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How to Draw a City Bus
Draw a city bus in 12 easy steps, about 9 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: long low body.
Step 1: Long low body
Start low on the left. Go up the front wall, over a long roof, down the back wall, and stop.
Tip The roof is the longest line you will draw today.
Step 2: Floor with wheel bumps
Start at the bottom. Draw the floor with a bump near each end, up to the back.
Step 3: Eye, smile and bumper
Low on the front wall draw a big eye. Under it draw a smile. Add a bumper at the corner.
Step 4: Two fat tyres
Under each bump draw a big circle tyre. Start at the floor, swing round, and finish back at the floor.
Step 5: Big windscreen
Start a finger in from the front wall. Draw a big window that follows the corner, back to the start.
Step 6: Four side windows
Leave a gap behind the windscreen for the door. Draw 4 chunky rounded windows in a row under the roof.
Step 7: Folding door
In the gap draw a tall door. Start level with the window tops, go down to the floor, across, up.
Step 8: Belt line and lights
Rule a line under the windows from front across to back, skipping the door. Add a sign and tail light.
Step 9: Hubcaps and road
In each tyre draw a smaller circle with a dot. Start in front, draw a road, stop behind.
Step 10: Yellow sign and light
Colour the sign and the tail light sunny yellow. The headlight, bumper, door and hubcaps stay white.
Step 11: White top, sky windows
Colour the top of the bus white, going round the windows. Colour all the glass sky blue.
Step 12: Blue bottom, black tyres
Go over your lines. Colour the bus blue from the belt line down. Tyres black.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a city bus, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
