With some colored pencils and an eraser, you can use these five tutorials to better understand how to use perspective drawing in your artwork.

1. Scattered rocks: To start off simple, sketch some rocks of varying shapes and sizes. To play with perspective, make the rocks close to the foreground be larger than those farther back. Give further perspective definition via a horizontal line drawn across (but not through) the rocks to represent your horizon. Add color and values: Your rocks at the foreground will be more defined and saturated. Those toward the back will be fuzzier. This example represents the power of atmospheric perspective while using size and line drawing to employ some linear perspective principles.
2. Ascending castle: This example practices the single-point perspective. First, draw a horizontal line a quarter of the way up on your piece of paper. Toward the left, mark a small x on your horizontal line. Trace a 45-degree angle from that X toward the right, then sketch a three-tower castle below that line. The towers should ascend from small to medium to large the farther right you go with the tip of each tower meeting the 45-degree-angle line you drew.
3. Floating cubes: This next example also practices single-point perspective without the need for perspective grid paper or a computer grid. On your piece of paper, choose your vanishing point somewhere slightly off-center. Mark it with a dot, and draw about a dozen lightly visible, evenly spaced lines through that dot. End with a horizon line that goes through that same dot. Next, draw items shaped like cubes (gift boxes, books, dice) on your piece of paper with their edges touching the lines. Draw boxes of various sizes; to feature depth, objects drawn above the horizon line will have their bases visible while ones drawn below it will have their tops visible.
4. Sidewalk and cityscape: Sketching cityscapes make for easy two-point perspective exercises. Start by drawing a horizon line about a third the way up your drawing paper. Mark an X on opposite sides of your horizon; these will be your vanishing points. Then, from your left X draw a downward line at about a 15-degree angle. Do the same from your other marked X so that the lines drawn intersect to form a right angle. Where the two of the lines meet, create a street intersection. Along the edge of each street, draws rectangular prisms that resemble buildings whose edges align with the previously drawn lines.
5. Triangular tower: To play with multi-point perspective, first draw a horizon line toward the bottom of your sketchbook with an X on the far left and another on the right. Then place one X toward the top at the center. You should now have a triangle of X’s. Draw a line to connect the top X to the horizon, forming a perpendicular angle. Make two other dots to divide that centerline into thirds, then connect those dots to the left and right vanishing points. Then, place some equidistant dots to the left and right of the center point on the horizon line; connect those dots to the top of the center vanishing point. Repeat these steps at various points of elevations and on the horizon line to create panels like a criss-cross of bricks and windows on your emerging triangular tower. Add in shading to accentuate tower entrances and windows. You can even use watercolors to create a blue sky background and a red brick building where one facade’s side is brighter than the other because of the imagined position of the sun.

Perspective Drawing Explained: 5 Perspective Drawing Exercises