How to Draw a Tractor with a Trailer

Step 1: Nose, hood and cab

Start low on the left. Go over a nose, along a long hood, over a tall cab. Stop halfway down.

Tip Leave lots of room under the cab for a giant wheel.

Step 2: Arches and wheels

Start where you stopped. Draw a huge arch, a flat belly, a small arch, stopping at the nose. Add tyres.

Step 3: Headlight eye

On the nose, draw a big round headlight with a thick line. Colour a pupil, leaving 2 white shine dots.

Step 4: Smile and cheek

Start under the eye. Draw a short U smile forward and stop inside the nose. Add a cheek behind.

Step 5: Windows and shine

Start on the windscreen. Draw a slant up, an arch under the roof, down, and back to the start.

Tip Add 1 straight pillar to split the glass into 2 windows, and 1 short shine line.

Step 6: Smoke stack

Start on the hood by the windscreen. Draw a tall pipe up, round the top, back down to the hood.

Tip Add 3 round puffs floating up from the top, each bigger.

Step 7: Tyre treads

Around the big back tyre, draw 8 short lines pointing in from the edge, like clock marks.

Step 8: The trailer

Behind the tractor, draw a long box with 2 planks. Add a hitch bar and a wheel with a hub.

Step 9: Hay pile

Start on the trailer at the left. Draw soft hay bumps down to the right. Add 3 straw lines.

Step 10: The road

Start at the nose. Draw a road line touching all 3 tyres, stopping past the trailer.

Step 11: Grey stack, sky windows

Go over your lines. Colour the stack and puffs grey, and the windows sky blue.

Step 12: Green tractor

Colour the cheek pink, then the tractor and its arches green around the windows and cheek. Leave the headlight white.

Step 13: Brown trailer, yellow hay

Colour the hay and the hubs yellow, then the trailer and hitch brown.

Step 14: Grey tyres

Colour all 3 tyres dark grey around the yellow hubs.