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How to Draw a Bus

13 steps · Medium · about 10 min

Draw a bus in 13 easy steps, about 10 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.

Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: headlight eye and hood.

Step 1: Headlight eye and hood
Left of the middle draw one big circle eye. Draw a big hood round it, like a backwards C.
Tip Leave the whole right side of the paper for the body.
Step 2: Cab, roof and floor
Start at the hood top. Draw up, a long roof, down the back, then the floor back to the hood.
Step 3: Big wheels and road
Under each bump draw a big circle tyre with a smaller circle inside. Draw a road line touching both tyres.
Step 4: Smile and brow
Start under the eye and draw a U smile, stopping inside the hood. Add a curved brow over the eye.
Step 5: Bumper
Across the front bottom corner of the hood draw a long rounded bumper, like a sausage.
Step 6: Windows and door
Inside the cab front draw a leaning windscreen. Then a tall door and 2 long windows with gaps between.
Tip Keep the tops of all the windows level.
Step 7: Panes and door lines
In each window and the door rule a line from top down to bottom. Add a cross bar and handle.
Tip Rule the door's cross bar level with the window bottoms.
Step 8: Black stripe
Under the windows rule 2 level lines a finger apart. Start at the hood and stop at the back wall.
Step 9: Roof lights
Draw a small half circle light on the roof near each end. Start and stop on the roof line.
Step 10: STOP sign
From the hood's back edge near the top, rule a short stub. Draw an 8-sided STOP sign on its end.
Step 11: Yellow bus
Colour the bus yellow, but not the windows, stripe, bumper or sign. Leave the eye white.
Step 12: Blue windows, red lights
Colour the windows sky blue. Colour the roof lights and the STOP sign red.
Step 13: Grey metal, black tyres
Colour the rims and bumper grey. Colour the stripe black, and the tyres black around the rims.