How to Draw a Semi Truck

Step 1: Nose, cab and frame

Start low left. Go round a stubby nose, over a tall cab, along a short frame, and stop low right.

Tip The hood is short. The frame is a flat shelf for the trailer.

Step 2: Arches and tyres

From where you stopped, draw 2 arches with a flat belly between, to the nose. Tuck a tyre into each.

Tip Each tyre starts and stops at the ends of its arch. Add a hub circle with a dot.

Step 3: Big headlight eye

On the hood, draw a big round headlight eye. Add a pupil looking forward, with a white shine.

Step 4: Long box trailer

A finger behind the cab, draw a long box trailer resting on the frame. Rule a stripe along it.

Tip Make it about twice as long as the cab, and a little taller.

Step 5: Smile and cheek

Under the eye, draw a bold U smile up to the nose. Add an oval cheek behind the eye.

Step 6: Front bumper

At the bottom of the nose, draw a small rounded bumper poking out in front.

Step 7: Window and handle

Draw a window in the cab. Add a pillar from top down to bottom, a shine and a door handle.

Tip Keep a strip of cab between the window and the outline.

Step 8: Trailer tyres

Under the back of the trailer, draw a long mudguard. Tuck 2 tyres with hubs under it, side by side.

Step 9: Exhaust stack

In the gap, draw a thin stack from the frame, stopping above the roof. Put a cap on top.

Step 10: The road

Start under the bumper. Rule one straight road line under all 4 tyres, and stop at the trailer's back.

Step 11: Sky windows, yellow light

Colour the windscreen and side window sky blue, leaving the shine white. Colour the headlight yellow, keeping the pupil black.

Step 12: Cream trailer, grey bits

Colour the trailer cream. Colour the bumper, handle, mudguard, stack and hubs grey.

Step 13: Colour the cab red

Colour the cheek pink. Colour the cab and frame red, around the windows, headlight, handle and cheek.

Step 14: Black tyres

Go over your lines. Colour all 4 tyres black, around the grey hubs.