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How to Draw a Pumpjack
Draw a pumpjack in 11 easy steps, about 8 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: the base.
Step 1: The base
Low on your paper draw a long flat block lying on the ground for the base.
Tip A pumpjack nods up and down all day, pumping oil from underground.
Step 2: The post
From the middle of the base draw a tall post, like a thin triangle with the tip cut off.
Step 3: The beam
Across the top of the post draw a long tilted bar, lower on the left, with a round pivot circle.
Step 4: Horse head
On the left end of the beam draw the horse head, a tall backwards D hanging mostly below the beam.
Step 5: Rod and wellhead
From the horse head draw a line down to a small bar, then a rod to a wellhead box.
Step 6: Crank wheel
On the right, near the base, draw a big crank wheel with a small circle inside. Add a motor box.
Step 7: Pitman arm
From the right end of the beam draw a thin arm straight down to the crank wheel.
Step 8: Ground
Draw a ground line under the base and the wellhead, from well left to well right.
Step 9: Grey motor and wellhead
Colour the motor, the wellhead, the rod, its little bar and the pivot grey.
Step 10: Red head and wheel
Colour the horse head red and the crank wheel red.
Step 11: Slate frame
Go over your lines, then colour the base, post, beam and arm slate grey, around the pivot. Nod, nod, nod!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a pumpjack, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
