wifihunters answered:

I justttt started up that piece again so hopefully i can show it soon but–

i actually learned point perspective at like. age 6 because i was tired of drawing cube houses during recess. obviously learning how to do that might be best, but i’m still shaky on putting people into perspective drawn settings, so i cheat a lot

photoshop has a transform > perspective tool that i used in that drawing. so first i drew up a vague floor plan:

the double lines are an outer wall i knew would block the view there entirely, so anything above that was only what was viewable through an archway.

I stuck orange markers in where i wanted the figures to be, keeping in mind that the three in front are children, and the three in back are mostly in vague silhouette.

now i used the transform > perspective tool to change the view to this

this picture was entirely symmetrical so i was ok with 1 point perspective. this gave me an idea though of where to vertically expand things to make this:

these two i only used perspective for sizing of figures and a vague concept of where ‘straight up’ might be in the first one

these i manually drew in the points to fit a very rough sketch underneath

my best advice is try to learn how vanishing points apply to like–non architecture, how a grid can help you even with a figure on a blank background. do i do it? nah. do i know i should more often? yes!!!!

in general i like to sketch things ‘flat’ within a box and then transform tool them to fit on a grid later