Mmm, yes. Quite so.

exaggeration of things like that can be really good to get your point across. especially for people reading on release that haven't necessarily looked at the precious spacing in a couple days.

I still don't think you exaggerated it nearly enough. think of it like a cartoon, if you want to show her backing away, then have her press against the wall, or all the way down an alley, or maybe some little motion cues like step step step leading backwards. ooh, or you could try the manga thing where they just have like shock lines outlining where they just were.

don't worry about physical logic being grounded, and don't try to by visually subtle. if you have a visual point to make it's usually better to make it almost painfully obvious. slap the reader with it to make sure they get it.

What about making the panel more zoomed out? Would that make it harder or easier to draw than using perspective?

They're members of the Xanathar's Guild in Waterdeep (the yellow accessories are a mark of this!) - so yes... they sort of did go to robber college.

Bad news on that front... :( These are from my archive, I draw about one every two weeks normally.

Smartest mugger in the history of D&D.

Gives some real Sword Art Online Abridged vibes.

(If you want to catch up, there's links back under the image)

TLDR: Konsi and Razira decided they wanted to go somewhere quieter, so they decided to ditch the rest of the party, but in order to sneak away they went into the washroom at the back of the Tavern. (Toron has scoped the place out and knows there's no back exit.) - Konsi then polymorphed Razira into a rabbit so she'd be small enough to ride along with a casting of Dimension Door.