How to Draw a Tractor

Step 1: Nose, hood and cab

Start low left. Go up round a boxy 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: Fender, belly and wheels

From the cab draw a rainbow fender, a flat belly, a small arch. Stop at the nose. Add 2 wheels.

Tip Both fender feet touch the giant back tyre. The front tyre hangs inside its arch.

Step 3: Big headlight eye

On the nose draw a big round headlight eye. Add a pupil, a little low and back, with a shine.

Tip Keep air all round the eye: it never touches the hood or the nose.

Step 4: Smile and cheek

Under the eye draw one short U smile curling up toward the nose. Add a small oval cheek behind it.

Tip One smooth short smile, no wiggles, all inside the nose.

Step 5: Windows and pillar

Start above the hood. Draw a big window inside the cab, back to the start. Add a pillar down it.

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

Step 6: Exhaust stack

From the hood draw a tall trumpet stack up and back down to the hood. Add 3 puffs floating up.

Tip The stack is as tall as the cab. Each puff is a little bigger.

Step 7: Treads and hub dots

Draw 8 short lines in from the big tyre's edge, spaced like a clock. Put a dot in each hub.

Step 8: Road and shine

From the nose draw a straight road line under both tyres, stopping behind the big tyre. Add a windscreen shine.

Step 9: Grey stack, sky windows

Colour the stack and puffs grey, and the windows sky blue, leaving the shine white.

Step 10: Colour the tractor green

Colour the cheek pink. Colour the tractor and fender green around the cheek and windows. Leave the headlight white.

Step 11: Yellow hubs, grey tyres

Colour the hubs yellow, then both tyres dark grey around them.