How to Draw a Pickup Truck

Step 1: Nose, hood and cab

Start low left. Go up the nose, along the hood, over the cab, along the bed. Stop low right.

Tip The hood and the bed are level; only the cab stands up tall.

Step 2: Floor and wheel bumps

Start at the bottom front. Go along the floor, over 2 big rainbow bumps, and up to the back wall.

Step 3: Eye and smile

Under the hood, near the front, draw a big headlight eye with a black dot. Add a smile under it.

Step 4: Pill bumper

At the bottom front corner, draw a pill bumper that pokes out past the nose.

Step 5: Two fat tyres

Under each bump, draw a big tyre with a ring of air above it. Add a hubcap with a dot.

Tip Each tyre is almost half as tall as the truck; both bottoms sit level.

Step 6: Two windows

Inside the cab, draw a big windscreen that follows the round front corner. Behind it, add a door window.

Step 7: The window line

Start at the back of the cab. Draw a straight line forward under the windows, stopping where the hood starts.

Step 8: Seam and tail light

From the back of the cab, draw a seam down to the floor. Add a handle and a tail light.

Step 9: Crates in the bed

From the rail behind the cab, draw a crate up, across, and down to the rail. Add a smaller one.

Tip Both crates stand on the rail; rule a plank line across each.

Step 10: The road

Under both tyres, draw one long straight road line, starting before the bumper and stopping past the back.

Step 11: Sky windows, yellow light

Colour the windows sky blue, leaving a slanted shine white. Colour the tail light yellow.

Step 12: Brown crates

Colour the crates brown, leaving the plank lines. Leave the eye, bumper, handle and hubcaps white.

Step 13: Green truck, black tyres

Go over your lines. Colour the truck green around the eye, bumper, windows, crates and light. Colour the tyres black.