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How to Draw a Dump Truck
Draw a dump truck 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, cab and frame.
Step 1: Nose, cab and frame
Start low left. Draw up a nose, over a tall round cab, then a long flat frame. Stop low right.
Tip The frame is a flat shelf, and the bed rests on it at the back.
Step 2: Belly and tyres
Start where you stopped. Draw an arch, a flat belly and a second arch, stopping at the nose. Add tyres.
Step 3: Big headlight eye
On the hood draw a big round headlight eye, nearly as big as a tyre. Add a black dot.
Step 4: Smile and bumper
Under the eye draw one U smile curling up to the nose. Add a cheek and a flat bumper bar.
Step 5: Window and handle
Start inside the windscreen. Draw a window following the cab shape, back to the start. Add a pillar and handle.
Step 6: Big dump bed
Draw a hinge circle on the frame's back corner. From it draw a big bucket, tipped up a little.
Step 7: Rim and ram
Just under the bed's top, rule a rim line from wall to wall. Add a short strut under the bed.
Step 8: Rocks in the bed
Along the top of the bed draw 3 round rocks peeping over, and one more piled on top.
Step 9: Road and shine
Start before the bumper and rule a road under both tyres, stopping past the back. Add a window shine.
Step 10: Yellow truck
Go over your lines. Colour the cab and frame yellow and the cheek pink. Leave the headlight eye white.
Step 11: Orange bed, grey bits
Colour the bed orange. Colour the bumper, handle, hinge, strut, rocks and hubs grey.
Step 12: Sky windows
Colour the windows sky blue.
Step 13: Black tyres
Colour the tyres black, going around the grey hubs. Add a black dot in the middle of each hub.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a dump truck, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
