For the most part I got too caught up in the grid-lines and this completely hampered my creativity. It was only when watching another artists process on a Youtube video (I have no idea what video or artist this was, so I apologize). That starting with a perspective grid wasn't the only way to go when drawing environments.
The artist I was watching said that they too, did not like beginning their drawing with a perspective grid. What they did instead was sketch out their initial idea, and then only come in with the perspective grid afterwards, to correct any mistakes or to make any alterations that would make the perspective stronger.
So, when going about doodling environments for this project I did so without a grid. I am using the grid now to go over my work and make sure the perspective works well. Working this way, still requires a knowledge of perspective as it requires having to figure out where the vanishing points in your illustration are and where the horizon is. Doing perspective this way, could almost be considered more difficult I imagine as, rather than starting with a good grid and working out, you are trying to fit a grid on top of an illustration that may have imperfect perspective.
Below are a couple of attempts I made at establishing where my grid should be before I decided on the one above:
As you can see, these were attempted with varying degrees of success.
What I finally realized I could do, and what I did to create my final version. Was look at my original image and see where I could draw in a 3D cube. Doing this gave me parallel lines which in turn gave me vanishing points. The perspective of the cube itself also made me realize that the perspective should probably be 3 point.
After sorting the perspective I went back in over the top of the image and altered a few lines to fit the image better in with the perspective.
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