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How to Draw a Car Wash
Draw a car wash 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: nose, roof and boot.
Step 1: Nose, roof and boot
Start low left. Go round a nose, along the bonnet, over a big dome and boot bump. Stop low right.
Tip One smooth stroke, no kinks: bonnet low, dome high, boot small.
Step 2: Belly, arches and tyres
Start where you stopped. Draw an arch, a flat belly, another arch, stop at the nose. Add 2 tyres.
Tip Tyres hang under the arches with a little air; hubs are half as wide.
Step 3: Headlight eye and smile
Draw a round headlight eye on the bonnet. Under it, draw a small U smile, narrower than the eye.
Tip Give the eye a black pupil and 2 white shines, with a ring of body all round.
Step 4: Windows and pillars
Start above the bonnet. Draw a big window inside the dome, back to the start. Add 2 pillars splitting it.
Tip Keep a strip of body between the window and the dome.
Step 5: Door and bumper
From the back pillar, draw a door line down to the arch. Add a handle, tail light and nose bumper.
Tip The bumper starts on the nose and stops back on the nose.
Step 6: Road and shine
Draw one long straight road line under both tyres. Add a shine dash in the windscreen.
Step 7: The wash arch
Around the car, draw a big square doorway frame from the road, up, over and down. Add an inner line.
Tip It is the car wash tunnel seen from the side.
Step 8: Two spinning brushes
Hang 2 rods from the beam, one each end. Give each a tall fluffy brush with bumpy sides.
Tip Each rod starts on the beam and runs down the middle to the bottom of its brush.
Step 9: Bubbles and drops
Above the car, draw 4 soap bubbles of different sizes, and 3 little water drops falling from the beam.
Step 10: Sky windows, yellow lights
Colour the windows sky blue, leaving the shine white. Colour the headlight and tail light yellow, keeping the pupil black.
Step 11: Blue brushes, water drops
Colour both brushes and the water drops blue. Leave the bubbles white.
Step 12: Colour the car red
Colour a pink cheek behind the eye. Colour the body red around the windows, lights, handle and cheek.
Step 13: Grey bits, black tyres
Go over your lines. Colour the hubs, bumper, handle and big frame grey, then the tyres black around the hubs.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a car wash, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
