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How to Draw a Train Carriage

14 steps · Medium · about 11 min

Draw a train carriage in 14 easy steps, about 11 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 long body.

Step 1: The long body
Across the middle of your paper, draw one long box, more than twice as wide as tall.
Tip Leave room under it for the wheels.
Step 2: Rounded roof
Start at the box's top-right corner. Draw a low roof with round ends, and stop at the top-left corner.
Step 3: Three big windows
In the middle of the box, draw 3 big windows with round corners, a finger apart.
Step 4: Two doors
At each end of the box, draw a tall door with a small window in it.
Step 5: Two heads
In the first and last big window, draw a round head. Leave a gap under it.
Step 6: Shoulders
Under each head, draw a hill of shoulders. Start on the window's bottom edge and stop on that edge.
Tip The hill tucks in behind the head.
Step 7: Friendly faces
Give each passenger a fringe line from side to side, 2 dot eyes and a smile.
Tip Leave a tiny white shine in each eye.
Step 8: Frame and couplings
Under the box, draw a thin frame from end to end. Add a T-shaped coupling at each end.
Step 9: Bogie bars
Under the frame, near each end, draw a long thin bar with round ends.
Tip Each bar is a bogie: it holds 2 wheels.
Step 10: Wheels and rail
Behind each bar, draw 2 round wheels touching the frame. Draw a long rail under them, edge to edge.
Step 11: Peach and brown
Colour the faces peach, under the fringe. Colour the hair brown.
Step 12: Sky and yellow
Colour all the windows sky blue, around the passengers. Colour their shoulders yellow.
Step 13: Blue carriage
Colour the body blue, around the windows. Colour the 2 doors red, around their windows.
Step 14: Grey roof and wheels
Colour the roof, frame, couplings and bars dark grey. Colour the wheels light grey. Go over your lines.