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How to Draw a Truck and Trailer
Draw a truck and trailer 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: nose, hood and cab.
Step 1: Nose, hood and cab
Start low on the left. Go up the nose, along the hood, over the cab, along the bed. Stop low.
Tip Keep the truck on the left half of the page. The trailer needs the right half.
Step 2: Floor and wheel bumps
Start at the bottom front. Go along the floor, over 2 rainbow bumps, and up to the back wall.
Step 3: Eye and smile
Under the hood, near the front, draw a big headlight eye with a black dot. Add a smile under it.
Tip Leave a tiny white shine in the black dot.
Step 4: Two fat tyres
Under each bump, draw a big round tyre. Add a hubcap with a dot in the middle.
Tip Both tyres are the same size and their bottoms sit level.
Step 5: Two windows
Inside the cab, draw a windscreen that follows the round front corner. Behind it, add a door window.
Step 6: Door, bumper, light
From the cab's back corner draw a door line down. Stop at the floor. Add a bumper and tail light.
Step 7: Trailer box
Behind the truck, leave a gap and draw a long box. Give its bottom edge a rainbow bump.
Tip The bottom of the box is level with the truck's floor.
Step 8: Trailer wheel
Under the bump, draw a round tyre a little smaller than the truck's. Add a hubcap and a dot.
Step 9: Tow bar and hitch
Draw a hitch ball on the truck's back. Start at the ball, draw a thin bar, stop at the trailer.
Tip The bar is what pulls the trailer along.
Step 10: Planks and road
Draw 2 lines across the trailer to make 3 planks. Draw a long road under all 3 tyres.
Tip Make the 3 planks the same height.
Step 11: Sky windows, red light
Colour the 2 windows sky blue, leaving a slanted shine white. Colour the tail light red.
Step 12: Grey bar, brown trailer
Colour the tow bar and the hitch ball grey. Colour the 3 trailer planks brown.
Tip Leave the trailer tyre white for now.
Step 13: Green truck
Colour the truck green, around the eye, bumper, windows and tail light. Leave the eye and bumper white.
Step 14: Black tyres
Go over your lines. Colour all 3 tyres black around the white hubcaps. Your truck and trailer are done!
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a truck and trailer, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
