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Perspective Start to Finish: Spying From the Rafters
But what if I wanted to see more of her figure? I'd just pull the camera back. Now our camera lines show our heroine to be a little less than twice the apparent size of the boxers - which makes sense, since she's a little less than twice as close to the camera as they are.
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Now let's lay in a camera, and draw some lines radiating from it. These lines help ballpark our field of view (the edges of the panel), They also help us get relative sizes and angles correct. Two lines that frame our heroine's head take up half the ring by the time they get down there. This shows us her head will be half the size of the ring. And a line going from the camera passes through the standing boxer at about a 45 degree angle - that's handy to know, because that's the angle we'll see him at.
So let's take a stab, using the information we've pulled together in our elevation sketch. I don't need to follow positions slavishly, we can slide things around side to side and still benefit from our work above.
Okay, so we've got a possible layout. I threw in a spotlight next to our heroine, and we need to get enough of a gangplank/catwalk in there that the readers know where she is and that she isn't just floating in space.
I think I like the closer-in one better. This panel isn't about how cool and sexy the heroine is, it's about what's happening in the ring. But I like the figure arrangement in the second version better, so I'll use that.