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How to Draw a Tanker Truck
Draw a tanker truck 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: tall flat-front cab.
Step 1: Tall flat-front cab
Start low on the left. Draw up, a short roof back, straight down, and back along the bottom.
Tip The cab is taller than it is wide.
Step 2: The long tank
Behind the cab, draw one long fat sausage on its side, round at both ends, as long as 3 cabs.
Step 3: Big headlight eye
Low on the front of the cab, draw a big round headlight. Add a black dot with 2 white shines.
Step 4: Frame, tyres and road
Under the tank, draw a flat frame bar. Add 3 tyres with hubs, one under the cab, and a road.
Step 5: Windscreen and door
Draw a big window up high. From under it, draw a door line down to the bottom. Add a handle.
Step 6: Smile and bumper
From under the eye, draw a bold U smile curling up to the front. Add a bumper.
Step 7: Tank rings and hatches
Draw 2 upright lines across the tank, from the top edge down to the bottom. Add a hump over each.
Step 8: Back ladder
At the back of the tank, draw 2 lines from the frame up to the top. Add 4 rungs.
Step 9: Sky window, pink cheek
Colour the window sky blue, leaving a shine white, and add a pink cheek. Leave the eye white.
Step 10: Stone tank, grey hubs
Colour the tank stone grey, leaving the hatches white. Colour the hubs and handle grey.
Step 11: Blue cab
Colour the cab blue, going around the window, eye, cheek and handle.
Step 12: Slate frame, black tyres
Go over your lines. Colour the frame and bumper slate, the tyres black around the hubs, and the dots black.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a tanker truck, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
