone saw it and thought anything of it that it would be no more than a crack pairing. But lo and behold it's canon.
However, I can't bring myself to draw the end game because I think it's too plausible and I don't want to confirm anyone's suspicions ahead of time haha!